Salvage Vessel SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN Departs Nevsky

On July 19th, 2013, the Delivery-Acceptance act for the second multipurpose salvage vessel of MPSV07 project “SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN” was signed. The vessel was built at Nevsky Shipyard for the Directorate of State Contractor of Marine Transport Development Program of Federal Marine and River Transport of Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

The project MPSV07 is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC. The vessel features an overall length of  73 m, overall width of 16.6 m and a depth of 6.7 m.

It boasts of 4 MW capacity power plant  and has the ability to develop a speed of 15knots. SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN has a bollard pull of  70 t and can spend 20 days at sea without the need to resupply. It accommodates a crew of 20 persons and can provide shelter to up to 81 survivors.

Ship’s class:

• КМ (*) Arc5 [1] AUT1-ICS OMBO FF3WS DYNPOS-2 EPP Salvage ship

The multipurpose salvage vessel is intended for carrying out various tasks such as stand by and rescue operations in areas of shipping, fishing, marine oil and gas fields. In addition, it will provide technical support and assistance to shipping, sea food production areas, along with servicing of transport operations in ports. The vessel’s range of services will also include search for and assistance to vessels in distress, along with search, rescue, evacuation and accommodation of survivors, provision of first aid to injured persons, refloating  of damaged vessels, pumping out water from flooded compartments along with towing of damaged vessels and objects to shelter area and also providing sea towing of vessels, floating objects and structures in ice conditions and at open water.

Other services entail:

• providing assistance to vessels and rescue operations in ice conditions and at open water;
•  providing fire fighting at floating and coastal objects accessible from sea;
• supply and logistic support, including performing underwater engineering operations with divers at depth up to 60 m;
• performance of deep-water diving engineering operations with an opportunity of long stay of divers under pressure with working depth up to 300 m;
•  fire-fighting of  burning water fuel, oil and oil product spills emergency response services;
• survey and underwater hull cleaning of vessels, floating and coastal objects;
• inspection of sea-bottom and damaged objects on depths up to 1000 m.

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Press release, July 22, 2013