NOAA Ship HENRY B. BIGELOW is a research vessel run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States. It is one of the newest floating laboratories owned by the United States Government and is one of the most advanced scientific research ships of its kind in the entire world. It is designed to do research on fish and other kinds of marine life in remote areas in the open sea. In fact the ship has 7 different laboratory spaces as well as an advanced computer network to support all kinds of research.

The ship is based in the Northeast of the United States. Scientists from NOAA and other research institutions around the world come to stay on the ship to use its labs and equipment to do research on the open sea for varying lengths of time.

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