Dutch firm Offshore Ship Designers has launched a new offshore wind farm maintenance vessel concept aimed at improving turbine uptime and reducing maintenance costs, while also offering a solution to the logistics problem of carrying out simultaneous multiple wind turbine maintenance. The Sea-Wind WMV vessel design is for a mother ship that would remain on station in offshore deepwater wind farms providing a safe haven tor multiple catamaran workboats carrying engineers to service the turbines. Describing the vessel as a submersible dock ship with a large floodable dock accessible from the stern, Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, Offshore Ship Designers' j UK arm, explains: 'It will provide accommodation for wind turbine engineers, service personnel, ships and support crew and can support helicopter operations in addition to its workboat deployment capability.
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