[SEMCO] Tour the new NOAA Ship Henry Bigelow

[Teri Frady]

The science labs of the new NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow will be open for 
public tours this Saturday from 2:30 PM until 6PM at Massachusetts 
Maritime Academy.  The ship is a state-of-the-art fishery research 
vessel and one of the quietest ships in the world.  The Bigelow will 
operate primarily in waters off the Northeastern U.S. and eventually 
replace the  NOAA Ship Albatross IV, which has served NOAA's Fisheries 
Service in the Northeast since 1962. 

Tours are free, no unaccompanied children, no pets.  Ship is not 
wheelchair accessible.

For more on the Bigelow, see this:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2889.htm

Scroll down in the page to the box on the right--hear the Bigelow underway!