SHIP INFORMATION

This is a comprehensive set of details of support vessels which includes information about the ships of more than 120 companies as well and many many photographs of the ships in action.

SHIP INFORMATION
FLEET LISTS
EUROPE PAGE 1
Acergy, Active, Acomarit, Aries Offshore, Arctia, Arktikmore, Bibby, Boa, Branding, BUE, Boston Putford, Bourbon Offshore, Deep Sea Supply, DOF, Eide, Eidsurf, Eidesvik, ER Schiffart
EUROPE PAGE 2
Esvagt, Fairmount, Fairplay, Farstad, Femco, Fletcher Shipping, Geoconsult, Gulf Offshore, Harmsbergung, Harrisons, Havila
EUROPE PAGE 3
Heerema, Island Offshore, JP Knight, K Line,  Maersk Supply, Marine Subsea, ITC, Noorhoek, Nordane, Mokster/Eidesvik, Myklebusthaug, North Star, Nomis, O.H.Meling, Olympic Shipping, OOC Offshore, Ostensjo Rederi, Petrobaltic, REM Offshore, Sartor Shipping
EUROPE PAGE 4
Sea Mar Shipping, Sealion, Siem Offshore, Simon Mokster, SMS, Solstad Offshore, TFDS, Telco, Trico, Varada Marine, Viking Supply Ships,Vroon
SOUTH ATLANTIC
Astro Maritima, CBO, Delba Maritima, Finarge Brasil, Gulf Brasil, GulfMark Trinidad, Norskan, Saveiros Camuyrano, Sea Trucks Group
INDIA
Garware, Greatship India, Great Offshore, Procyon Offshore, Varun Shipping
NORTH AMERICA PAGE 1
Abdon Callais, Atlantic Towing, C&G Boats, Deepocean, Edison Chouest, Harvey Gulf Marine, Hornbeck, L&M Botruc, Naviera B Tamaulipas, Odyssea, OIL, Otto Candies, Rowan, Seacor, Sea Nar Inc, Secunda, Tidewater.
NORTH AMERICA PAGE 2
Trico Marine
FAR EAST & AUSTRALIA
Alam Maritim, Britoil, Bumi Armada, CH Offshore, Go Offshore, Hallin, Huawei Offshore, IOS, Jaya Holdings, NOR Offshore, Petra Perdana, Swire Pacific,
MED & MIDDLE EAST
Adams, Augusta, Brodospas, EDT Offshore, Finarge Genova, Five Oceans Salvage, Mar Sol, MCT, Med Offshore, NJSC Chornomornaftogaz, Portosalvo, Remolques Maritimos, Seaways International, 

During the last 20 years your editor has written many articles for nautical and offshore publications, and latterly has written some stuff just for this site. This includes reports on both the loss of the Stevns Power and the investigation into the Bourbon Dolphin Accident. There are also some contributions from others.

LATEST - THE ELGIN GAS LEAK

DEEPWATER HORIZON
Deepwater Horizon - What Have we Done to Deserve This
Deepwater Horizon - After the BP Report
Deepwater Horizon - The Investigation
The Deepwater Horizon and the Late MMS.
The Deepwater Horizon - PR and Politics
The Deepwater Horizon - Forces at Work
The Deepwater Horizon - Where are we Now
ROVs Risers and Mud
The Deepwater Horizon Accident - Later
Something about the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Channelling the Oil Leak
Preventing Fires and Explosions on Offshore Installations.
ACCIDENTS
The Grounding of the Costa Concordia
The Loss of the Normand Rough
The Bourbon Dolphin Accident
The Loss of the Stevns Power
Another Marine Disaster
Something About the P36
The Cormorant Alpha Accident
The Loss of the Ocean Express
OPERATIONS
The Life of the Oil Mariner
Offshore Technology and the Kursk
Sovereign Explorer and the Black Marlin
SAFETY
PFEER, DCR and Verification
PFEER and the Dacon Scoop
Human Error and Heavy Weather Damage
Lifeboats and Offshore Installations
More About PFEER
The Offshore Safety Regime - Safe for the Next Decade
The Safety Case and its Future
Jigsaw
Collision Risk Management
Shuttle Tanker Collisions
A Good Prospect of  Recovery
TECHNICAL
The History of the UT 704
The Peterhead Connection
Goodbye Kiss
Uses for New Ships
Supporting Deepwater Drilling
Jack-up Moving - An Overview
Seismic Surveying
Breaking the Ice
Tank Cleaning and the Environment
More About Tank Cleaning
Datatrac
Tank Cleaning in 2004
CREATIVE WRITING
An Unusual Investigation
Gaia and Pollution
The True Price of Oil
Icebergs and Anchor-Handlers
Atlantic SOS
The Greatest Influence
How it Used to Be
Home-made Pizza
Goodbye Far Turbot
The Ship Manager
Running Aground
A Cook's Tale
Navigating the Channel
The Captain's Letter
GENERAL INTEREST
The Sealaunch Project
Ghost Ships of Hartlepool
Beam Him Up Scotty
Q790
The Bilbao OSV Conference
GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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If you would like to see offshore vessels on the move, alas not at oil rigs, but at least entering and leaving one of the busiest supply ship harbours in the world this is the place. There are eight views which can be selected, from the harbour entrance to the river Dee. It used to be capable of of being panned tilted and zoomed, but mindless people attempted to destroy the motors and prevent others from looking at the ships.
 

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Updated approximately 3 times a week.
Picture of the Day started as a picture posted on the internet every day taken from our office in Aberdeen. Today it is a picture of offshore activities taken some-where in the world and sent to us by one of our visitors. As well as looking at the picture it is well worth browsing through the archive.

PICTURE OF THE DAY ARCHIVES

2007 -  77 Photographs
2008 - 101 Photographs
2009 - 124 Photographs
2010 - 118 Photographs
2011 - 100 Photographs

NEWS AND VIEWS

Latest update 15/4/12
This is a sometimes intermittent monthly comment on things that are happening in the marine world. Hopefully it is informative and sometimes amusing, and at the very least provides an alterative view to what one might call the "official" one. We hope that there are a few sensible words here in a mad world.

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