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Toisa Orders Dive

Support/Offshore

Construction Vessel

Merwede Shipyard received a contract for the design and construction of a new

Diving Support/Offshore Construction vessel for Bermuda-based Toisa

Limited. The vessel will be built under yard No 712 and will be delivery will take place in the first quarter of 2008.

The vessel will be built in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of Det

Norske Veritas, to obtain the following notation: DNV X 1A1, EO, SF, Dynpos,

AUTRO, HELDK, DSV-SAT.

The ship has been designed by

Merwede Shipyard in concert with

Toisa. It will be a fully Dynamic

Positioned Diving Support/Offshore

Construction Vessel, suitable for world- wide operation.

As an enhanced sister vessel to the

Toisa Proteus, but with a fully inbuilt saturation Diving System, this vessel can, and will, support a wide variety of subsea operations. Within the saturation diving market, the existing world fleet of such vessels averages more than 20 years old. This order will provide the market with a DP3 vessel capable of meeting the higher and more demanding standards in safety, dynamic positioning operations, saturation diving and the use of environmentally sensitive vessels.

It will be built with a 12 man single bell saturation system. Its under-deck configuration allows for a range of equipment, while her large, clear deck area provides scope for a range of other applications.

The increasing need for subsea con- struction vessels to accommodate large numbers of contractor's personnel has also been addressed in designing the ship to accommodate up to 199 persons (excluding any divers in saturation).

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Shin Yang Builds

Tanker/Landing Craft to

Own Account

At the end of March, Shin Yang

Shipping took delivery of an interesting new combination tanker and landing barge, built at the company's own yard to a design by Singapore's Conan Wu and Associates. The 78 x 16-m vessel

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Main Particulars

Length, o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131.7 m

Length, pp, on design drafty . . . . . . . . . . . . .117.7 m

Breadth, molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 m

Depth, main deck molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.5 m

Draft, design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.25 m

Draft, scantling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.75 m

Ship's complement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 50 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

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