When on path to the Gulf of Mexico location, a completely loaded bulker struck a buoy off the coastline of Colombia harming the prop blades and aft seal setting up. A close comprehensive evaluation exposed a missing out on rope guard, the whole seal box being misshaped and disjointed from the demanding tube and all 5 drove blades harmed.
Trained and licensed UPE– dive specialists were activated, along with unique environment and appropriate devices, from AEGIR-Marine‘s Panama branch.
A full brand-new split kind seal setting up was purchased and moved, from supply, to place. Upon arrival the UPE-team signed up with a neighborhood companion providing workboat and help and established the dive terminal on website. Findings of the comprehensive prop evaluation were talked about with prop repair work professionals Plug & & De Boer, a repair service proposition and appropriate treatment sent and accepted by the going to course land surveyor. Repair and substitute treatments for the seal setting up were additionally accepted whereafter the group began making all called for prep work for the foresaid repair work.
Meanwhile a brand-new rope guard was in your area produced for later installment.
All 5 prop blades required to be chopped and consequently grinded in a comparable means to recover the hydrodynamic equilibrium. Damaged leading sides were ground smoothed.
During the prop repair work the seal real estate rings and seals were reduced and gotten rid of one at a time. Inspection of the lined revealed neither problems neither extreme grooves. The harmed demanding tube face and threaded openings were spruced up and a brand-new demanding flange placed and protected.
Once the Flexdock © remained in location and geared up with all safety and security devices and devices, the seals were bound and a brand-new split kind seal real estate mounted. After flushing and replenishing the demanding tube with oil, an effective stress examination and 8 hours leakage examination were done along with the wear down analyses taken.
During suitable and welding of the brand-new rope guard, the UPE-office sent a record to the neighborhood land surveyor and port state control that enabled the vessel to cruise and proceed its trip.
Once underway at its routine cruising rate, the technological supervisor reported the vessel was running generally with neither oil loss neither resonances.
