This drilling ship, built in 1982 by a Norwegian shipbuilder, can be considered a floating drilling rig. The ship was, in fact, a geotechnical vessel. It was specifically designed to perform drilling and sounding at sea depths of up to 3,000 meters.

Steel drill pipes are virtually impossible to control over such depths. Therefore, lightweight aluminum material was used here. The ship's engines continued to run during drilling to keep the ship in place. All with the aim of taking seabed samples.

The material was studied in the onboard laboratory. A 44-member crew conducted research primarily, but not exclusively, into the presence of oil and gas in the North Sea, and mainly off the coast of Norway. The ship itself is 78 meters long, 16 meters wide, and has a draft of 8 meters. The gross weight is over 2,750 tons.