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New yard opens in Singapore - Splash247

PS> That is an old picture, since the “Mariner” was scrapped several years ago:

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Yes there are, but the good old Bucentaur is still doing her job, now for Fugro. Don’t know if the still use the very simple and effective motion compensation system she originally was equipped with though. Here is an even older core driller for Fugro, the Mariner, seen at Loyang Base, Singapore, 01. Oct. 2014: [20141001_142717] Originally built for J.Lauritzen as the Kaisa Dan for the Greenland trade in 1962. The distance between frames below main deck was only a foot or so. On my last ins…