{"id":3327,"date":"2017-06-19T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2017\/06\/19\/submersible-jack-up-platform\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:35:31","slug":"submersible-jack-up-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2017\/06\/19\/submersible-jack-up-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Submersible jack-up platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skylift is a new concept, there\u2019s plenty of jack-up platforms out there on the market, but this one is unique because it\u2019s submersible, Fieke Engelbracht, sales manager, Ravestein, told <em>Maritime Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe build everything from barges and ferries through to elevating platforms and jack-up barges,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the Skylift submersible jack-up platform is a new concept for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan is to build an even larger platform in the future with 16,000 tonnes payload which will be used for heavier de-commissioning works. We\u2019re lucky enough to always be busy, but our strategy is to cater more for the offshore market going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Skylift 3000 operates as a submersible ship lift that can load-in and load-out structures weighing up to 3,000 tonnes. It is suited to work globally across the civils, offshore, oil and gas and renewables sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is both floating and towable, the 60x28m platform also has the ability to be used as a barge and can be used underneath an offshore platform as a way of lifting and lowering a platform for installation and decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>It can also be used in tandem with another platform for heavier decommissioning and salvage works.<\/p>\n<p>The Skylift 3000 platform on show at Seawork is currently being used as a demo vessel and is being leased out to lift boats in and out of the water, most recently at ABP Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Engelbracht continued: \u201cA lot of times we are on an exhibition with our scale model and photo\u2019s, people still don\u2019t believe the barge is actually submersible without the use of cranes and\/or ballast systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when it is here and on the quayside people can see what a spectacle it is and how it functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each day at the exhibition, delegates were treated to a submersion demo.<\/p>\n<p>By Anne-Marie Causer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the Dutch shipyard Ravestein\u2019s 15th appearance at Seawork, but it\u2019s a first for its new concept submersible multipurpose jack-up platform, which generated plenty of interest on the quayside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seawork-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}