Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 06/2017
Purpose-built SOV with walk-to-work capability officially named
Bibby Wavemaster 1 | In a recent ceremony at the cruise terminal in the Port of Rotterdam, the service operations vessel (SOV) Bibby Wave Master 1 , built at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania for UK-based Bibby Marine Services, was christened. The 90m-long, 20m-wide vessel has been designed by Damen and built specifically for the transfer and accommodation of offshore personnel and aims to maximise working time, technician comfort and safety. The Bibby WaveMaster 1 is the first of Damen’s new class of purpose-built SOVs with walk-to-work (W2W) capability. The Damen Group identified the need for such a vessel back in 2013 following consultations within the offshore renewables industry and launched a research programme that set out to develop an entirely new concept in cooperation with a number of key suppliers.