Record for thruster installation

It also has a DPS2 dynamic positioning system. This drives eight 2600KW thrusters which were installed by two teams of Unidive divers in just six days!

“Typically, such a job would take 10 days to complete but we have a lot of experience with thruster installation,” says Senior Operations Manager Andrew Ng. “We are the biggest in thruster installation and we have the most experienced divers and dive supervisors for the job!”

With thruster installation for 27 new rigs stretching back to 1998, Unidive has amassed the greatest experience and skill to the fastest job. In the case of ENSCO 8502 the rig builders towed the rig to the anchorage where the divers did the underwater installation.

Unidive adds 3 dive boats

Unidive is investing nearly $5 million to buy and retrofit three more dive workboats to further improve safety and increases services to customers.

The three vessels, Unidive 8, Unidive 9, and Unidive 10, will enter service by January 2010. The Aluminium-hull vessels are designed to operate outside port limits and have been purpose-retrofitted and promise to be some of the safest and best-equipped craft.

“Each boat has been extensively retrofitted and come complete with air dive spread on Surface supplied breathing apparatus and good for three divers and a support team,” says Unidive MD Edwin Tan himself a trained and experienced diver.

“We want to conform to a higher standard of safety in diving, so we are replacing two existing wooden-hull boats with these three.” The new craft are compartmentalised to make them virtually sink-proof.

The survey-class craft are 60-footers capable of 22 knots.

Our dive boats shall be audited for full compliance against the criteria of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) for portable diving systems and maintain in accordance with the IMCA requirements.