San Juan authorities will certainly utilize the brand-new Metal Shark to sustain a wide variety of objectives
Jeanerette, La., based shipbuilder Metal Shark has actually supplied a brand-new 36-foot welded-aluminum patrol watercraft to the San Juan, Puerto Rico, Police Department.
The brand-new patrol watercraft is a 36 Fearless stepped-bottom facility console vessel constructed at Metal Shark’s Jeanerette shipyard as well as custom-configured to fulfill the customized demands of the San Juan Police Department.
The high efficiency craft has actually been geared up with three-way 300 HP Suzuki outboard engines as well as gets to a full throttle over of 50 knots. Other mission-enhancing functions consist of a customized 36 inch dive door as well as dive ladder, undersea illumination, twelve dive storage tank owners, Garmin Radar, as well as FLIR electronic camera.
Metal Shark has actually currently supplied 5 brand-new patrol watercrafts in the previous 3 years to Puerto Rico, where the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), likewise runs a fleet of Metal Shark vessels.
“The design, construction, and performance characteristics of this highly capable craft have been extensively proven in Puerto Rico’s demanding open-ocean conditions, with the Puerto Rico Police Department logging over 3,000 hours per year in its Metal Shark 36 Fearless vessels,” claimed Metal Shark’s vice head of state of global company growth,Henry Irizarry “Metal Shark’s performance, durability, and safety, as demonstrated and proven by the PRPD over years of around-the-clock operation, made the selection of this vessel a logical choice for the San Juan Police.”
The San Juan authorities will certainly utilize the brand-new Metal Shark to sustain a wide variety of objectives. The division supplies port safety as well as police to the Port of San Juan as well as the cosmopolitan San Juan coastline, as well as likewise sustains dive procedures throughout the island.
“Puerto Rico presents unique challenges from a maritime law enforcement perspective due to the vast range of missions routinely conducted by its agencies, including disaster relief, search and rescue, counter narcotics, border patrol, and interdiction missions, all of which may be conducted in heavy offshore conditions,” kept in mind Irizarry.
Metal Shark has numerous various other tasks for Puerto Rico in different phases of growth, consisting of a customized 27-foot vessel presently being constructed for one more Puerto Rico federal government firm.
