{"id":139175,"date":"2013-10-29T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=139175"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:56:41","slug":"the-arrival-of-the-alpha-delphini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-arrival-of-the-alpha-delphini\/","title":{"rendered":"The arrival of the Alpha Delphini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_139181\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139181\" alt=\"The vessels Alpha Delphini and Alpha Crucis anchored in Santos: increase in oceanographic research capacity.\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/010-011_Estrategias_211_2.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"190\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Eduardo Cesar<\/span>The vessels Alpha Delphini and Alpha Crucis anchored in Santos: increase in oceanographic research capacity.<span class=\"media-credits\">Eduardo Cesar<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The oceanographic vessel <i>Alpha Delphini<\/i> was christened on August 12, 2013, at the port of Santos. Built in a shipyard in the state of Cear\u00e1, its construction was made possible thanks to a proposal submitted to FAPESP by the USP Oceanographic Institute (IO) as part of the Multi-User Equipment (EMU) Program. The maiden voyage of the <i>Alpha Delphini<\/i> is taking place a little over a year after that of the oceanographic research vessel <i>Alpha Crucis<\/i>, also financed by FAPESP (<a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/2012\/05\/06\/the-alpha-crucis-saga\/?\" target=\"_blank\"><em>see <\/em>Pesquisa FAPESP <em>Issue<\/em> <em>No. 195<\/em><\/a>), which has provided funds for seven vessels to date. &#8220;The <i>Alpha Delphini<\/i> complements the <i>Alpha Crucis<\/i> and fulfills a need unmet since the retirement of the vessel <i>Professor W. Besnard<\/i>, as its autonomy is equivalent to that of the retired vessel, but it operates at a lower cost and has a greater ability to maneuver out at sea,&#8221; said Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques, IO-USP director, to <i>Ag\u00eancia <\/i>FAPESP. The <i>Professor W. Besnard<\/i> was used from 1967 until 2008, when a fire on board made it unsuitable for operational research. \u00a0&#8220;When the USP professors submitted proposals for the <i>Alpha Crucis<\/i> and <i>Alpha Delphini<\/i> to FAPESP, the Foundation was immediately willing to support the two projects because it understood their importance to the advancement of oceanographic research in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo,&#8221; said the president of FAPESP, Celso Lafer, who attended the christening with Jo\u00e3o Grandino Rodas, USP president.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel cost a total of R$6 million. FAPESP invested R$4.4 million in the construction of the vessel. The rest\u2014engines and some scientific equipment\u2014was financed by USP. The <i>Alpha Delphini<\/i> has an autonomous range of 10-15 days, depending on the number of crew members, and it can operate over a range of 200 nautical miles from the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vessel Alpha Delphini is christened at the port of Santos","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-139175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=139175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}