Houston-based Hydra has converted inspection, maintenance and repair vessel Subsea Responder to a diving support vessel in anticipation of an uptick in offshore projects.
The offshore construction and subsea firm is seeking to enter the saturation diving market and to this end has fitted the vessel with an SAT-14 12-person system to allow for longer in-water working time and greater depths of operations than surface diving would permit.
Hydra's president and chief executive Trevor Davis said “The oil and gas industry is showing signs of a bounce back after reaching a five-year low. During that time, not all companies servicing the industry survived, which has left a need in the marketplace we’re eager to fill.”
Explaining the decision to pick Subsea Responder for conversion, Hydra project manager Brent Sappington said “As an inspection, maintenance and repair vessel, it already had existing equipment and a 60-tonne active heave compensated crane that made the alteration ideal.”
Subsea Responder measures 16.1 m in length by 16.5 m in breadth and can accomodate 57 people. The vessel has a dynamic positioning class of DP2 and can carry a heavy work-class ROV.
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