Accessories & Equipment

Continuing communication is required for sustainable safety improvements with Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs), an offshore wind safety forum has concluded.

A Survival Craft Simulator (SCS) has been launched to avoid the fatalities associated with lifeboat drills.

Pharos Offshore has established a handling system test procedure to prove an A-Frame can safely operate with a 20t load.

BIMCO has developed new guidance for seafarers on the safe launching and recovery of lifeboats using fall preventer devices (FPDs) to reduce seafarer fatalities and injuries.

A team of Russian developers has been working on the creation of a multipurpose sea-going ekranoplan, (the Russian name for a Wing-In-Ground-Effect craft, or WIG) which they say could contribute significantly to…

NMEA specialist Actisense has recently cooperated with Austrian Tech company t-matix solutions to make information gathered by its products accessible online in real-time, so stepping into the word of the so called…

A new device promises to revolutionise offshore windfarm work by creating a more stable platform between vessels and structures to allow safer crew transfers.

FarSounders longest range sonar system FarSounder-1000 is to be the latest addition to the state-of-the-art equipment incorporated into the British Antarctic Surveys new Polar Research Vessel, the ‘RRS Sir David Attenborough’.

Vessel owners and operators will have more accurate vessel control thanks to the newly available Simrad A2004; a dedicated autopilot controller designed to meet the needs of workboat, commercial fishing and passenger…