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  2. Marine construction - Wikipedia

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    Marine construction is the process of building structures in or adjacent to large bodies of water, usually the sea. These structures can be built for a variety of purposes, including transportation, energy production, and recreation. Marine construction can involve the use of a variety of building materials, predominantly steel and concrete ...

  3. Emergency tow vessel - Wikipedia

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    North Sea. Nordic: operating off the East Frisian Islands while based in Cuxhaven, bollard pull of 201 t [11] Mellum: 5 nmi (9.3 km) southwest off Heligoland, bollard pull of 100 t [12] Neuwerk: 5 nmi (9.3 km) southwest off Süderoogsand (Nordfriesland), bollard pull of 113 t [13] Baltic Sea. Bülk: Kiel Fjord, bollard pull of 40 t [14]

  4. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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    USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...

  5. Floating sheerleg - Wikipedia

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    Yorigami Maritime Construction Co., Ltd. 4,100 t 4,500 short tons [7] Japan Gulliver Scaldis 4,000 t 4,400 short tons [8] Luxemburg 洋翔 Yousho Yorigami Maritime Construction Co., Ltd. 4,000 t 4,400 short tons [7] Japan 第50吉田号 Yoshida No.50 Yoshida-Gumi Co., Ltd. 3,700 t 4,100 short tons [9] Japan 武蔵 Musashi Fukada Salvage 3,700 t

  6. Umm Qasr Port - Wikipedia

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    Umm Qasr Port is Iraq's only deep water port, part of the city of Umm Qasr.. Iraq's second biggest port in scale of size and goods shipped, ranking behind the port of Basra, it is strategically important, located on the western edge of the al-Faw peninsula, where the mouth of the Shatt al Arab waterway enters the Persian Gulf.

  7. Underwater construction - Wikipedia

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    Underwater cutting and welding, may be necessary, though in most cases it can be avoided in new construction. Commercial diving, is used when necessary or when it is an economical alternative, when work must be done by a human operator at an underwater worksite. Hyperbaric work may be appropriate in a pressurised caisson.

  8. Serco Marine Services - Wikipedia

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    Serco Marine Services supports the Naval Service and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) in both port and deep water operations. [7] In port and UK waters, Marine Services is primarily tasked with berthing and towage activities located at the three main naval bases; Devonport, Portsmouth and Clyde.

  9. Dolos - Wikipedia

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    Dolos construction yard - Yzerfontein, South Africa A man stands next to a dolos, showing its relative size. Dolosse moulds are in the foreground - Durban , South Africa Dolosse are normally made from un-reinforced concrete, poured into a steel mould.