RV SVEA

Owned by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and operated by the Swedish Maritime Administration, R/V Svea has the classifications Special Purpose Ship, Silent ship ICES 209, Sea Area A, Ice-class 1B, and equipped with dynamic positioning. It supports a wide range of multidisciplinary scientific research, including bottom and pelagic trawl fishery. RV Svea has an endurance of approximately 16 days at sea.

69.5 m

Length

15.8 m

Width

5.4 m

Draft (max)

3148

Gross Tonnage

Area of operation

SWERVE voyages on Svea is possible in the North Atlantic and polar regions in summer time

Main operation area is the Greater North Sea and the Baltic

Availability and opportunities

View the Svea annual schedule here.

You can apply for SWERVE voyages on Svea for June (weeks 24,25 and 27) and in October – November (weeks 43-45).

Voyages undertaking research in all marine disciplines are possible on Svea and we will accept applications for single research-groups but we encourages shared voyages and collaboration between groups as Svea is manned and operatinable day and night.You may also ask to join a regular survey, and we will try our best to host you depending on space, available time, resources and willingness by the expedition owner i.e., so called piggybacking.

Built-in Scientific Equipment

USBL positioning: Kongsberg HiPAP
Ferrybox
CTD Rosette
Fish finding sonars
Scientific broadband echosounder: EK80
Multibeam: Kongsberg EM 2040, Simrad ME70 and MS70
Subbottom profiler: Topas PS40
ADCP (600 and 150 kHz)

Outside/Work Deck Capabilities

Oceanographic and multipurpose with fibre connection: 1500m (CTD rosette), 3000m and 300m
Trawl winches and netdrums etc.
Plankton winch: 1500m
Multipurpose synthetic: 1500m
A-frame: 8 t, 8 m SWL
2 large knuckle bom cranes

Accommodation + Laboratory Facilities

Chemical/oceanography lab
Fish lab
Wet lab: microspcopy etc.
CTD hangar
Operation center
Flex lab – sediment processing etc
Cabins: 24 single and 4 double

Contact

Björn Lindell – Ship Coordinator, RV Svea

Phone

073-08 69 886

bjorn.lindell@slu.se