EPA's Ocean Survey Vessel Bold

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EPA Region 1 OSV Bold Fact Sheet

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2010 Annual Report

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2009 Annual Report

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2008 Annual Report

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2007 Annual Report

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2006 Annual Report

The steel band BCB Burning Blazers, from Bertha C. Boschulte Junior High School, welcomes the OSV Bold into port at Crown Bay Pier in St Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands.

Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Our Oceans and Coastal Waters: OSV Bold 2010 Annual Report (26 pp, 5MB, About PDF)

The Ocean Survey Vessel Bold (The Bold) is EPA's only ocean and coastal monitoring vessel. The Bold is equipped with state-of-the-art sampling, mapping, and analysis equipment including sidescan sonar, underwater video, water sampling instruments, and sediment sampling devices, which scientists can use in various monitoring activities. The vessel is a converted U.S. Navy T-AGOS class vessel and is 224 feet long and 43 feet wide. EPA acquired the Bold on March 31, 2004.

Ocean habitats are impacted by many human activities, including shoreline development, land-based sources of pollution, and discharges from vessels. With coastal populations increasing, pressures on oceans and coastal waters are also growing.

EPA recognizes that accurate and timely data collection and analysis along our coasts will help us take actions necessary to keep our nation’s coastal and ocean waters healthy.