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Rover and work

ROVs in action.

Value sumption.” Saevik says she would prefer they and other oil companies brought their own ROV’s aboard. Statoil and other oil companies have chartered the Christina E. for ? ve assignments.

“I hired the personnel and the two ROVs,” she says, add- ing that the resulting earnings are “just not comparable” to pro? table ? shing. She con? rms, though, that the local ? shing vessels in the ? eets of offshore vessel owners are growing despite shrinking ? sh quotas.

To serve crews, the ROV pilot room is has the feel of an high-end OSV. The Danish cook is more chef than cook.

Saevik says she spent $700,000 on art.

We remove our shoes to follow a ? rst of? cer tiptoeing to the engine room in her socks. ABB has tweaked the elec- trical and propulsion system so the 2.5MW and 4.5MW engines can handle a seismic operation’s heavy tow. “It’s

EM seismic,” says Saevik.

“You’re towing a cable that pulses the ocean bottom.”

Several days later, we called Argus ROVs, who Saevik had hired for the Statoil gigs. A voice on the line told us their ROV operation aboard the Christina E “Went much quicker and smoother that on some other jobs. The crew were very ef? cient.” Class’s DNV GL has helped her get machinery and equipment ICE-C compliant for ROV sur- veys. It’s not known whether her HIPAP 500 hydro acous- tic sonar was put to work for offshore work (it surveyed the bottom for the environmental surveys). There’s deck space

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