All aboard 'Boaty McBoatface'
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How Long Can You Stay at Sea?
Professor Maria Fox is leading a team inside the AI lab at Bass focused on automating route planning for this beautiful vessel that we are now sitting on. We've got around 35 marine crew at the moment and we can take about 55 scientists and we could be up to 90 people in total, which is a fair amount. A ship of this size presumably has quite an impressively sized crew. The ships really well designed with those conditions in mind. So all the thrusters are really powerful so we can actually stay on station in rough weather even in those rough conditions in the Southern Ocean.
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