The Heraclitus Research Vessel was designed and built by The Institute of Ecotechnics and launched in 1975 from Oakland, California.
Since that time it has sailed around the world twice, conducted research about whales in the Antarctic and navigated the Amazon.
The 84′ Chinese Junk with a ferrocement hull is one of the most exceptional seafaring vessels ever built. It has decades of experience conducting expeditions to remote coastal cultures, serving as platform for numerous citizen science initiatives, documentary films, and conducting training programs for hundreds of individuals of all ages in seamanship.
Since 1975, the Research Vessel Heraclitus has been documenting remote coastal areas, conducting citizen science programs, collecting data in marine ecologies, mapping and monitoring coral reefs in the Caribbean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, SE Asia and the Pacific, making film documentaries and logging over 100 hours in oral history documentation of the SeaPeople of the Mediterranean: lighthouse operators, fishermen, ship’s captains describing their lives and changes observed over the last few decades.
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