The RV Bilim-2 is a Turkish research vessel owned by the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and operated in deep waters by its Institute of Marine Sciences based in Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey.

[2][3] The vessel has a global positioning system (GPS), a conventional radar with a range of 52 nautical miles (60 mi; 96 km) for navigation and modern communication equipment.

[5] Operated by using a hydrographic winch with a cable, a CTD profiling system of Sea-Bird Model 9 and a rosette sampler with twelve bottles each five liter of General Oceanics are used for gathering physical and chemical data from the sea.

An automatic Winkler titration system, an AutoAnalyzer, a spectrofluorometer, an irradiance meter and various other instruments are available for chemical and nutrient analyses in the labs on board the vessel.

[2] In 2010, Bilim-2 was tasked by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock with a project for "Acoustic determination of anchovy stock and establishing a continuous monitoring method" as part of the "National Fisheries Data Collection Program".