Maiden Call – Turkish Offshore Support Vessel OPTIMUS PRIDE – 06.09.2023
Last Wednesday 6th September, 2023 the 37 year old lady OPTIMUS PRIDE entered Grand Harbour, Malta for the first time coming from her homeport – Istanbul at Turkey and berthed at MMH Quay 1 East at the mouth of Dock 7. She passed breakwaters at 1723 hrs. She was built in Norway by Ulstein Hatloe […]
Research/Survey Vessel – ASTREA
One of the smallest research ships worldwide is the 23.70m long scientific and technological research vessel ASTREA. Berthed at Dwq 3 back 10 10th July, 2006. She is operated by ICRAM (Central Institute for the scientific and technological Research – environmental Ministry). The vessel has been in order to operate in the most flexible way, […]
Ship of the Week – SKANDI INSPECTOR
DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of the Norwegian company DOF, sold their 36 year old subsea support vessel SKANDI INSPECTOR back to the end of 2015. The vessel built by Hatlo Verksted-Ulsteinvik, Norway, in 1979 as TENDER CAPTAIN and in January 1986 she was sold to Farstad Offshore and renamed FAR CAPTAIN. DOF purchased the vessel in […]
MAERSK INVENTOR at Malta – 18.05.2018. The 2018 built Isle of Man flagged (IOM) Subsea Support Vessel (SSV) MAERSK INVENTOR entered Valletta (Grand Harbour), Malta for the first time on Friday 18th May, 2018 at 0715 hrs.She’s the third out of four Stingray Class Subsea Support Vessel. Maersk ordered a series of four Stingray vessels in 2014. Designed together […]
ASSO JET III, Assodivers newest 1.3MW trencher ROV AssoJet III, Assodivers newest 1.3MW trencher ROV, has completed her maiden project on WesternLink with more than 40Km of jetting successfully with very impressive burial results/speeds!!! Congratulations to all Asso divers team and everyone onboard the ASTREA for this very important milestone…. The Astrea is a DP-2 […]
