The ship will be getting underway.
All hands make preparations for sea.
Visit NOAA's marine scientists and surveyors of today as they study and survey the oceans of the World. At any given time on any given day, there are NOAA ships making oceanographic observations, studying and protecting marine mammals, conducting fisheries stock assessments, surveying our harbors and waterways, servicing oceanographic buoys, or conducting any of a myriad of tasks and operations that help us better understand, protect, and wisely use the ocean and its resources. Over the years, NOAA ships have worked in all oceans, circum-navigated the Earth, and operated north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. They have visited every continent. Also visit the ships and boats of yesteryear, as NOAA's maritime heritage extends back to the early Nineteenth Century.