Shinyo Maru Ⅳ as a training ship is assigned to produce officers with special skills to contribute to fisheries-related industries and marine-resource exploration/utilization. To fulfill this mission, she possesses a variety of instruments and facilities to execute oceanographic observations in a contemporary manner. There is a CTD system, capable of obtaining depth-distributions of temperature and salinity with world-standard quality, which can be rigged with optional sensors to measure some acoustic, optical and biological properties. This CTD system can be sent down to the deep, through a winch with armored cable of 8 mm in diameter and 7,000 m in length. LARS（ launch and recovery system） helps the handling smooth and safe. There also are various kinds of plankton and micro-nekton sampling apparatuses for biological oceanography. For sea-bottom measurements, instruments such as airgun and streamer, autonomous underwater vehicle, remotely operated vehicle can be operated. A 'wet' lab and a 'dry' lab, having decent space separated by a door, are useful for biological/chemical analyses and operations utilizing electronic devices, respectively. All these contemporary equipment will sure be of educational use; moreover, oceanographic observations acquired in the course of education should be invaluable for the progress of ocean sciences.
