The Research Vessel Atlantis II was named after the first research vessel used by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Atlantis. Designed by the Bethlehem Steel Company''s Central Technical Dept., Shipbuilding Division, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Design associate was M. Rosenblatt and Son of New York City. She was built by the Maryland Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, Maryland under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Atlantis II has worked in all disciplines traveling the world''s oceans in all weather, from the fringe ice of both poles to the equatorial tropics. In recent years the ship has been engaged in extensive geological and geophysical studies in the Atlantic and Pacific. In 1979 the ship underwent a major refit including installation of the twin EMD diesel engines, which helped to lower her operating costs and increase her range and selection of ports. Perhaps the most famous endeavor she has ever taken on was to be used by Robert Ballard to locate and explore the Titanic. Another time, the ship was used to make an IMAX film about the many unusual secrets of the deep sea such as hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the unusual marine life that surrounds them. The ship has sailed over a million miles for the purpose of geophysic al research and increasing our knowledge about the world around us.
Life Rafts for 200 Persons
Rescue Boat
Rocket Line Throwing Apparatus X 2
61 Fire Extinguishers
CO2 Coverage for the engine room, machinery spaces, and Galley
Sarts X 2
Parachute Flares X 12
EPIRB X 1
Vessel is certified for 70 total passengers,in 32 state rooms for crew and guest, Most containing private heads and showers.
Conference Room
Lounge with bar and flat screen tv (42'')
Full medical facilities
Commercial galley
Dining room with sitting for 30
Laundry facilities
Full machiny shop
Welding facilities
Anchor windlass forward (rebuilt)
Bitts and chaulks
Aft crane 20 ton
Hydraulic motors and pumps still installed for "A" frame
