Research Vessel Gyre

TDI-Brooks has over 25 years of vessel chartering and management experience. The RV Gyre is outfitted with a Kongsberg EM 304 MK1 multibeam (MBES) echosounder capable of high resoluton seabed mapping from 10 meters to more than 11,000 meters.

The Gyre has executed numerous offshore Surface Geochemical “Seep Hunting” Exploration (SGE) and Heat Flow programs for the world’s leading petroleum producers. The Gyre is also capable of performing deepwater geotechnical coring including 20 meter Jumbo Piston cores (JPC), 40 meter CPT-Stinger acquisition. Other capabilities include environmental assessments, metocean, heat flow and environmental baseline studies (EBS).

This vessel is well suited for the following applications:

Seabed Geochemical “Seep-Hunting” (SGE)
Seabed Heat Flow Surveys (HF)
Seabed Geotechnical Coring and Measurements
2DHR Seismic Multi Channel Geophysical Site Surveys
Pipeline Damage Assessments and
Inspection
Offshore Cable Route Surveys

The R/V Gyre is equipped with satellite communications (phone and internet access), differential GPS, two heavy-duty hydraulically-actuated A-Frames with high-speed winches for geotechnical coring work.

Our field services are supplemented by high quality environmental and geotechnical laboratories with a staff of nearly one-hundred individuals including fourteen Ph.D. level oceanographers, geochemists, biologists and geologists.

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Principal Specifications

R/V Gyre Deck Layouts

Registration

Operator	TDI-Brooks International, Inc.
MMSI	577275000
Registry	Vanuatu, Port Vila
Home Port	Freeport, TX
Radio Call Sign	YJYX5

Certifications

TDI-Brooks has over 20 years of vessel chartering and management experience and currently operates four research vessels, Gyre, Brooks McCall, Miss Emma McCall and Proteus. These are multi-use vessels suited for a wide variety of oceanographic research duties.

The TDI-Brooks fleet is operated within a robust Safety Management System and all vessels are regularly vetted by client marine assurance groups and a part of the OCIMF Offshore Vessel Inspection Database (OVID).

You can find the various certifications for the R/V Gyre below: