Main parameters:
Length overall: 99.6 metres
Moulded breadth: 17.8 metres
Designed displacement: 4,864 tons
Designed draft: 5.6 metres
Maximum speed: 15 knots
Number of staffs: 80 persons
Self-sustaining capacity: 60 days
Range: 15,000 nautical miles
The “Science” research ship is China’s most advanced and world-leading research ship, and equipped with seven major shipborne scientific survey and test systems. The shipborne test system is designed according to international standards, and divided into general laboratory and professional laboratory, with the capacity of simultaneous site sampling, test and analysis, and is called a marine “mobile laboratory”.