Akademik Ioffe
research vessel
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Akademik Ioffe
- IMO number
- 8507731
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- research vessel
- Gross tonnage
- 6,450
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 117 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1989
- Builder
- Hollming
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Akademik Ioffe
Akademik Ioffe is a research vessel, named after the Soviet physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. Built in 1988, the vessel has a displacement of 6,600 tons, and a length of 364 ft (111 m). Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey Vavilov were built as a joint project. Both ships feature a vertical shaft about two meters in diameter, which opens from the main deck into a special room, from which an acoustic receiver or a transmitter can be lowered to below the waterline by means of a winch. The vessels were used for experiments on the long-range propagation of sound in the ocean. The vessel belongs to the Institute of Oceanology. P. P. Shirshov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was chartered by One Ocean Expeditions until 2019.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Akademik Ioffe now?
- Akademik Ioffe has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Akademik Ioffe?
- Akademik Ioffe is a research vessel, built in 1989 by Hollming. The vessel is 117 m long and has a gross tonnage of 6,450.
- Has Akademik Ioffe been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Akademik Ioffe appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).