Flotel heading back out to field
An accommodation platform from which staff had to be evacuated after it started listing is on its way back out to sea after repairs.
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NHV orders 10 new helicopters
Southern North Sea helicopter transport provider NHV Helicopters is to boost its offshore business after ordering 10 new aircraft from Eurocopter in a deal worth about £93million.
Rescue: AAIB report reveals moments leading up to ditching
Yesterday's AAIB report gave details of the moments leading up to the incident.
Oil pumped from ship stranded on reef
AN OPERATION to extract oil from a container ship stranded on a reef near New Zealand is set to begin.
Pirates – not just of the Caribbean
The hijack of the Saudi-registered supertanker, Sirius Star and the taking captive of its crew, including a Scot, brought the issue of piracy to the fore, highlighting to those for whom such an issue is not an everyday concern that the scourge of piracy is not just a historical threat, but a very real one, alive and thriving today.
US embarks on fourth Arctic data collecting season using ships
WASHINGTON is sending an icebreaker into the Arctic to collect scientific data about the continental shelf and oceanic basins of its ice-bound seas. The US Coastguard cutter, Healy, has already embarked on the first of two cruises ordered by the US Extended Continental Shelf Task Force.