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Year in Review
Alan Cattel of
Enautix sent in this photo of the
Dockwise Vanguard stopped over in
Singapore during a transportation foat-on.
Sharon Roe shares this photo she calls “Ghost plaform of the Firth of Forth” featuring a platform lost in the fog near
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Peter Devine, of Versabar, sent in these photos of the company’s heavy lift vessel, , hard at work.
VB 10000
The decommissions a 2650-ton topside in
VB 10000 the Gulf of Mexico. The twin gantries rise 260ft above the waterline. With a rated lift capacity of 7200-tons it is the largest lift vessel ever built in the United States.
The uses a custom-engineered subsea VB 10000 lifting device, The Claw, to retrieve a 1800-ton topside from the sea foor. It had been sunk by a hurricane.
The photographs were taken by Versabar staf photographers.
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