The R/V Escorial is an aluminum survey boat, 35 ft length, 12 ft beam with a Detroit V-8-71 and a bowthruster. It has air conditioning, 100 gallon/day watermaker, diving hooka system with three compressors, boom with electric hoist, 4 kW Diesel generator, 1kw inverter, autopilot, DGPS, Satellite navigator, weatherfax, radar, sonar and a sophisticated navionics system logging its position in real time on electronic NOAA charts in its navigation computer.