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| The Nimitz Marine Facility, which is the
support and management center for the Scripps fleet of research vessels
and platform, is one of the largest and most completely outfitted operating
bases at any oceanographic institution. Located on 5.7 acres of land on
Point Loma, the 110-meter finger pier and 85-meter quay wall can accommodate
5 ships and the platform FLIP,
and as many as 7 ships doubled up. The piers afford a complete suite of
utilities connections for vessels. The marine facility serves as home port
for the NOAA ship R/V David
Starr Jordan, and it hosts visiting research vessels from US and
foreign institutions as time and space permit.
Buildings adjacent to the pier and quay wall house shops, the control room of marine radio station WWD, scientific staging and storage areas, administrative offices, and shipboard technical support spaces and offices.
The marine facility is capable of carrying out a variety of ship maintenance, repair, and modification work 'in house.' Scientific equipment of every description can be loaded and unloaded, or prepared and sent to ports around the world for scientists from Scripps and from many other institutions. |
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Ship Scheduling
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0210 Telephone: (858) 534-2840 Fax: (858) 822-5811 shipsked@ucsd.edu |
