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New Life for Miss Vivian New Life for Miss Vivian

A Corpus Christi crew boat runs with renewed power and grace

Miss Vivian runs a top speed of 21 knots with three PowerTech 6135SFM engines.

All images: John Deere two life rafts and 50 life preservers, the crew boat responds

Miss Vivian has a commanding to calls of distress. Miss Vivian was used to retrieve person- nel from an offshore oil platform during an approaching presence while plying the waters hurricane. It rescued a shrimp boat that lost engine power. off the Texas Gulf Coast.

Equipped with ?re pumps, the vessel was also used to help extinguish a shoreline ?re in Aransas Pass, Texas.

Hardworking crew boat Miss Vivian serves offshore oil However, after years of dutiful service, the 1979 vessel platforms and large ships moored in Corpus Christi Har- needed a new lease on life, according to Richard Palmietto, bor. Owned by Sea Level Marine, Inc., in Aransas Pass, Tex- owner of Sea Level Marine. Miss Vivian underwent a refur- as, the 28-meter (91-foot) welded aluminum vessel is U.S. bishing that included interior updates and new exterior paint.

Coast Guard-approved for 50 passengers, and its 15x5-meter Deep in the hull was a more serious problem. In an effort (50x15-foot) deck offers ample space to transport food pro- to minimize exhaust emissions and stay well within air qual- visions, equipment, and other supplies to offshore locations. ity attainment levels, some harbors no longer welcome boats

There’s a rather heroic side to Miss Vivian, too. Fitted with with aging two-cycle diesel engines. “With the old engines,

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