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“Where we cannot get a technical or marine superintendent to visit the vessels, we will rely much more on onboard technology to film and collect data – to put the onus on the crew to provide verifiable data to check and combine that with spot checks of local surveyor,” O’Neil said.

Marine superintendent Mike Blaske compared them to zebra mussels, one of more than 180 non-native species already established in the Great Lakes.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: “This report was from the offices of the White Star Line’s marine superintendent at Southampton directly to Captain Smith warning him of a potential obstruction ahead. “The obstruction wasn’t an iceberg but the mast of a wreck that had been reported by the Rotterdam, a Dutch liner that had travelled from New York.

It was produced by Benjamin Steele who was the Marine Superintendent for White Star Line at Southampton Docks on 6 April 1912, and was specifically addressed to Smith.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will operate the ship, but it is owned by the National Science Foundation, and scheduling research cruises is done in conjunction with the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System, or UNOLS, said Dan Oliver, the marine superintendent at UAF’s Seward Marine Center.