JOIDES Resolution

JOIDES Resolution
Career (United States)
Name:	JOIDES Resolution
Operator:	Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Port of registry:	Limassol, Cyprus
Builder:	Halifax Shipyard in Nova Scotia, Canada
Launched:	1978
Renamed:	1985
Refit:	2009
Homeport:	None
Identification:	D5BC
Nickname:	JR
General characteristics
Class & type:	A1 E Drilling Unit AMS ACCU
Type:	Ocean-going Drilling Vessel
Tonnage:	9719 ST
Displacement:	9479-18,720 ST
Length:	470.5 ft
Beam:	70 ft
Height:	202 ft
Ice class:	1B
Installed power:	9000 hp
Boats & landing craft carried:	4
Complement:	112
Crew:	47

Drillship JOIDES Resolution in 1988

JOIDES Resolution (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling) is a scientific drilling ship once used by the Ocean Drilling Program, then by its successor, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. It is the successor of the Glomar Challenger.

The ship was launched as Sedco/BP 471, an oil exploration vessel. It was later converted for scientific use and began working for the ODP in January 1985.

The "JR" returned to active service in February 2009 following an extensive renovation of its laboratory facilities and crew quarters.

IODP accomplishments

Expeditions completed	Operations days	Miles traveled	Sites visited	Holes drilled	Cores recovered
21	1032	67,101	74	217	4,264

Northernmost site	Southernmost site	Shallowest water depth	Deepest water depth	Deepest hole	Total core recovered
67 deg N	66.4 deg S	95.5 m	4,479 m	1,507 m	29,295 m

ODP Accomplishments

Expeditions completed	Operations days	Miles traveled	Sites visited	Holes drilled	Cores recovered
111	6,591	355,781	669	1,797	35,772

Northernmost site	Southernmost site	Shallowest water depth	Deepest water depth	Deepest hole	Total core recovered
80.5 deg N	70.8 deg S	37.5 m	5,980 m	2,111 m	222,704 m

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