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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />A request has come in for a new code for the vessel <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=15012' target='_blank'>DR. BERNARDO HOUSSAY</a> from ARGENTINA(AR). This code suggestion will need confirmation by NOAA.
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<br /><b>Original Requester : Alexandra Grodsky (Alexandra.Grodsky@noaa.gov)</b>
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<br />Proposed Code : 08AH
<br />Name : <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=15012' target='_blank'>DR. BERNARDO HOUSSAY</a>
<br />Country(s) : ARGENTINA(AR) (ISO Country Code)
<br />Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
<br />Call Sign : L2EF
<br />MMSI: 701006249
<br />Commissioned Date : 2012
<br />Current Length : 47
<br />Built : 1931
<br />Previous Name (Notes): EL AUSTRAL
<br />Notes : Oceanographic motorsailer. It was built between 1929 and 1930 in Denmark as Atlantis. Served as the first and also the main research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1931-1964. Sold to Argentina and renamed El Austral in 1966. She was entirely rebuilt and designed. Commissioned as an oceanographic research vessel in the Argentine Naval Prefecture as the Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay in 2012.
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<br /><b> Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Atlantis
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<br /> - http://www.prefecturanaval.gov.ar/noticias/gacetillas_ing.php?numero=11209
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<br /> - http://www.prefecturanaval.gov.ar/noticias/gacetillas_ing.php?numero=08714
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<br /> - http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/shipid:771454/mmsi:701006249/imo:0/vessel:DR_BERNARDO_HOUSSAY
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />http://aprs.fi/info/i/701006249 in service as of 2015 so submitted decommisioned date is incorrect.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 06/07/2015 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Kind regards,
<br />The ICES Data Centre
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<br />International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
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