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.
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