“An oceanographic research vessel is a vessel which the U.S. Coast Guard finds is employed exclusively in one or more of the following:

(a) Oceanographic instruction;

(b) Limnologic instruction;

(c) Oceanographic research; or,

(d) Limnologic research.”


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