When a need to transport a number of large vessels (which can not sail), or move the oil rig giants (like BP's Thunder Horse PDQ) or may bring home battleship damaged (USS Cole) appears, then the MV Blue Marlin was the one who got the call to perform the job.
As quoted from versesofuniverse.blogspot.com, Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible vessel heavy lift, designed to transport semi-submersible drilling rigs are very large on the deck of the transport ship. The vessel is equipped with 38 cabins to load 60 people, exercise room, sauna and swimming facilities.
Blue Marlin and her sister ship MV Black Marlin is Marlin class heavy lift vessel. They belong to Offshore Heavy Transport Oslo, Norway, while their construction, respectively in April 2000 and November 1999, until July 6, 2001, when they were purchased by Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands.
HISTORY
United States Navy hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by a suicide bomber attack al Qaeda when docked in the port of Aden, Yemen. During late 2003, work was done on the Blue Marlin to increase capacity and add two pull propulsors to improve maneuverability.
Ships return began operating in January 2004, after the repair, the Blue Marlin delivered the oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ, which weighs 60,000 tons, to Corpus Christi, Texas, to complete manufacture.
In July 2005 Blue Marlin moved the gas refinery Snøhvit of the construction site in Cádiz to Hammerfest, 11-day trip. Transportation is filmed in a TV show on the Discovery Channel Extreme Engineering, and also a TV show on the History Channel Mega Movers.
In November 2005, Blue Marlin left Corpus Christi, Texas, to move the X-band Radar large sea-based keAdak, Alaska, through the southern tip of South America and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Arriving at Pearl Harbor on January 9, 2006, after traveling 15,000 miles. In January 2007, the Blue Marlin was employed to move two jack-up rigs, the Rowan Gorilla VI and the GlobalSantaFe Galaxy II, from Halifax Harbour to the North Sea.
Written By : Arbha ~ Public-DYK
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