In a period of only ten days Hydrex diver/technician teams have flown all over the planet to perform a wide range of underwater operations on five different continents. The services offered ranged from routine inspections and maintenance work all the way through to highly technical major repairs.
Among these jobs were two welding operations in the U.S.A., a propeller blade replacement in Bermuda and an azipod thruster operation in Japan. A stern tube seal repair and a spinner cone replacement were performed in Singapore, while a hull repair was carried out in Uruguay and a cofferdam operation was completed in India. Hydrex diver/technician teams also performed a doubler plate repair in Belgium, underwater cleaning work in the U.S.A. and the Bahamas on vessels coated with the Ecospeed hull coating system, and hull monitoring surveys in Spain, Gabon, the Netherlands, and Equatorial Guinea.
With close to 40 years of experience and well trained diving teams at its disposal, the Hydrex technical department knows how to handle this kind of situation without loss of quality or unnecessary loss of time for the customer.
All these operations were engineered and carried out in close cooperation with the customer and any third party suppliers. Whether it entails a simple maintenance operation or a complex repair or replacement of a ship’s external underwater equipment and machinery, Hydrex can take on, organize and execute the entire job, start to finish. This relieves the customer of all the hassle of coordination, planning and supervision. The technical department begins with evaluating the feasibility of an underwater operation, continue through mobilization of diver/technicians and equipment, and go all the way through to a successful execution and subsequent follow-up.
Through an ever-expanding, worldwide network of offices and service stations, Hydrex can provide a wide range of services economically at any location. Headquartered in the Belgian port of Antwerp, Hydrex has offices in Tampa (U.S.A), Algeciras (Spain), Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam (India), and Port Gentil (Gabon).
Hydrex diver training programs
One of the reasons Hydrex can offer its customers the high quality of service they deserve is the stringent training all divers go through, whether they work for the Hydrex main office in Antwerp or for one of the other offices. Besides being required to have official international commercial diver certificates and taking high standard external courses, including offshore courses, they also receive comprehensive in-house training.
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff , July 05, 2012; Image: Hydrex