Ambon, Maluku (Antara) - The Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) will use research vessels equipped with multibeam echosounders capable of reaching a depth of six thousand meters for exploring the eastern Indonesian waters. The research vessels also had oceanographic technologies to measure temperature, salinity, and chemical parameters at a minimal depth of five thousand meters, Augy Syagalaitua, the head of LIPI's Ambon Marine Biota Conservation Office, noted here on Wednesday. The price of one well-equipped research vessel is about Rp250 billion, he remarked. Long-range research cruises were needed because many Exclusive Economic Zone (ZEE) locations were not yet studied or explored, he added. "We will also prepare the necessary human resources for the ZEE research for the next 10 to 20 years," he affirmed. LIPI Chairman Lukman Hakim earlier stated that his institute needed more research vessels for sophisticated deep-sea research, following the status upgrade of the Ambon Marine Biota Conservation Office to LIPI's Deep-sea Research Center. Indonesia needed to build research vessels of international standards, he reiterated. (*)


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