Zwanny Ltd is an independent, family run company with many years of experience inthe pollution industry. They stock and supply ABSORBENTS, SPILLKITS, OIL SKIMMERS OIL BOOMS and PORTBINS and provide a Total waste management service that includes spill clean up. Zwanny’s aim is to make the environment a better place and they cover the whole of the UK. Recently, one of the major UK Ports groups, purchased, from Zwanny, another Lamor Minimax Skimmer system. This is to go togethe

Tritex NDT have for many years been manufacturing ultrasonic thickness gauges and are now established as one of the leading companies offering multiple echo gauges. Multiple echo technology means that thickness measurements can be taken through 6mm thick coatings, only the metal substrate is measured. It doesn’t matter whether the coating is paint, epoxy or bitumen, it is completely ignored. This has huge advantages over having to remove coatings, both in time and money. It a

Its really still early years for Neptune Inspection, having now been trading for just 3 years. “2020 was a very challenging year for every business, but difficulties can also throw up opportunities,” says Managing Director Steven Winder. The Covid year has given Neptune Inspection time to sit down and to really listen to clients needs and focus on the future. “We were increasingly being asked to conduct close up surveys using Remote Inspection Techniques, especially on much

Introducing the only ROV Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge with live A-scan – the Cygnus ROV UTM. This dedicated ROV mountable, highly intelligent ultrasonic thickness gauge is specifically designed to measure metal thickness in the harshest subsea operating conditions. Equipped with Cygnus’ Multiple- Echo technology and Echo-Echo measuring modes, it fits the bill for accurate measurements through coatings (up to 1mm), as specified by Classification Societies, reducing time and cost

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine recently dispatched a consignment of 49 of its Type Approved, SOLASAFE anti-glare roller sunscreens to Carnival UK in Southampton. They were to replace the old screens installed at the navigation bridge windows of P&O cruise ship MV AURORA, that was built in Pappenburg, Germany in 2000. At 270mts long, MV AURORA is P&O’s smallest ship. It can accommodate 1,874 adults-only passengers and 860 crew with a variety of cruise itineraries sched

Last month in a tragic workplace accident in Nunavut, Canada, a bulldozer broke through the ice and was submerged to a depth of 160 meters. A highly skilled team of Canadian Police underwater investigators responded with SEAMOR Marine’s Chinook ROV, recovering the victim’s body from inside the bulldozer on the Arctic Ocean floor. It was the Canadian Police’s deepest underwater recovery in history and first operational dive above the Arctic Circle. “My heart goes out to the fa

“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

Subsalve is the worldwide leader and innovator in the design and manufacture of engineered inflatables. Their underwater lift bags are specified to meet the toughest challenges in recreational, commercial, scientific, and military applications. Since 1977, Subsalve have provided solutions and expertise for aircraft recovery, ship, yacht, and boat salvage, marine construction, offshore oilfield diving, and explosive ordnance disposal. This month represents a decade since the D