Kjell Inge Rokke Builds World’s Largest Marine Research Vessel for $350 Million
Kjell Inge Rokke, Norway’s richest man who is still remembered in Seattle from his days as a founder of American Seafoods, is building the REV Ocean, that will become the worlds largest marine research vessel.
The 183 meter vessel can carry a crew of up to 60 scientists, and will have trawls designed by Aker Bio-Marine, Rokke’s krill harvesting company, that can operate at depths of 3000 meters, and will have the ability to funnel live organisms up to the wet labs in the vessel ...
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