The photo below shows Neptune, a survey vessel doing wind farm related work. It was first posted here in late July 2019.
As of Monday morning, this vessel has been anchored in Gravesend for over 24 hours. Previously she was Neptune with that wilder paint job. EGS loosely expands to “earth sciences & surveying” and a little bit of Latin will get you to ventus as wind, a fitting name for this heavily equipped and much renamed vessel that started out as an ice class fishing trawler way back in 1977. From what I can tell, she fished until 2008. Now she’s contributing to the most thorough surveying of the New York Bight and surrounding waters to the east that has ever been done. I’d love to see some of the bathymetric images she and other exotics have generated in the past few years.
Fleetmate RV Ridley Scott sailed into the sixth boro a bit less than a year ago.
All photos, WVD.
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March 8, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Cameron Simmons
Hi Will, do you know if any of these survey vessels are American flag vessels? I read somewhere that all of the Wind Farm work would use Jones Act American crewed vessels.
March 8, 2021 at 5:51 pm
tugster
Great question. Egs Ventus is Marshall Islands flagged, and I believe all the other EGS vessels are foreign flagged as well. Interestingly, one of their Vanuatu-flagged boats is Bold Explorer http://www.egssurvey.com/images/Vessels/BOLD%20EXPLORER_Specs_Rev1.pdf. It was built in the US in 1989 as USNS Vigorous, and it appeared on this blog as an EPA vessel called Bold: https://tugster.wordpress.com/category/epa-vessels/ So with these vessels, waivers are granted. Maybe someone else can add to this.