Drillships are Huge. Literally.

On our recent stay in Curacao, the the Titanium Explorer, (view from our balcony above) a drillship owned by the Vantage conglomerate was having a crew changeover at the dock outside our hotel.  Its a $630 million ship which
...is a self-propelled, dynamically positioned drillship suited for drilling in remote locations because of its mobility and large load carrying capacity. It is currently equipped for drilling in water depths up to 10,000 feet, and is designed to drill in water depths up to 12,000 feet. Another Vantage subsidiary is party to an eight-year contract with Petrobras to operate the Titanium Explorer.
Its really, really hard to get perspective on the ship, but the next Patel Snap shows you the dock slightly better view of the dock and the lettering on the bow (each of the letters is around 8 feet high!).
So yeah, the whole ship is  781 ft. long by 137 ft. wide.  Basically, HUGE.

A night shot...
And below, its location thanks to MarineTraffic.com (note, a blank map means its out of range) -->

Comments

wreckedred said…
Great picture of an enormous ship
Unknown said…
I am a employee of vantage, and Work on board the titanium. I was on the off going crew, we had just spent close to fourty days transiting from marittous to the port there in curaçao.

Popular posts from this blog

Cannonball Tree!