NORFOLK SWIFT Wheelhouse Extension

NORFOLK SWIFT Wheelhouse Extension

The NORFOLK SWIFT is currently having its wheel house extended to increase its seating capacity from 8 to 12 passengers plus 2 crew. The work is being carried out by John Buckley and his team at Harbour Marine Services of Southwold, Suffolk.

The new wheel house layout will allow for 12 individual mechanical suspension seats lap belts, arm and headrests for increased crew comfort and safety. On completion of the work, the vessel is expected to resume its role as a fast response and crew transfer vessel in the offshore wind industry.

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Contract Completion: Killybegs Outfall

Norfolk Marine have completed the installation of the subsea elements for the Killybegs waste water outfall as a sub contract for Visser & Smit Hanab, working for main contractor BAM. Our 8 man dive team, working from the Skerchi construction barge, carried out the following operations in 30m of water.

•     Location of directional drill bit on seabed and airlifting of drill string exit point
•     Setting up of subsea pipe pull equipment and monitoring pull
•     Underwater cutting of 450mm diameter HDPE pipe wall thickness 35mm
•     Connection of pipe transition piece
•     Construction of 150m long subsea pipeline and diffuser
•     Installation of precast concrete articulated scour mattress
•     Installation of stainless steel diffuser guards
•     Backfilling of pipeline trench