Underwater steel cutting continues with a team of five divers onboard the Rena each day, the Maritime New Zealand announces. The underwater work is a particularly difficult and potentially dangerous phase of the Rena wreck reduction and the divers need to navigate numerous underwater obstacles just to get into a position to cut steel. This [...]
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Gardline’s coastal survey vessel the George D, named after the founder of the company, George Darling was lifted from the dock in Great Yarmouth early Tuesday morning and loaded onto the mighty 7002 tonne MV Pangini for its transportation to Douala, the largest port and city in Cameroon. The George D is one of [...]
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Babcock has successfully completed the first phase of a contract awarded by Shell, to integrate a novel self-stabilising gangway system onboard the subsea construction vessel MV Island Enforcer, providing pedestrian access for workers from vessel to offshore platform as required. The integrated system has now been mobilised for its offshore deployment to connect to the [...]
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The Dutch offshore contractor Tideway, specialized in offshore dredging, landfall construction and pipeline stabilization, has purchased Amarcon’s OCTOPUS-Onboard for her rock dumping vessel Rollingstone. For a period of nine months Tideway leased OCTOPUS-Onboard for the purpose of response monitoring & prediction and heavy weather decision support onboard the Rollingstone. In this period Tideway tested and [...]
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Early March, Huisman, the Dutch-based specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, successfully installed world’s largest Offshore Mast Crane onboard the “Seven Borealis” in four days only. This crane installation is considered as the heaviest and logistically most complex conducted by Huisman to date. After final load testing, the “Seven Borealis” will depart for the [...]
