[6] As a Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel, ship time aboard was made freely available to researchers once they had undergone an application, peer review process, and their proposal had been accepted.

[10] The mapping data collected is shared as part of the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project with aims to achieve complete seafloor coverage by 2030.

[10] Gaia Blu has two workboats, a high-performance computing system, and real-time water temperature, pH, fluorescence, and salinity measurement capabilities.

[11] Gaia Blu maintains an internet connection using a Seatel 97 series marine stabilized antenna system on C Band, the original frequency allocation for communications satellites.

The VLAN system maximizes the speed and efficiency of applications over the network with traffic-shaping/ WAN optimization technologies, enabling automatic report delivery and real-time monitoring.

Outreach operations are supported by a private, secure VPN tunnel between ship and shore and live acquisition to SOI Website and science sensors in real-time.