Cruise, Offshore and Specialised Sectors
Offshore and specialised portal: cruise and ferry operations, passenger-ship safety, drilling and production units, offshore wind vessels, heavy lift and tugs.
This portal covers the sectors outside mainstream cargo trades: cruise and ferry operations, passenger-ship safety, offshore drilling and production units, offshore wind vessels, heavy lift, dredgers, tugs and workboats, inland and coastal shipping, and yachts.
The governing instruments are the MODU Code for mobile offshore drilling units, the SOLAS requirements for passenger ships, the Large Yacht Code, and IMCA guidance for offshore marine contracting.
Ship-type definitions belong to Ships and Vessel Types; diving and ROV work belong to Underwater Diving Operations.
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- Offshore, Cruise and Specialised Vessels: Sector Overview
Offshore, cruise and specialised sectors compared: the MODU, SPS and IP Codes, SOLAS passenger rules, DP classes, yachts, tugs, dredgers and inland craft.
- Cruise and Passenger Ship Safety Under SOLAS
Cruise and passenger ship safety under SOLAS: Safe Return to Port, damage stability, life-saving appliances, muster, fire zones and ro-pax versus cruise risk.
- Offshore Drilling and Wells: MODU, BOP, Well Control
Offshore drilling from the unit and the well: MODU Code types and stability, station keeping, riser, BOP stack, well barriers, kick control and Macondo rules.
- FPSO: Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Unit
An FPSO processes, stores and offloads oil on station. Its moorings, offloading, class rules and how MARPOL Annex I Reg 39 and MEPC.311(73) apply to it.
- Subsea, Pipelay and Offshore Installation
Pipelay by S-lay, J-lay and reel-lay, SURF hardware, trenching, riser and topside installation, the vessels that do it, and the DNV and API standards behind it.
- Dynamic Positioning (DP): Classes, Vessels, Operations
Dynamic positioning explained: how DP differs from anchoring, the DP1, DP2 and DP3 equipment classes, class notations, DP vessel types and the DPO career path.
- Offshore Support Vessels: Types, Codes, Operations
Offshore support vessels explained: PSV, AHTS, CTV and SOV types, IMO codes, bollard pull, the 500 m safety zone, weather windows and marine warranty survey.
- Marine Helicopter Operations and Helidecks
Helideck rules for ships and offshore units: SOLAS II-2/18, FSS Code Chapter 17, MODU Code Chapter 13 and CAP 437 on D-value, foam, markings, HMS and winching.
All articles in this portal
11 articles, plus 164 in preparation.
- Cruise and Passenger Ship Safety Under SOLAS
- Dynamic Positioning (DP): Classes, Vessels, Operations
- FPSO: Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Unit
- How DP Systems Work: Thrusters, References, WCFDI
- Marine Helicopter Operations and Helidecks
- Offshore Cranes and Heavy Lifting
- Offshore Drilling and Wells: MODU, BOP, Well Control
- Offshore Permit-to-Work and Emergency Response
- Offshore Support Vessels: Types, Codes, Operations
- Offshore, Cruise and Specialised Vessels: Sector Overview
- Subsea, Pipelay and Offshore Installation