BSRC RESEARCH FLEET — ST. PAUL ISLAND, ALASKA
RESEARCH VESSEL
Eventide
A 50-foot research vessel operated by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government — hosting and supporting science in the heart of the Bering Sea.
OVERVIEW
Fifty feet of research infrastructure, three hundred miles from the mainland.
The Eventide is the newest addition to the Bering Sea Campus — the research vessel at the center of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government’s vision of a research economy on St. Paul Island. Positioned in the heart of the Bering Sea, the vessel gives local and visiting researchers direct access to a region on the front lines of climate change, shifting fisheries, and marine ecosystem transformation.
OPERATOR
Aleut Community of St. Paul Island
Tribal Government (ACSPI)
Tribal Government (ACSPI)
ARRIVED ST. PAUL
August 2026
DELIVERY VOYAGE
Port Townsend, WA → St. Paul, AK
Seven weeks under way
Seven weeks under way
CAMPUS
Bering Sea Research Center
VESSEL SPECIFICATIONS
LWL
50 ft
LOA
56 ft
BEAM
15' 6"
DRAFT
5' 5"
GROSS TONS
27 Tons
NET
22 Ton
PROPULSION
Single 350HP Cummins 8.3 6-Cylider
CRUISE SPEED
8-9 knots, 11 knots top speed
RANGE
700 miles
BERTHS
5 (+2 auxiliary)
CREW
3
RESEARCH CAPABILITIES
Survey Class Research Vessel; 10x15ft Work Deck, 12ft A-frame with Electronic Winch, Pot Puller, 2-TimeZero Nav Systems, TZT16F MFD chartplotter/fish finder, Furuno GPS Navigator, Raymarine ST40 Display, ComNav 1101 Autopilot, Furuno FCV-600L fish finder, Global Sea Starlink
DECK HANDLING
Stern A-frame with block, hydraulic winch and side davit for towed and lifted equipment.
WORK DECK
Open aft deck with rail-protected working perimeter and cargo netting.
STERN ACCESS
Boarding platform with ladder for dive, sampling and small-boat operations.
VESSEL SPECIFICATIONS
Research infrastructure, not simply a boat.
Eventide enables ACSPI to host and support a broad range of research in the surrounding waters — from fisheries and wildlife studies to climate and oceanographic work.
Crew stage a side-scan sonar towfish on the aft deck, working through morning fog.
01
Towed survey systems
Seafloor imaging and towed instruments deploy over the stern — staged, launched and recovered from the open aft deck with the vessel’s A-frame and winch.
02
Deployment & recovery over the stern
Instruments and autonomous platforms — including gliders — come aboard through the stern gate, watched from the wheelhouse on the vessel’s deck camera.
03
Fisheries & wildlife studies
A working platform for the fish, crab, seabird and marine mammal research that the Pribilof Islands sit at the center of — supporting local and visiting science teams alike.
04
Climate & oceanographic work
Station-keeping in a region on the front lines of climate change: water-column sampling, instrument moorings and long-term observation in the surrounding waters.
THE VOYAGE NORTH
Seven weeks at sea.
Thousands of miles of open water.
In the summer of 2026 the Eventide left Port Townsend, Washington, and worked her way north and west across thousands of miles of open water. Seven weeks later she stood into the harbor at St. Paul Island, her new home port — met by a community that had been planning for this arrival for years.
DEPARTURE
Port Townsend, WA
Puget Sound
UNDER WAY
North Pacific → Bering Sea
Seven weeks · thousands of miles
ARRIVED AUGUST 2026
St. Paul Island, AK
57.1°N · 170.3°W — home port
A vessel for a vision
The Eventide is the product of years of planning and investment by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government — a deliberate step toward a research economy that draws local and visiting researchers to St. Paul for work on the island and in the surrounding waters, creating jobs and opportunity for a remote island community.
Built into the Campus
Together with the Bering Sea Research and Education Centers, the vessel completes what ACSPI calls the Bering Sea Campus: shoreside labs, classrooms and facilities with a working platform on the water — enduring, community-led capacity for science and stewardship in the Pribilof Islands.
“This vessel gives us the tools to study, steward, and share the waters that have sustained the Aleut people for generations.”
JOHN WAYNE MELOVIDOV — PRESIDENT, ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST. PAUL ISLAND TRIBAL GOVERNMENT
“Welcome home, Crew and Eventide.” — the community turned out to greet the ship, August 2026.
WORKING ABOARD
Bring your program aboard
Eventide operates as shared research infrastructure. If your work needs time on Bering Sea water, it starts with a conversation with BSRC.
01 — INQUIRE
Write to the BSRC team with your research goals, timeline and equipment needs.
02 — SCOPE & SCHEDULE
Operating season, scheduling and cost structure are confirmed with BSRC during project planning.
03 — MOBILIZE
Crew support and the Campus’s labs, equipment inventory and facilities integrate with your field program on island.
or write directly to bsrc@aleut.com · (907) 615-5200
ON-ISLAND SUPPORT
SAFETY & PROTOCOLS
Working safely, every trip
VESSEL SAFETY
All personnel aboard operate under the vessel’s safety requirements, briefed before departure.
Vessel safety checklist — provided during project planning
BIOSAFETY
Sampling and specimen handling follow BSRC biosafety requirements for work at sea and ashore.
Biosafety requirements — provided during project planning
OPERATIONS
Deck operations, equipment handling and watch protocols are set by the crew for every deployment.
Operations protocols — provided during project planning
THE VESSEL IN VIEW
Home port on the transom: EVENTIDE — ST. PAUL, AK.
Recovery operations, watched from the wheelhouse.
MEDIA INQUIRIES
Office of the President, ACSPI — requests@aleut.com · 907-615-3500
Get in Touch
Interested in the Eventide for your next research expedition? We’d love to hear from you.
Call us for more info
(907) 615-5200
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