The ship was built at Drydocks World Dubai for Polarcus, a Dubai-based marine geophysical company in the UAE.
The ship was acquired in December 2012[REF] by the Turkish state-owned oil and gas company TPAO to an amount of US$130 million for use in marine seismographic surveys, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız said on January 30, 2013.