Tuco Marine unveils new dive support boats

Denmark-based Tuco Marine is expanding its range of ProZero workboats and daughter crafts with two new dive support and ROV support vessels.

Optimised for underwater work as well as work on the surface to support divers and ROVs, the vessels are based on the hulls and flexible modular design of Tuco’s ProZero series.

The 14m dive support vessel features a spacious divers deck that can be protected from the weather by a large canopy protecting the crew working on deck from the environment and supplying sufficient light at night to operating 24/7 from the vessel. Tuco’s 15m version has the same external features, but offers the possibility of a closed dive control/ROV control room in the deck house.

Both vessels can be delivered with inboard diesels and jet drives or a triple OXE diesel outboard solution, which offers extra deck space and space below the aft deck.

The spacious aft working deck on both vessels are designed to be significantly lighter than other in the market, making hoisting easier, while the vessels’ light composition is also said to result in fuel savings since less horsepower is needed to reach cruising speed.

For ROV operations, the decks are equipped for mounting double davits and A-frames.

Tuco’s new vessels can be used to carry out underwater inspection, investigation, excavation, construction, and repair or maintenance of, machinery and structures, and the salvage of sunken property.

By Rachael Doyle