TDI-Brooks will increase its vessel capability by including a 75-meter DP2 vessel, R/V NAUTILUS to its fleet, a ship that may provide quite a lot of offshore help with subsea companies, development support, exploration, manufacturing, ROV and diving help, and scientific marine analysis and survey mapping, together with navy help.
This vessel is at the moment about 60% by means of its retrofit interval in Las Palmas, scheduled to finish its shipyard interval in late September 2023 after which transit to Trinidad for a number of geotechnical coring tasks. One of those packages will contain spud can analyses using the lately delivered Manta-200, deployed by means of the NAUTILUS mid-ship moonpool.
R/V NAUTILUS is a flexible vessel with (1) North American MCK-1240 higher forecastle deck STBD aspect SWL 7.1 ton crane, giant lodging (46 berths) and deck capability. The vessel will likely be outfitted with TDI-Brooks’ full geotechnical device equipment together with a set of modern geotechnical instruments for soil sampling and measurement. These embrace 0.5 and 1 meter field corers (BC), 6 and 9 meter piston corers (PC), 20 meter jumbo piston corers (JPC), cyclic t-bar instrument (TBAR), piezocone penetrometers together with a 40 meter CPT-Stinger and 10 meter Gravity CPT device (gCPT), newly acquired Geomil Manta-200 CPT, Neptune 3K & 5K vibracorers and TDI-Brooks’ designed pneumatic vibracorer. The Nautilus may have a Teledyne RESON full ocean depth multibeam echosounder (MBES) for surveys to ~2,500m water depth for performing hydrographic marine, floor geochemical “seep-hunting” (SGE) and seabed heatflow surveys (HF).
