Offshore Support Vessels – a practical guide

This practical guide demonstrates the
complex range and scope of offshore
support vessel activities and provides
guidelines for safety management which
can be applied to all disciplines on
board. The book covers dive support vessels, ROV support
vessels, construction vessels and pipelaying vessels and the
demands these specialist operations place on seamanship,
propulsion, engineering principles, stability, safety and working
with sub-contractors. An underlying theme is safety and
environmental management. It emphasises that planning is an
essential part of good seamanship.