The finalists have been announced for the 2022 Subsea Expo awards, celebrating the companies and individuals leading the way in the UK’s £8billion underwater industry. The prestigious awards ceremony, organised by the Global Underwater Hub, will take place on February 23, 2022, at P&J Live in Aberdeen. The awards coincide with Subsea Expo – Europe’s largest subsea focused exhibition and conference which will return to Aberdeen in 2022. James Fisher Offshore, Baker Hughes and

Africa Diving Services (ADS) was awarded a surface diving contract offshore Nigeria in 2021. The contract required the planning for over 1000 dives of which the majority were to be carried out using surface decompression. During the planning phase of the project, it was identified that the safest and most productive means to complete the works was to use NITROX diving methods. A client requirement was to ensure that all the dive team members (divers and diving supervisors of

“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine According to the CDC, 3,960 fatal unintentional drownings, including boating-related drownings, occurred in 2020. To locate the missing persons and provide closure to families, it takes dive teams time to assemble, gather their equipment, and begin searching sometimes vast bodies of water. Searching via divers is not only a long process, but it adds a considerable level of

In October, South Shields based Solar Solve Marine dispatched consignments of its American Bureau of Shipping Type Approved, SOLASOLV anti‑glare roller sunscreens to two US naval vessels. One was for 10 SOLASAFE roller sunscreens to be installed at windows on USS EMORY LAND (AS-39), a United States Navy submarine tender and the lead ship of her class. The ship provides food, electricity, water, consumables, spare parts, medical, dental, disbursing, mail, legal services, ordna

Diverse Marine Ltd. and Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service Ltd. are pleased to announce that the two parties have signed a new vessel construction agreement for a first of class 14m Medina Class Lifeboat. Please help support this independent lifeboat build with contributions via: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/annettethurlow After a competitive international tender process using a design from Walker Marine Design, the construction of the vessel at Cowes on the Isle of Wight

As part of a planned succession strategy, the New Year saw a change at the top of Teignbridge Propellers International Ltd. Mark Phare has moved to the position of Group Managing Director, succeeding David Hunt. Hunt remains a Director and shareholder of the company along with David Duncan the Chairman. Phare who has been with Teignbridge for 19 years previously held the positions of Operations Director and Group Sales & Marketing Director. David Hunt and Mark Phare pictu