{"id":103955,"date":"2025-09-10T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=103955"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:12:44","slug":"r-v-endeavor-to-be-retired-after-50-years-700-scientific-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/r-v-endeavor-to-be-retired-after-50-years-700-scientific-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/V Endeavor to be retired after 50 years, 700+ scientific missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After nearly 50 years of continuous operation, the Research Vessel Endeavor will be retired from service upon completion of its final mission on Sept. 20. Owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/\">Graduate School of Oceanography<\/a> under a Charter Party Agreement, the ship was first launched in 1975. Over the course of its career, the R\/V Endeavor brought thousands of scientists, engineers, technicians, students, and teachers on more than 700 expeditions and traversed more than one million miles in support of science, with each voyage adding to its legacy.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some of the Endeavor\u2019s historic milestones and impactful missions are <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/7927ba17a60e454083cc4d7fd36e77fd\">chronicled here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FACTS:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Here are some facts and figures about the <em>R\/V Endeavor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Number of scientific expeditions supported: 736<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of days at sea: 9,600<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of scientists on board: 8,096<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of countries visited (port stops):&nbsp;22 &#8211; Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, Barbados, Haiti, Canada, Iceland, Norway, France, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Monaco, Greece, Ukraine, Senegal, Namibia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deepest instrument deployment:&nbsp;8,700 meters depth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Longest expedition:&nbsp;38 days<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of miles sailed: 1,030,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/marineops.gso.uri.edu\/溏心vlog免费B站?SectionId=Specifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">basic facts and figures<\/a> about the <em>Endeavor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TOURS:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Tours of the <em>R\/V<\/em> <em>Endeavor<\/em> will be held on Oct. 4-5, with limited availability for members of the media and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/rv-endeavor-public-tours-registration-1640838896309?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Reserve a spot on a tour<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>INTERVIEWS:<\/strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few members of the marine operations team are available for media interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Erich Gruebel,&nbsp;manager, Narragansett Bay Campus Marine Scientific Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brendan Thornton, port captain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tom Glennon, assistant port engineer and former director of marine operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To schedule interviews or for more information, contact: Peter Hanlon, 溏心vlog免费B站 GSO Public Engagement, 401-874-6397, <\/em><a href=\"mailto:peterhanlon@uri.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>peterhanlon@uri.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After nearly 50 years of continuous operation, the Research Vessel Endeavor will be retired from service upon completion of its final mission on Sept. 20. Owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography under a Charter Party Agreement, the ship was first launched in 1975. Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1848,2],"tags":[127,1905],"class_list":["post-103955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advisories","category-archives","tag-graduate-school-of-oceanography","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103957,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions\/103957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}