Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Fairplay Towage Polska for the delivery of a Shoalbuster 2711 ICE. The company will use the versatile vessel to perform diverse operations, including in the offshore wind industry, in the Baltic and North seas. Damen is building the vessel in Poland. The Shoalbuster 2711 is a proven vessel from Damen’s standardised workboat portfolio. Its versatility comes via various features in its design, including its extreme shallow draft

A revolutionary seismic isolation system – provided by Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc. (CPA) – has been installed on two quayside container cranes for the first time this year. The crane base anti-seismic isolation system (BASIS) is built on nonlinear time history analysis (NLTHA) and can protect the crane main structure from damage even in contingency level earthquakes. BASIS has been successfully installed and commissioned on two cranes that are in a major seismic zone i

SAFE Boats International is excited to announce a formal Partnership Agreement with Diverse Marine. For the past three years SAFE Boats has been working with Diverse Marine promoting SAFE Boat designs in European markets. This new arrangement brings Diverse Marine’s proven Crew Transfer Vessel designs and experience to the US Offshore Wind Market. In support of the Biden Administration’s call to build a clean energy economy, the domestic offshore wind market is burgeoning wit

Decommissioning projects have been ramping up lately, as mature offshore oil and gas sites reach the end of their commercial lives. Spirit Energy’s 11,000-tonne DP3 and DP4 platforms sit approximately 30 kilometres west of Blackpool in the East Irish Sea and had been producing gas since 1985 when the South Morecambe field first came online. However, now disused due to reduced production rate, the installations and their associated pipelines and cables were approved for decomm

A Truly Versatile Subsea Thickness Gauge for Demanding Applications Cygnus Instruments is a leading manufacturer of ultrasonic thickness gauges and is famous amongst its global customer base for its robust and simple to use product philosophy. One of the first products that Cygnus brought to market in the 1980s was a subsea ultrasonic thickness gauge. And it is testament to the outstanding original design that there is still strong demand for this product nearly forty years l

“Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed” – J.G. Ballard Why do people enjoy searching for shipwrecks? Perhaps it is for fame, fortune, historical significance, or general curiosity. Some divers simply want to enjoy the beauty of sea and enjoy the challenge. According to NOAA, archaeology is the science of learning about past human behavior by examining the

The team at Hydroscand’s Widnes branch and Head Office in Nottingham, came to the rescue, when a Liebherr 984 needed a hose very quickly. The customer had a boom that had snapped in the middle on a Liebherr 984. This was sent away for major repair as it couldn’t be repaired on site. Paul Johnston, Branch Manager at the Widnes branch said: “When the repair was completed it came back without any hose on it. So, all eyes were on Hydroscand to do the job well and quickly. The hos

New Standards in Terms of Reliability, Energy Efficiency and Lifetime Global LED lighting specialist Glamox has launched a new family of marine navigation lights with the very latest LED and driver technology, providing users with a navigation light that is unsurpassed in terms of its reliability, energy efficiency and lifetime. The Series 75 family of LED navigation lights from Glamox. Navigation lights are all about safety. The new Series 75 family of LED navigation lights