The "Cornide Saavedra," in September 2013, ceased to carry out continuous activity in oceanographic campaigns. In September 2014 he developed his last activity, which aimed to intercalibrate with other ships in the context of the program "Demersales" (José Ignacio Diaz@-@ IEO).

A tribute event has taken place in Marín (Pontevedra), ending over 40 years of service of the oceanographic ship Cornide de Saavedra to the IEO and the entire Spanish marine scientific community of the oceanographic ship. The ship is in the advanced process of public auction and, before delivering it to its new owner, the IEO has held an act of tribute, which took place in the Port of Marin.

During the event, the coordinator of the IEO Fleet, José Ignacio Díaz; the director of the IEO's Oceanographic Centre of Vigo, Victoria Besada; the researcher Javier Pereiro; one of the ship's captains, Ernesto Fernández; and the IEO director, Eduardo Balguerías, highlighted the importance of the Cornide Saavedra for the research and training of marine scientists in recent decades. The Cannide de Saavedra was at the time the largest and best equipped ship in the country, with a great multidisciplinary capacity which, in addition, until its last year of activity has also been a training platform, in which almost the entire national oceanographic community has participated. This ship has also been considered as the Single Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) since 1995 and has developed on average more than 200 days a year of campaign without counting transits.