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”.