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The CBO Manoella was in the subsea news last years when it was converted from a standard PSV into an ROV ship. The ship is one of nine UT 715s, a unique design operated by CBO out in Brazilian waters. It has a Rolls- Royce crane capable of operating at water depths of 3000 metres which can be fitted either with wire or fibre rope. There seem to be a lot of ROV ships out there as well as numerous pipelayers. What can they all be up to? For those who might not be familiar in very deep water the weight of the crane wire becomes significant - hence the need for fibre.
I was surprised to find that I had never included one of the "Jigsaw" ships as a pic of the day so here is the Caledonian Vanguard in Aberdeen's Tidal Basin in 2006. Most of the photos I have show the davits empty but this one shows one of the ARRCs hanging there. I have written elsewhere on this site about the development and the eventual departure of these craft, when finally the ships were turned into straight platform ships and the ARRCs were put up for sale, later purchased so I have been told by the UK Border Force. I good use for them i should think.
This is just a small item of publicity for one of my other activities, that of writing fiction, and I take the opportunity of including it on my front page just in case any of my visitors would like to download some of my writing which is not involved in the marine world, although I admit that there is one sea story in the book. At present it can be downloaded as an ebook for any device or as a mobi for Kindles. The way scribl works is that new stuff can be downloaded for nothing, but with increasing popularity there will be a price. So download it for nothing today! Compostela Tales