{
	"0":"US Navy or deck log, or unknown",
	"1":"merchant ship or foreign military",
	"2":"ocean station vessel - off station or station proximity unknown",
	"3":"ocean station vessel - on station",
	"4":"lightship",
	"5":"ship",
	"6":"moored buoy",
	"7":"drifting buoy",
	"8":"ice buoy [note: currently unused]",
	"9":"ice station (manned, including ships overwintering in ice)",
	"10":"oceanographic station data (bottle and low-resolution CTD/XCTD data)",
	"11":"mechanical/digital/micro bathythermograph (MBT)",
	"12":"expendable bathythermograph (XBT)",
	"13":"Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) (NDBC operated)",
	"14":"other coastal/island station",
	"15":"fixed (or mobile) ocean platform (plat, rig)",
	"16":"tide gauge",
	"17":"high-resolution Conductivity-Temp.-Depth (CTD)/Expendable CTD (XCTD)",
	"18":"profiling float",
	"19":"undulating oceanographic recorder",
	"20":"autonomous pinneped bathythermograph",
	"21":"glider",
	"30":"sledge",
	"31":"CREX CMAN/Tide gauge"
}