Talk:Raytheon Polar Services Company

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Raytheon Operated Vessels

If I hadn't been a USAP contractor for several seasons and knew nothing of RPSC, then I would think that all Raytheon did was operate the Gould and the Palmer, which RPSC in fact does not do.

The links provided in the article clearly state that the vessels are built by Edison Chousest Offshore. It stands to reason, then, that the NSF leases the ships from ECO (which it does), not RPSC, and that ECO operates the ships. You can even see "ECO" clearly painted on the ships in the photos, along with the company's seal on the funnels. Though, to be fair, there is a lot of Raytheon manufactured marine equipment in the wheel house.

Also, it's absurd to state that the Palmer resupplies McMurdo Station. The Palmer has been to McMurdo, but it is not capable of resupplying a station that has a max population of 1200 people during the summer. That takes a massive cargo container vessel, an oil tanker and at least one, and sometimes two, US Coast Guard ice breaker.

This article is factually inaccurate, possibly deceptively so. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to fix it at the moment, but if anyone wants to give it a go before I get back to it, then be my guest. I will take the time, though, to delete the laughable assertion that the Palmer "services" McMurdo Station. AntarcticFox (talk) 03:03, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]