GU-801-001.pdf

This document is a Tank Sounding Tables reference manual for the NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER, containing detailed capacity and volumetric data for all onboard storage tanks.

The manual provides comprehensive sounding tables for 26 distinct tanks across multiple categories: seawater ballast tanks (9 tanks with total capacity of 128,068 gallons), fuel oil tanks (10 tanks with total capacity of 163,258 gallons at 95% full), potable water tanks (2 tanks, 4,882 gallons total), lube oil tanks (2 tanks, 2,219 gallons at 95% full), anti-roll tanks (2 tanks, 31,338 gallons total), hydraulic fluid tanks (4 tanks, 800 gallons total), oily waste tanks (2 tanks, 3,006 gallons at 95% full), purifier sludge tanks (1 tank, 106 gallons at 95% full), void spaces (2 tanks, 51,404 gallons total), waste water tanks (3 tanks, 7,964 gallons total), and an emergency diesel generator day tank (336 gallons at 95% full). Each tank entry includes sounding measurements in feet and inches with corresponding volume data in gallons, along with vertical center of gravity (VCG), longitudinal center of gravity (LCG), transverse center of gravity (TCG), and moment of inertia calculations. The document specifies that all tanks have a 3 percent structural deduction factor and provides specific gravity values for different liquids (salt water, fresh water, fuel oil, lube oil, hydraulic fluid, etc.). The tank arrangement diagram on the final page illustrates the physical locations of tanks across the lower platform, hold, inner bottom, and inboard profile sections of the vessel. Revision A was prepared and approved in June 2003, incorporating modifications from the WT BHD 60 installation and accounting for differences between the OSCAR ELTON SETTE and GORDON GUNTER vessels.