Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:59:00 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:16:58 GMT Content-Length: 9519 Halter Marine Group, Inc. - Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
For release: July 29, 1997
Contact: A. J. Rizzo
Tel: 504-248-2237

 

HALTER MARINE GROUP DELIVERS "SEACOR VISION," 225 FOOT, 12,280 HP ANCHOR HANDLING/TOWING SUPPLY BOAT TO SEACOR MARINE. VESSEL IS 23RD HALTER BUILT OSV OPERATED BY SEACOR.

 

GULFPORT, Miss...Halter Marine Group, Gulfport, Miss., (AMEX:HLX) Gulfport, Miss., has delivered the SEACOR VISION, a 225 foot, 12,280 BHP, anchor handling/towing supply (AH/TS) to SEACOR Marine Inc., Houston, Tex. It is the first in a series of four vessels contracted by SEACOR Marine to Halter designed to meet requirements for deep water service in the Gulf of Mexico and the worldwide market. Built by Halter Marine Inc.'s, Moss Point Marine in Escatawpa, Miss., it is the 23rd Halter built offshore supply vessel to be operated by SEACOR.

John Dane III, chairman, president and CEO of the Halter Marine Group said, "This is a truly contemporary international work boat with a modern anchor handling system, a thoughtful layout to meet the needs of improved safe working conditions and accommodations to provide crew comfort, advanced position/station keeping systems that include stern and bow thrusters, dynamic positioning and enlarged cargo capacities. It represents a leap forward from the 1980's Gulf of Mexico style vessels to an international design."

Overall, the all-steel SEACOR VISION is 225 feet long, with a 52 foot beam and a 22 foot deep hull. Loaded draft is 18.7 feet and light draft is 11.7 feet. Her double bottom hull, and other safety features, meet Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requirements and the new U.S.C.G. subchapter "L" requirements.

The 12,280 brake horsepower, the most powerful ever in a Halter commercial AH/TS, is produced by four General Motors EMD 16-645-E7B diesel engines driving through Reintjes compound reverse/reduction gears. The compound gears give the captain the flexibility to disengage two of the four engines for greater fuel economy when they are not needed, and the vessel's 1,600 Kw generators can be operated independently through clutches from the CP system, or in conjunction with the propulsion system to make efficient use of the available horsepower.

Berg, 140 inch, four-blade controllable pitch propellers in Kort nozzles propel the vessel. Maneuverability is aided by two, 600 BHP, DC motor driven bowthrusters and one, 600 BHP, DC sternthruster. The double plate rudder incorporates a palm for ease of removal.Anchor handling and towing is handled by a Smatco 116 EAW 660 double drum waterfall 850HP DC electric winch with 660,000 pounds of pull. Each drum can hold 7,900 feet of three inch wire rope. SEACOR VISION recorded a bollard pull of 158.6 metric tonnes during sea trials.

Other towing and anchor handling equipment includes two retractable Triplex shark jaws chain stoppers each with a capacity of 350 tons, two retractable Triplex towing pins, an eight foot by 12 foot stern roller, two 45,000 lb. capacity tugger winches and two wire storage reels each with a capacity of 8000 feet of 3 1/4 inch wire rope.

Additional deck equipment includes two 10,000 lb. capstans, an anchor windlass and a five ton capacity crane. The 127 ft. by 41 ft. aft deck can accommodate up to 1200 long tons of cargo.

Below decks she is able to carry 8,000 cubic feet of dry drilling mud in tanks that are built into machinery spaces, not in ballast tanks which is typical of many OSV's. There is also space below decks for 2,100 BBL of liquid drilling muds and large chain lockers are also located below decks.

She is equipped with a Simrad/Robertson dynamic positioning system and her pilot house includes Berg electronic controls, Sailor VHF and SSB radios, Sperry radars and a Tokimee gyro and a Control General electro-hydraulic steering system, plus additional communications and navigation equipment.

There are accommodations for 24 persons in 16 staterooms with either single heads or heads shared by a maximum of four people. The main dining area seats 16. The lounge accommodates 10 and is equipped with modern audio visual equipment as well as library spaces.

Some capacities are: 195,000 USG fuel; 307,000 USG ballast drill water, and 170,800 USG fresh water. Maximum cruising speed is 15 knots and cruising speed is 12 knots.

The boat is U. S. flagged and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) classed, Maltese Cross A1, Maltese Cross AMS towing supply and is certificated freight and towing by the U. S. Coast Guard.

In commenting on the design modifications and new systems in the vessel, Dane said, "SEACOR VISION is well-named; it was a SEACOR-Halter effort intended to look forward. SEACOR's marketing, operations, and engineering group have worked closely with the Halter staff in creating a vessel for the next century.

Halter shipyards have built 22 other supply and tug supply boats for other companies that are now owned or operated by SEACOR. SEACOR also operates nine crew boats, one tug and one line launch built by Halter yards for other companies.

Halter Marine Group, Inc., includes 17 shipyards in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The company specializes in the design, construction, conversion and repair of a wide variety of vessels for commercial, government, and pleasure boat markets and mobile offshore drilling rigs. Shipyards of the Halter Marine Group have built more than 2,000 vessels in the past 40 years.

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