Faroe Maritime Services offered all kinds of maritime services in harbors and in designated anchorage areas around the Faroe Islands.
This also includes underwater services.
With the teamwork of the Faroes underwater Services, we are able to perform underwater maintenance & repair and also hull cleaning of ships during port operations and or on the anchorage.
All services are approved by Bureau Veritas and according to local environmental regulations.
Underwater repair, overhaul of propulsion systems, and regular maintenance such as hull cleaning and propeller polishing.
- UNDERWATER HULL INSPECTION
- We have really good video and photo equipment for visual and CCTV inspection of the submerged part of the vessel to determine the general condition.
- Propeller polishing.
- We polish the propeller with a water-pressure-powered polishing machine. All hard fouling will first be scraped clean, and then we polish it.
and we deliver approved reports, with figures, findings, and photos of before and after polishing has been performed.
- We polish the propeller with a water-pressure-powered polishing machine. All hard fouling will first be scraped clean, and then we polish it.
- Hull Cleaning including vertical side and bottom cleaning.
- We use a specially constructed 3X3 brush cart with the ability to clean up to 300 m2/h and we different brushes for silicone antifouling paint and different levels of fouling to get the best possible result and to make the hull clean without damage on the coating of the vessel.
- Sea chest cleaning
- includes cleaning the sea chest and grids if more than 40% fouled.
- High-pressure flushing
- We do high-pressure flushing according to the customer’s wishes, where we put safety and quality first.
- Underwater thickness measurements.
- We perform thickness measurements on ships, ports, and all other steel structures, and we deliver approved reports, with figures, findings, and photos.
The equipment used is a Cygnus 1 multiple-echo sounding.
- We perform thickness measurements on ships, ports, and all other steel structures, and we deliver approved reports, with figures, findings, and photos.
- Underwater welding.
- We do everything within welding repair and new welding. Our divers do have a lot of experience in sheet piling work and ship repairs.
- Underwater Cutting/Burning
- With many years of experience in underwater cutting, and our divers have excellent technical knowledge, we guarantee a high-quality and time-effective result.
We believe that by using these services, shipowners will save both time on repair and maintenance and a bow that shipowners do save money by having a Clean hull as it enhances fuel efficiency.
So minimal downtime – and enabling operators to avoid the potential loss of income of having to bring a vessel into dry dock.
That is why ship owners should consider using Faroe underwater services which include: