Two incidents involving minor personal injuries and one near-miss hazardous situation were reported in 2012 in connection with saturation diving in connection with petroleum activities. This is discussed in the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway’s (PSA’s) report from the DSYS diving database. This year’s report contains statistics and analyses based on data from the period 1985-2012. […]
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Cristobal Colon is the biggest of Bermuda’s shipwrecks. This massive Spanish cruise liner was 499 feet long and three decks high. It crashed into the coral reefs off the Bermuda’s North Shore while traveling with 160 crew members from Wales to Mexico. The Cristobal Colon nowadays is scattered across a large area of the sea […]
A NORTH WEST based commercial diving and specialist offshore services company has been awarded a major contract to support the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay. Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (HSSE), with offices in Bootle, Mostyn and Staines, won a £5million contract for diving and cable installation support services, creating […]
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After announcing the tender for port diving services, Grand port maritime de Marseille awarded the contract to ECTM. The company will provide diving services in the Port of Marseille, assistance during the positioning of vessels into dry docks, floating services, etc. It will also provide services required to carry out underwater works to visit and […]
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Port Atlantique de La Rochelle awarded a port diving services contract worth 480,000 EUR to Atlantique Scaphandre. Diving services are needed in order to maintain underwater structures of the Port of La Rochelle, (PALR), with ongoing inspection works for monitoring of subsea installations with various odd jobs as required. This activity contributes significantly to the […]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has signed a contract for the design of a new diving support vessel (DSV) to be built for Subsea 7, the seabed-to-surface engineering, construction, and services contractor to the offshore energy industry. The brand new VS 4725 DSV design has been created by Wärtsilä Ship Design […]
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Subsea 7 has signed a contract to build a new Dive Support Vessel (DSV). The new vessel will be delivered in 2015. This state-of-the-art vessel will be built by Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), one of the world’s largest ship building companies. “The vessel will reinforce our leading diving capabilities with one of the […]
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Fairmount Marine’s multipurpose support vessel Fairmount Fuji has supported Angolan maritime service provider Octomar Serviços Maritimos in underwater maintenance of the drilling rig Transocean Rather. The Fairmount Fuji hosted and assisted a diving team of Octomar during the six weeks job offshore Angola. The Fairmount Fuji is a multipurpose support vessel with a spacious aft […]
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Osiris Marine Services announce successful completion of diving works on the Lincs Offshore Wind Farm. Supporting offshore foundations market leader MT Højgaard with Diving, ROV, Confined space and tower climbing services continuously for 18 months, Osiris Marine Services played a significant role in the successful completion of the foundation installation works. Working from the jack […]
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Cal Dive International, Inc. announced that it has recently commenced a two-year charter of the DP saturation diving vessel Kestrel to a major contractor in Mexico to perform repair and maintenance work for Pemex. The charter started in mid-October and has a fixed term of two years with an additional one-year option. The charter is […]
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