The world’s most expensive marine research vessel

The NVC 395 POLAR vessel will be outfitted to cover a wide range of marine research operations, such as monitoring fishing stocks, metreological studies, sea floor sampling and mapping, a press release from the ship’s designers, the Rolls-Royce company, reads.

The almost 100 meter long vessel will have the North and South Poles as priority areas. The vessel will have icebreaking capacities, helicopter landing space and a so-called moonpool for diving operations.

The vessel will be the biggest marine research vessel in the world, newspaper Fiskeribladetfiskaren reprots. Construction has not yet been started.