VIKING Life-Saving Equipment as well as maritime electrical motor systems programmer Evoy released an electrically powered 6.55 m rescue watercraft, the VIKING Norsafe E-Mako -655. The Mako -655 is an existing rescue watercraft style that, up previously, has actually just been supplied with standard engine propulsion because of the present IMO/SOLAS law which specifies that rescue watercrafts of this kind need to contend the very least one inner burning engine.
VIKING Norsafe as well as Evoy are testing what they call a “somewhat out of date convention” with their tool to long-lasting objective of rescinding the existing regulation with the help of DNV, that have actually sent a SOLAS Novel Design application on behalf of the brand-new innovation.
“Standards and regulations require a lifeboat to be started and stopped routinely to verify that they are operational,” said Erik Mostert, head of R&D, VIKING Norsafe. “Evoy´s electric motors and battery systems eliminate the potential risks of wear and deterioration of internal combustion engines in association with this start/stop process.”