Here is the Gulf Fleet 36 in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2002. There is a lot we can learn about the status of the offshore supply business in the Gulf from this photograph. The first is that this is a Halter 180 footer, a class of ship which has been in the field for more than 20 years, and by now is long in the tooth. It is one of the Gulf Fleet fleet, which was bought earlier by Zapata, and by now is part of Tidewater. On the fore end of the deck is a Smatco winch, powered by its own V8 GM engine and almost certainly it is powered by two EMDs producing 2000 bhp each. The funnels, known in the gulf as "North Sea stacks", appear to be placed so as to avoid getting seas down the exhausts, but actually the exhaust pipes still emerged from a point half way down the deck and were piped forward behind the crash barriers. According to one website it is still out there now call "Red Sea Diamond".

Photo taken by Oddeir Refvik in 2002 and posted here on 19th April 2020.