Digging deep: the new seafloor industry

摘要

DESPITE BORROWING TECHNOLOGY from landside and offshore operations, the new breed of subsea mining vessels will be "a completely different kind of animal," says Dilip Sarangdhar of SeaTech Solutions, the design company behind the world's first Production Support and Storage Vessel which is nearing completion in China's Fujian Mawei yard. SeaTech's PSSV is "part heavy-lift vessel, part bulk carrier" with a nod to a drill ship thanks to a big central derrick says Sarangdhar. But, he adds however you describe it, "everything is larger than life" on this 100,000dwt ship.