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Far more than an RIB
Friday 29 July 2011
RIBRENTAL SCUBA REPLACEMENT BOAT – RHINO 850 JET
We have recently fabricated an 8.5m Rhino
Boat fitted with a 164 HP Steyr Marine inboard diesel motor and Alamarine Jet
Drive. The boat was fully kitted out with the necessary modifications to carry
out SRP dive operations off-shore. Some of the modifications included: pontoon
cut out & dive ladder system, stainless steel SAT frame, stainless steel
portal structure with canvass canopy, dual battery electrical system and
electronic equipment.
The clients came down for field trials which were carried
out in Cape Town and operation of the boat was to their satisfaction. The Rhino
850 Jet Boat will be stationed on a mother vessel of the West Coast of Africa
and will be used for various dive operations relating to the off shore oil and
gas industry.
SBM DYNAMIC INSTALLER – RHINO 590 EHD
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| The Rhino 590 EHD |
We recently supplied SBM with a Rhino 590 EHD for use
as a workboat/small personnel carrier which is stationed on their vessel the
Dynamic Installer. One of the bow
bollards had been damaged in operation and we therefore sent one of our
technicians to complete the necessary repairs onboard the Dynamic Installer
while in transit between Ghana and Equatorial Guinea. Not only was the repair
work carried out, but our technician provided HDPE welding training to the crew
on board and we supplied them with welding equipment and material so that they
can now do all their repairs and additions to their Rhino Boat themselves on
site. Rhino Marine offers the service of
supplying HDPE welding equipment, material and training on site/on board the
client’s mother vessels so that their crew can do any repairs or additions to
their Rhino boat that may be required.
Monday 18 July 2011
EM BOUY EMERGENCY REPAIR – RHINO 590 EHD
We have supplied a Rhino 590 EHD to be used as the workboat for the EM BOUY Emergency repair operation engineered in 2010 by Wale Marine, our sister company.
See the boat in action:
In 2000 PetroSA / Mossgas installed the 55 m high EM control buoy together with its 2000 Te gravity base in the exposed southern ocean some 100 km off the southern tip of Africa.
10 years later after being incessantly battered by the fatigue loading caused by the seas that pass these exposed environments it was identified in a sub-sea survey that the head of the shackle pin on one of the three tethers had sheared off and was migrating outward endangering the installation, and on a second tether the hanger was cracked.
Rhino Marine’s sister company, Wale Marine, were commissioned by Petro SA and Cape Diving to engineer an emergency solution to rectify this precarious situation that could be implemented in the winter months when the heavy seas prevail. These works would need to be executed from their small SOV (converted AHT) which had a saturation and air diving spread on board.
The operations to be carried out required a tough work boat that could operate in these harsh conditions. We supplied a Rhino 590 EHD to be used as the workboat for these operations and it proved to be an extremely valuable asset in completing the job successfully. Feedback from the crew operating the boat was only positive and they had they quoted that a conventional RIB, aluminium hull and GRP hull work boat would have struggled to carry out the job in the successful manner that the Rhino did.
See the boat in action:
In 2000 PetroSA / Mossgas installed the 55 m high EM control buoy together with its 2000 Te gravity base in the exposed southern ocean some 100 km off the southern tip of Africa.
10 years later after being incessantly battered by the fatigue loading caused by the seas that pass these exposed environments it was identified in a sub-sea survey that the head of the shackle pin on one of the three tethers had sheared off and was migrating outward endangering the installation, and on a second tether the hanger was cracked.
Rhino Marine’s sister company, Wale Marine, were commissioned by Petro SA and Cape Diving to engineer an emergency solution to rectify this precarious situation that could be implemented in the winter months when the heavy seas prevail. These works would need to be executed from their small SOV (converted AHT) which had a saturation and air diving spread on board.
The operations to be carried out required a tough work boat that could operate in these harsh conditions. We supplied a Rhino 590 EHD to be used as the workboat for these operations and it proved to be an extremely valuable asset in completing the job successfully. Feedback from the crew operating the boat was only positive and they had they quoted that a conventional RIB, aluminium hull and GRP hull work boat would have struggled to carry out the job in the successful manner that the Rhino did.
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