Subsea Services

Briggs Marine have resumed work on a UK Ministry of Defence contract to remove oil from the tank of a sunken battleship off Scapa Flow, Orkney. The Royal Oak wastorpedoed by a…

Miami, Florida-based wreck exploration and salvage organisation, RPM Nautical Foundation , has acquired a new Type SM-5A Containerised Air Dive System from South African diving system manufacturer Southern Oceanics (Pty) Ltd .

Dorset UK based ROV specialist Subsea Vision Ltd has been appointed by the Babtie Group on behalf of Montrose Port Authority to conduct an underwater survey of approximately 100m of collapsed quay…

The Russian Navy Rescue Service have successfully completed a two week operation locating and recovering a Pacific Fleet Ka-27 naval helicopter and its crew that was lost in the Sea of Japan.…

Since developing its original drilling capability into a total site investigation service last year, Seacore has completed five separate geotechnical marine site investigation contracts for offshore oil and gas projects in the…

Underwater ship maintenance specialists UMC Internationals Plymouth UK team has carried out a diagnostic underwater inspection of a reefer ship during a call to the Torbay anchorage. The ship was experiencing vibration…

Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex won the SMM/Lloyds List 2002 Award for Innovation in Naval Shipbuilding and Marine Technology last autumn in Hamburg. A significant factor in their victory was the innovative…

Corrintec have commenced their longest ever subsea pipeline cathodic protection survey programme in the Gulf of Mexico. The survey, commissioned by PEMEX and operated by Oceanografia, will cover a total of 4,620km…

Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex have developed the capability to produce bespoke mobile mini-drydocks (mobdocks) to effect major repairs underwater to vessels which would otherwise require drydocking.

UMCs challenge to ship owners to throw technical afloat problems at them has resulted in a successful underwater repair. The job was carried out as a joint effort between UMCs head office…

Hugh Williams has been appointed Chief Executive of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), taking over from Tony Read who is retiring.

A new sensor from Hampshire based RS Aqua Ltd measures methane concentrations in water. The METS sensor was originally developed at the German GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht and has already found…

A new, extended version of the Portland 10 Workboat developed specifically to be a diving boat went into service last month with Dorset UK based 2good2btrue Charters.

Aberdeen based survey contractor Andrews Survey has recently completed a pipeline inspection in the Danish section of the North Sea, working in tandem with ROV operators Rovtech Ltd.