![]() In the PBS documentary USS Indianapolis Live from the Deep, Allen said, "We've done a number of these explorations to try to find sunken warships. A precondition set by Allen is for discovered wrecks to be respected as war graves and their locations kept secret, but known to only national governments and museums. The primary mission of the ship, which is fully funded by Allen's estate, is to explore historically significant wrecks at challenging depths and conditions. 9.2 Full ocean multi-beam and sub bottom-profiler.9.1 Deep Argo floats in the Atlantic Ocean.8.16 University of Hawaii's lost ROV Luu'kai.7.2 C-2A Greyhound in the Philippine Sea.4 Crew expeditions in 2015 aboard Octopus.It also serves as a testing bed for new deep-sea equipment that has never been deployed on any other ship. It is the only privately owned vessel in the world equipped to explore 6,000 m (19,685 ft) depths. ![]() In 2017, the ship completed an extensive retrofitting to become a deep-submergence research vessel. In 2016, Allen purchased the offshore service vessel formerly named Seven Petrel from Subsea 7, a subsea engineering, construction, and services company. The ship is named after the sea bird petrel. RV Petrel, or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789), is a 76.45 m (250.8 ft) research vessel owned by the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. ![]()
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