The waitress of the ship, sold by the CSIC for her scrapping in direct agreement with a shipyard, was last seen on the night of September 9, 2023 during a campaign in the Mediterranean
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The waitress of the ship, sold by the CSIC for her scrapping in direct agreement with a shipyard, was last seen on the night of September 9, 2023 during a campaign in the Mediterranean
García del Cid was an ancient oceanographic vessel. Built in Tarragona Shipyards and premiered in 1979, it was already in a state of technical obsolescence when, in September 2023, it departed from the port of Barcelona to carry out a ten-day campaign in the Mediterranean. Its mission: to perform bio-optical measurements — the biological properties of the water are evaluated and how they affect the light that passes through or leaves the sea — o…