Subsea 7 has signed a contract to build a new Dive Support Vessel (DSV). Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will build the vessel that will be delivered in 2015.
With accommodation for 110 people, the DSV will incorporate an eighteen man saturation system supplied by Drass and rated for 300 m with two moon-pool deployed three man diving bells and two eighteen-man hyperbaric life-boats. The vessel will be equipped with six main engines in three separate engine rooms
designed to maximise performance in Dynamic Positioning (DP) Class III.
This will be the third new-build DSV to join the Subsea 7 fleet in recent years, having taken delivery of the Seven Atlantic in 2010 and Seven Havila in 2011.
Principal Characteristics
- Length: 123 m
- Breadth: 24m
- Depth: 10.5m
- Service speed: 12 knots
- Main crane: 120 t AHC Knuckle-boom crane
- Deck area: c.980m²
- Deck load: >1000 tonnes
- Accommodation: 110 POB
- ROV: 1 x OBSROV; facilities for 1 x WROV
Picture: Seven Havila (Subsea 7)
