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Dynamic positioning

Index Dynamic positioning

Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. [1]

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ABG Shipyard

ABG Shipyard Limited is an Ahmedabad-based shipbuilding company in India.

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Aiviq

Aiviq is an American icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) owned by Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO).

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Attitude control

Attitude control is controlling the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity like the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.

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Autonomous spaceport drone ship

An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform.

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Azipod

Azipod is an electric podded azimuth thruster produced by ABB Group.

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Commercial offshore diving

Commercial offshore diving, sometimes shortened to just offshore diving, is a branch of commercial diving, with divers working in support of the exploration and production sector of the oil and gas industry in places such as the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, the North Sea in the United Kingdom and Norway, and along the coast of Brazil.

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DCV Aegir

DCV Aegir is a Deep Water Construction Vessel owned by Heerema Marine Contractors and was christened during a festive ceremony in September 2013.

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DCV Balder

DCV Balder is a deepwater construction vessel (DCV) operated by Heerema Marine Contractors.

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Deepwater Discovery

Deepwater Discovery is a Samsung/Reading & Bates designed, fifth generation, deepwater dynamic positioning Vanuatu-flagged drillship owned and operated by Transocean.

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Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean.

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Deepwater Horizon explosion

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about southeast off the Louisiana coast.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill.

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Deepwater Millennium

Deepwater Millennium is a fifth generation Samsung/Reading & Bates designed, dynamic positioned (DP) Marshall Islands-flagged drillship owned by Transocean.

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DEME

Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (in short DEME) is an international group of specialised companies in the field of capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation, port infrastructure development, offshore related services for the oil & gas industry, farshore windfarm installation, environmental remediation a.o. The group is based in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, and has current operations on the five continents.

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Development Driller III

Development Driller III is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated under lease agreements by various petroleum exploration and production companies worldwide.

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Digital anchor

A digital anchor uses a location system (such as GPS) to provide dynamic positioning control of a stationary vehicle in a dynamic environment, such as a boat or ship being affected by currents and wind.

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Discoverer Clear Leader

Discoverer Clear Leader is a double hulled dynamically positioned drillship, capable of operating in moderate environments and water depths up to 12,000 feet (3,657m) using an, 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a outside diameter (OD) marine riser.

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Discoverer Enterprise

Discoverer Enterprise is a fifth generation deepwater double hulled dynamically positioned drillship (ASTANO FPSO design) owned and operated by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., capable of operating in moderate environments and water depths up to 3,049 m (10,000 ft) using an, 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a outside diameter (OD) marine riser.

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Diving chamber

A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than ambient pressure, a pressurised gas system to control the internal pressure, and a supply of breathing gas for the occupants.

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Diving safety

The safety of underwater diving depends on four factors: the environment, the equipment, behaviour of the individual diver and performance of the dive team.

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Diving support vessel

A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects.

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DP

DP may refer to.

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DPO

DPO may refer to.

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DPS

DPS may stand for.

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DPV

The abbreviation DPV may have the following meanings.

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Drillship

A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes.

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Electric boat

While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.

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Electro-technical officer

The Electro Technical Officer (ETO) is a licensed member of the engine department of a merchant ship as per Section A-III/6 of the STCW Code.

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Electronic logbook

An electronic logbook is a computer based software for recording (logging) states, events or simply conditions used for complex machines like aircraft, nuclear plants, particle accelerators, various areas on board ships replacing paper based logbooks, etc.

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Finnish pollution control vessel Louhi

Louhi (pennant number 999) is a Finnish multipurpose oil and chemical spill response vessel owned by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), but manned and operated by the Finnish Navy.

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Flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft)

Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions.

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FPSO Noble Seillean

The FPSO Noble Seillean was a dynamically positioned floating oil production, storage and offloading vessel.

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French ship Pourquoi Pas? (2005)

Pourquoi Pas? (Why Not?) is a research vessel built in Saint-Nazaire, France by Alstom Marine for IFREMER and the French Navy.

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Fugro

Fugro N.V. is a Dutch multinational public company headquartered in Leidschendam, the Netherlands, that provides geotechnical, survey, subsea, and geoscience services for clients, typically oil and gas, telecommunications cable, and infrastructure companies.

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Glomar Explorer

GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform initially built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division secret operation Project Azorian to recover the sunken Soviet submarine ''K-129'', lost in March 1968.

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Glossary of underwater diving terminology

This is a glossary of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving.

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GSF Development Driller II

GSF Development Driller II is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig owned and operated by Transocean.

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Helix Energy Solutions Group

Helix Energy Solutions Inc., known as Cal Dive International prior to 2006, is an American oil and gas services company headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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HMS Protector (A173)

HMS Protector is a Royal Navy ice patrol ship built in Norway in 2001.

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Hornbeck Offshore Services

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc through its subsidiaries, operates offshore supply vessels (OSVs), multi-purpose support vessels (MPSVs), and a to provide logistics support and specialty services to the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry, primarily in the United States, Gulf of Mexico, and select international markets.

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HSwMS Belos (A214)

HSwMS Belos (A214) is a submarine rescue ship in the Swedish Navy's 1st Submarine flotilla.

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Hydroacoustic Position Reference

Hydroacoustic Position Reference is a system to measure the relative position between a transmitter and a receiver under water.

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IMR vessel

An Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel is a highly technical vessel, deployed in the offshore industry.

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INS Nireekshak (A15)

INS Nireekshak (A15) is a diving support vessel (DSV) of Indian Navy.

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International Marine Contractors Association

International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is a leading international trade association for the marine contracting industry.

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Iolair

Iolair (Gaelic for eagle) is a specialised semi-submersible offshore platform designed for BP to support and service oil platforms in the North Sea and served as an emergency support vessel (ESV) in the Forties Oil Field.

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Kalman filter

Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, containing statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a single measurement alone, by estimating a joint probability distribution over the variables for each timeframe.

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Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS

Knutsen OAS Shipping is a privately owned shipping company located in Haugesund, Norway.

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Kongsberg Gruppen

Kongsberg Gruppen is an international technology group that supplies high-technology systems and solutions to customers in the merchant marine, defence, aerospace, offshore oil and gas industries, and renewable and utilities industries.

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Kongsberg Maritime

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) is a Norwegian technology enterprise within the Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG).

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LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61)

LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61) is a (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service.

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List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

The oil and gas industry uses many acronyms and abbreviations.

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Luna (yacht)

Luna is a luxury motor yacht constructed by Lloyd Werft of Bremerhaven, Germany.

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Mafuta (ship)

The Mafuta is a diamond-mining ship owned and operated by De Beers in the western coast of South Africa.

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Marine thruster

A marine thruster is a device for producing directed hydrodynamic thrust on a marine vehicle.

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Marion Dufresne (1995)

The Marion Dufresne II is a research and supply vessel named in honor of 18th century French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne launched in 1995 and having two main missions: logistic support for the French Austral Islands and oceanographic research.

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MS Enchantment of the Seas

MS Enchantment of the Seas is a Vision-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International.

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MSV Botnica

MSV Botnica is a multipurpose offshore support vessel and icebreaker built by Finnyards in Rauma, Finland, in 1998.

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MSV Fennica

MSV Fennica is a Finnish multipurpose icebreaker and platform supply vessel.

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MSV Nordica

MSV Nordica is a Finnish multipurpose icebreaker and platform supply vessel.

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MSV Seawell

Seawell entered service in 1987 as a diving support vessel but it is widely credited with pioneering subsea light well intervention in the North Sea after completing its first well intervention project in 1988.

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MV Claymore (1978)

MV Claymore was a car and passenger ferry built in 1978 for Caledonian MacBrayne.

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MV Havila Harmony

The MV Havila Harmony is a multi-role, dynamically-positioned support vessel built in 2005 for subsea construction and support operations.

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Nathaniel B. Palmer (icebreaker)

The Nathaniel B. Palmer is an ice-capable research ship owned by Offshore Service Vessels LLC, operated by Edison Chouest Offshore, Inc.

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Nautical stationkeeping

Station-keeping in a nautical situation is when a vessel is to.

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Neptuno (ship, 2015)

The Neptuno is a semi-submersible accommodation vessel.

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Odd Berg (ship-owner born 1907)

Odd Berg (9 July 1907 – 11 September 2005) was a Norwegian ship-owner.

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Offshore drilling

Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed.

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Offshore geotechnical engineering

Offshore geotechnical engineering is a sub-field of geotechnical engineering.

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Oil platform

An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed.

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ORV Sagar Nidhi

ORV Sagar Nidhi is an ice-strengthened multidisciplinary vessel operated by the National Institute of Ocean Technology, India.

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Pipe-laying ship

A pipelaying ship is a maritime vessel used in the construction of subsea infrastructure.

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Platform supply vessel

A Platform supply vessel (often abbreviated as PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and gas platforms.

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Positioning system

A positioning system is a mechanism for determining the location of an object in space.

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Project Mohole

Project Mohole was an ambitious attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, and to provide an Earth science complement to the high-profile Space Race.

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Q4000

Q4000 is a multi-purpose oil field construction and intervention vessel ordered in 1999 by Cal Dive International, and was built at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas for $180 million.

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Riserless Light Well Intervention

Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) enables the petroleum operators to increase the oil and gas recovery rate from subsea oil wells.

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Rock-dumping vessels

Rock dumping vessels are a category of watercraft that exist for the purpose of dumping rocks on the seabed.

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RRS Sir David Attenborough

RRS Sir David Attenborough is a research vessel owned by the Natural Environment Research Council, to be operated by the British Antarctic Survey for the purposes of both research and logistic support.

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RV Falkor

RV Falkor is an oceanographic research vessel, the flagship vessel of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.

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RV Knorr

R/V Knorr was a research vessel formerly owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the U.S. research community in coordination with and as a part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet.

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RV Kronprins Haakon

RV Kronprins Haakon is a Norwegian icebreaking polar research vessel jointly owned by the University of Tromsø (50%), Norwegian Polar Institute (30%) and Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (20%).

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RV Petrel

RV Petrel or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789) is a research vessel owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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RV Rachel Carson (2008)

RV Rachel Carson is a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, named in honor of the marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.

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RV Sikuliaq

RV Sikuliaq is an American research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

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S. A. Agulhas II

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Saipem 7000

Saipem 7000 is the world's second largest crane vessel, after the Thialf.

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Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel

The Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessels (OPV) ordered by the Irish Naval Service from October 2010.

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SCF Sakhalin

SCF Sakhalin (СКФ Сахалин) is a Russian icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel owned by SCF Sakhalin Vessels Limited, a subsidiary of Sovcomflot. The ship was built by Aker Finnyards Helsinki shipyard in Finland in 2005 as FESCO Sakhalin (ФЕСКО Сахалин) for Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), but was purchased by Sovcomflot and renamed in 2010. Since the beginning it has been in long-term charter for Exxon Neftegas Ltd. and used to supply oil platforms in the Sakhalin-I project.

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Schiehallion oilfield

The Schiehallion oilfield is a deepwater offshore oilfield approximately west of the Shetland Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Semi-submersible platform

A semi-submersible platform is a specialised marine vessel used in a number of specific offshore roles such as offshore drilling rigs, safety vessels, oil production platforms, and heavy lift cranes.

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Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying passengers or goods, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.

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Shuttle tanker

A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off-shore oil field as an alternative to constructing oil pipelines.

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Single steel drilling caisson

Single steel drilling caisson is a drill barge that was built for year-round oil exploration in shallow ice-covered waters in the Beaufort Sea.

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SpaceX reusable launch system development program

The SpaceX reusable launch system development program is a privately funded program to develop a set of new technologies for an orbital launch system that may be reused many times in a manner similar to the reusability of aircraft.

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SSCV Thialf

SSCV Thialf is a semi-submersible crane vessel operated by Heerema Marine Contractors, and it is the largest crane vessel in the world.

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Star Canopus diving accident

The Star Canopus diving accident was an incident in Scotland in November 1978 that claimed the lives of two British commercial divers.

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Stena Seaspread diving accident

Eighteen months after the Wildrake diving accident, the Thistle SALM was the site for another bell diving accident.

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Submarine pipeline

A submarine pipeline (also known as marine, subsea or offshore pipeline) is a pipeline that is laid on the seabed or below it inside a trench.

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Tiber Oil Field

No description.

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Turva

Turva is a Finnish offshore patrol vessel.

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USCG seagoing buoy tender

The USCG seagoing buoy tender is a type of United States Coast Guard cutter originally designed to service aids to navigation throughout the waters of the United States, and wherever American shipping interests require.

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USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)

USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker as well as the US Coast Guard's largest vessel.

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USCGC Henry Blake

USCGC Henry Blake (WLM-563) is a United States Coast Guard based out of Naval Station Everett in Everett, WA.

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USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1)

USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1) was a Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship and the lead ship of the her class.

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USS Guardian (MCM-5)

USS Guardian (MCM-5) was an of the United States Navy, and was the second Navy ship to bear that name.

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USS Ryer (AG-138)

USS Ryer (AG-138/AKL-9) was a Camano-class cargo ship constructed for the U.S. Army as the Freight and Supply Ship USA FS-361 shortly before the end of World War II.

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VB-10,000 (ship)

The VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin-gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges.

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Very large floating structure

Very large floating structures (VLFSs) or very large floating platforms (VLFPs) are manmade islands, which may be constructed to create floating airports, bridges, breakwaters, piers and docks, storage facilities (for oil & natural gas), wind and solar power plants, for military purposes, to create industrial space, emergency bases, entertainment facilities (such as casinos), recreation parks, mobile offshore structures and even for habitation.

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Wildrake diving accident

The Wildrake diving accident was an incident in Scotland in August 1979 that claimed the lives of two American commercial divers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_positioning

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