- Role
- Survey equipment
{{short description|Type of research vessel}}{{Unreferenced|date=November 2008}}A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping. It is a type of research vessel. RoleThe task of survey vessels is to map the bottom, benthic zone, full water column, and surface for the purpose of: - hydrography
- general oceanography
- marine habitats
- salvage
- dredging
- marine archaeology
Survey equipmentTypically, modern survey vessels are equipped with one or more of the following equipment: - GPS positioning and logging
- single beam sonar
- multibeam sonar
- Side-scan sonar
- towed magnetometer
- subsurface profiler
- grab sampler
- bottom coring device
- DCHP
- CTD
- Inertial Measurement Unit
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