Nautilus

Nautilus is a research vessel owned by the Ocean Exploration Trust under the direction of Robert Ballard, the researcher known for finding the wreck of the Titanic and the . The vessel's home port is at the AltaSea facility in San Pedro in the Port of Los Angeles, California. Nautilus is equipped with a team of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), Hercules, Argus, Little Hercules, and Atalanta, a multibeam mapping system, and mapping tools Diana and Echo, allowing it to conduct deep sea exploration of the ocean to a depth of . History The ship was originally the FS A. v. Humboldt, and was in service for the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) until 2004. The vessel underwent a partial refit in 2021; which saw the vessel lengthened to 68 meters, the addition of a crane, additional cabins, and a mission control center. Remotely operated vehicles