Oslo-listed SeaBird Exploration is heading to Central America for a seismic research job.
It will carry out a long-offset survey in Belize from the middle of this month.
SeaBird will use its 3,100-gt Northern Explorer (built 1987) over three or four weeks.
Last month, the company bought a research ship it has been chartering since 2006.
The 66-loa Hawk Explorer (built 1984) cost $1.1m,