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Largest in this registry
#56,878
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#245
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Anuanua Moana ("Rainbow of the Sea") is a research vessel registered in the Cook Islands. It is operated by Moana Minerals and used for conducting surveys for Deep sea mining.
The ship was previously known as the VOS Satisfaction and previously operated as a subsea support vessel to support underwater diving- and ROV-operations as well as some salvage projects. In 2022 it was modified to provide space for scientists as well as lifting and sonar gear.
The ship arrived in the Cook Islands in February 2023. It was named in March 2023 after a public competition. It began its first survey expedition in March 2023. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown accompanied the ship for the first stage of its voyage, mapping the seabed from Rarotonga to the Nga-Pu-Toru before docking in Aitutaki.
In November 2023 it began an expedition to explore the seabed between Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 2,163 gross tons, IMO 9352224 is the 56,878th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 2.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 245th by tonnage — larger than 49% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Cook Islands is the country of registry for 193 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9352224 is the 115th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (94 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,988 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cook Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 research / surveys flying the Cook Islands flag, of which none is larger than IMO 9352224.
IMO 9352224 was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 1,848th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 12 vessels to ABG Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 5,656 GT, delivered between 1998 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 61.0 m overall, IMO 9352224 is 10.0 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 15.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9352224 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9352224, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 2×2 = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among research / surveys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| NOAAS Oscar Dyson (R 224) | 2003 | 2,180 |
| Izyskatel 3 | — | 2,165 |
| Thorbjorn | 1980 | 2,164 |
| IMO 9352224 (this ship) | 2007 | 2,163 |
| Mirabilis | 2012 | 2,131 |
| HNLMS Luymes | 2004 | 2,091 |
| HNLMS Snellius |
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Anuanua Moana on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy IdiotSavant, reused under CC0.
| 2003 |
| 2,091 |