Point Nemo (1993)
Point Nemo* (ex-New Jersey Responder) (IMO 9043914) is operated by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / National Weather Service (NWS).
The vessel is used to deploy and maintain buoys that make up the NDBC’s Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART®) system.
Point Nemo at Pier 2A, Honolulu Harbor. 8 September 2024.
* Point Nemo is the popular name for the geographic location at sea that is farthest away from any land. This point is in the South Pacific Ocean and is known as the “Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility.” Readers of classic literature will recognize Nemo as the name of the captain of the submarine, Nautilus, in Jules Verne’s late nineteenth-century science-fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Remarkable catch! That ship is owned by an investment group related to the Northlake Shipyard in Seattle and apparently was modified for long–term charter to NOAA.
“Nemo” is from Latin for “No Man” or “No one”. There’s a fable about a demon that was harassing a man in ancient Rome and driving him crazy. The demon gave his name as “Nemo,” so when the victim was crying for help, he was yelling “Nobody is after me”
-George
Mahalo for the additional information, George!