Unique Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, delivered two new dive systems and a diving vessel worth around £5million to global services provider, Vertech. The Hydracraft 1500 Daughter Craft vessel, named the Vaila, is nearly 50ft long and designed for air diving activity. The hull is designed to provide an enhanced stability, optimizing operational efficiency. Unique Group’s UK managing director, Ray Hughes, handed the vessel over to Vertech’s UK managing director, John Marsden, and Vertech’s diving manager, Alan Melia in Aberdeen last week.
The Vaila is the first Daughter Craft built for purpose, from concept through to design, because other vessels used for the same purposes have been conversions of existing craft. The Daughter Craft system is designed for conducting diving operations for underwater inspection in locations otherwise inaccessible by larger vessels.
The project was initiated when Vertech (under their previous identity, Global Diving) formed a new commercial diving entity. The company approached Unique for surface-diving systems and the concept development for the Daughter Craft began in May 2014.
The Vaila can carry 10 people and will be based at a northeastern port, and can be deployed anywhere around the world. The vessel includes a single launch and recovery system, called the Macgregor G150 Davit, which is the largest-lifting davit manufactured by Macgregor to date.
Unique Group provides services, sales and equipment rental to marine, diving, hydrographic, oceanographic and energy industries and maintains a local presence in the Middle East, US, UK, South Africa, India and Singapore with more than 500 employees worldwide.
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