| Term | Description |
| Natsushima | Ship |
| Tangaroa | Ship |
| Samuel Phillips Lee | Ship |
| SeaMARC I | Sidescan sonar |
| Annie | Annie is a 40’ long aluminum research vessel that was designed and built to support many types of science and exploration-related tasks. |
| Laurence M. Gould | Ship |
| Laney Chouest | Ship |
| Robert D. Conrad | Ship |
| Kaiyo | Ship |
| Western Flyer | Ship |
| FLIP | FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) |
| Akademik Shatskiy | Ship |
| Isla Magueyes | |
| Seawolf | |
| Hyper-Dolphin | ROV |
| Fugro Searcher | |
| Sur Austral | Ship |
| Akademik Kurchatov | Ship |
| Haiyang 4 | Chinese marine geology research vessel |
| Deep Tow | Sidescan sonar/magnetics platform towed some at depth behind a ship |
| Cruzeiro do Sul | Ship |
| Takuyo | Ship |
| Hayes | Ship |
| Doc Ricketts | |
| Robin | |
| Nadir | Ship |
| REMUS 600 | |
| U1383B | |
| Comanche | Electric Light Work ROV |
| Odinn | Ship |
| Astrea | Ship |
| Endeavour | Ship |
| Aegir | Ship |
| Gyre | Ship |
| Roger Revelle | Ship |
| Miss Rankin | |
| Davidson | |
| JOIDES Resolution | Ship |
| Professor Rjabinkin | Ship |
| U1362B | |
| Professor Logachev | Ship |
| Fugro Americas | |
| Discoverer | Ship |
| Seward Johnson | Ship |
| Maurice Ewing | Ship |
| Atlantis II | Ship |
| Tioga | Ship |
| Katundu | Ship |
| Iron Cat | oceanographic research vessel used for seismic |
| PROVOR 101 | |
| Ndunduma | |
| Elakha | Ship |
| Dawson | Ship |
| TowCam | Towed Digital Camera and Multi-rock Coring System |
| Islas Orcadas | Ship |
| Garcia del Cid | Ship |
| Norseman II | Ship |
| Bannock | Ship |
| Quest_charter | chartered fishing boat |
| Mozorola, Morrito #2 | |
| Horizon | Ship |
| DSL-120A | DSL-120A deep-towed sidescan sonar system (120 kHz) |
| Fugro Brasilis | |
| CICIMAR-03 | una lancha (CICIMAR-03) con motor fuera de borda de 65 HP. |
| Fugro Equator | Fugro Equator |
| Glomar Challenger | Ship |
| Brown Bear | Ship |
| Mirai | Ship |
| John V. Vickers | |
| James Clark Ross | Ship |
| Akademik Alexander Nesmeyanov | Ship |
| Gwen-Drez | Ship |
| U1362A | |
| Akademik Lazarev | Ship |
| Ocean Researcher 1 | ship |
| Cape Hatteras | Ship |
| Nathaniel B. Palmer | Ship |
| New Horizon | Ship |
| Ocean Alert | Ship |
| Oceanus | Ship |
| Argus | |
| Polarstern | Ship |
| Celtic Voyager | Ship |
| Pathfinder | Ship |
| Maria S. Merian | |
| McArthur II | Ship |
| D. Allan B. | MBARI Mapping AUV |
| L'Europe | Ship |
| U1383C | |
| Litus | |
| Fugro Gauss | |
| SUESI | Scripps Undersea EM Source Instrument |
| Moana Wave | Ship |
| Rachel Carson | Ship |
| WaveGlider | Autonomous (unmanned) Surface Vehicle. The glider comprises two main components. The first, the "Float", has the appearance of a surfboard and remains at the water’s surface. It is about 1.2 meters long and 0.5 meters. The second component is the "Sub" or the submarine, and it hangs underneath the Float by a 7-meter umbilical. |
| Mawali | Bangladesh eco-tourism vessel. |
| Valero IV | Ship |
| Lynch | Ship |
| Axial Node: OOI Cabled Array | Array of instruments at Axial Seamount |
| 1024C | |
| U1382A | |
| Neecho | 12m boat used primarily for lake work |
| Vema | Ship |
| Fugro Equinox | |
| Challenger | Ship |
| Agulhas | Ship |
| Medea | Part of the Jason/Medea two-body ROV system, Medea can also be used as a stand alone platform equipped with sensors and cameras. |
| GECO My | |
| Kaharoa | |
| Alkor | Ship |
| 1027C | |
| Geotide | Ship |
| Justo Sierra | Ship |
| Polar Duke | ice-strengthened research vessel |
| Pisces | |
| Akademik Kreps | Ship |
| Gelendzhik | Ship |
| SEABOSS | Imaging and sampling platform. |
| Cape Henlopen | Ship |
| Alucia | Ship |
| Chain | Ship |
| DeepTow:MISO | Towed camera platform run by the WHOI-MISO facility. Often equipped with cameras, but not always, and other instruments can be attached. |
| Acadiana | Ship |
| Yaquina | Ship |
| Vidar Viking | icebreaker and anchor-handling tug |
| Tansei-Maru | Ship |
| Hudson | Ship |
| DSL-120 | DSL-120 Sidescan sonar system |
| Jason II | ROV |
| Bransfield | Ship |
| Shirase | Ship |
| Bowditch | Ship |
| Valdivia | Ship |
| Oceanographer | Ship |
| Fugro Supporter | |
| Akademik Selskiy | Ship |
| Alaskan Gyre | ship |
| Farnella | Ship |
| Fred Moore | Ship |
| Thalassa | Ship |
| Yuzhmorgeologiya | Ship |
| Hakuho-Maru | Ship |
| Yokosuka | Ship |
| Quest | Ship |
| Discovery II | Ship |
| U1301A | |
| Lowell Weicker | Boat |
| Neil Armstrong | Ship |
| Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov | Ship |
| Scott | Ship |
| Penck | Ship |
| Hercules | ROV |
| Lone Star | data collection on the continental shelf |
| Brooks-McCall | commercial multi-use vessel suited for a wide variety of oceanographic research |
| Falkor | Ship |
| Franklin | Ship |
| Northern Light | |
| Sally Ride | |
| Shanna Rose | Ship |
| Nyanja | |
| GeoTide | Ship |
| Lulu | |
| Ernest Shackleton | Ship |
| Atlantic Explorer | Ship |
| Researcher | Ship |
| Koca Piri Reis | |
| Sentry | AUV |
| MTA Sismik 1 | Istanbul Technical University |
| Olympic | fishing vessel |
| Sonne | Ship |
| Spasatel Prokopchik | Ship |
| CICIMAR03 | |
| Point Lobos | Ship |
| Victor Loosanoff | |
| Saildrone Surveyor | |
| Akademik Mstislav Keldysh | Ship |
| Salernum | Ship |
| Coriolis | |
| Oconostota | Ship |
| Kairei | Ship |
| Discovery | Ship |
| Knorr | Ship |
| Kraken2 | ROV |
| Pelagia | Ship |
| Arquipelago | |
| SOAR Twin Otter | |
| GAMBIT Twin Otter | |
| John Elliott Pillsbury | Ship |
| Oden | Ship |
| Fugro Discovery | |
| Vityaz | Ship |
| Polar Star | Ship |
| James M. Gilliss | Ship |
| James Cook | |
| Bartlett | Ship |
| Nautilus | Ship |
| PMGRE IL-38 | |
| Nordic Explorer | Ship |
| Sikuliaq | Ship |
| Gerda | Ship |
| Lance | |
| Rude | Ship |
| Healy | Ship |
| 1025C | |
| Akademik Golitsyn | Ship |
| Jean Charcot | Ship |
| Hesperides | Ship |
| Humboldt | Ship |
| Stanley R. Riggs | |
| Professor Polshkov | Ship |
| Shoyo | Ship |
| Trident | Ship |
| Lough Beltra | Ship |
| Robert Gordon Sproul | Ship |
| Falkor (too) | Ship |
| Clifford A. Barnes | Ship |
| Sirius | |
| Tyr | Ship |
| SeaMARC II | Dual Frequency Sidescan Sonar |
| RAFOS | |
| Alpha Helix | Ship |
| Wecoma | Ship |
| Iskatel-3 | Ship |
| 1026B | |
| Wakashio-Maru | Ship |
| Columbus Iselin | Ship |
| Sands | Ship |
| Super Emerald | |
| Jenny | University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences research vessel R/V Jenny. |
| Seward Johnson II | Ship |
| Ronald H. Brown | Ship |
| Longhorn | flagship of The University of Texas fleet 1986 - 2007 |
| Alvin | Manned deep-diving submersible. Max operating depth: 4500m . |
| Prospekta | Ship |
| Le Noroit | Ship |
| Zephyr | Ship |
| Charles Darwin | Ship |
| Dragon | |
| Akademik Fersman | Ship |
| Connecticut | |
| U1301B | |
| 395A | |
| Yogi | ROV |
| Mabahiss | Ship |
| Thomas G. Thompson | Ship |
| Vidal Gormaz | Ship |
| NEPTUNE | |
| Parizeau | Ship |
| Strong | |
| Meteor | Ship |
| GECO Searcher | |
| Poseidon | Ship |
| Bjarni Saemundsson | |
| Kana Keoki | Ship |
| Pritchard | |
| Araon | R/V Araon |
| Gulf Seal | Seismic acquisition vessel owned by Digicon |
| John P. Tully | Ship |
| Sumner | Ship |
| Kexue | Ship |
| ABE | Autonomous Benthic Explorer |
| Blue Heron | Ship |
| Rig Seismic | Ship |
| Manta | Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary research vessel |
| Akademik Boris Petrov | Ship |
| Heincke | Ship |
| REMUS 6000 | AUV |
| Atlantis | Ship |
| SuBastian | |
| Thalia | Ship |
| Touchwood, 38 degrees South | |
| Henson | Ship |
| Western Venturer | Ship |
| Eltanin | Ship |
| BLISP | Boundary Layer In Situ Profiler |
| TOBI | Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument |
| De Steiguer | Ship |
| L'Atalante | Ship |
| Vulcan | A deep-towed CSEM receiver |
| Kellar | Ship |
| Spencer F. Baird | Ship |
| Bluethroat | Ship |
| Sea Sounder | Ship |
| Marion Dufresne | Ship |
| Charles H. Davis | Ship |
| Iskatel-5 | Ship |
| Sir Wilfrid Laurier | |
| Kilo Moana | Ship |
| Okeanos Explorer | Ship |
| Benthos | Boat |
| Sagar Kanya | Ship |
| Argo | Ship |
| Nereus | |
| Akademik Nemchinov | Ship |
| Alaminos | Ship |
| Western Trident | Ship |
| Isis | |
| Sea Ark | |
| Polar Sea | Ship |
| Surveyor | Ship |
| Alamar | |
| Melville | Ship |
| Francisco de Ulloa | Ship |
| LAUV | The LAUV is a lightweight, one-man-portable vehicle that can be easily launched, operated and recovered with a minimal operational setup. |
| Akademik Alexandr Sidorenko | Ship |
| Aurora Australis | Ship |
| Thomas Jefferson | Ship |
| Dmitry Mendeleev | Ship |
| Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa | Ship |
| Endeavor | Ship |
| MARUM-Quest | |
| Le Suroit | Ship |
| Hakurei-Maru | Ship |
| Pelican | Ship |
| Thomas Washington | Ship |
| Ida Green | Ship |
| Pelorus | |
| Pourquoi Pas? | Ship |
| The Performer | ship |
| Celtic Explorer | Ship |
| Marcus G. Langseth | Ship |
