Another refit period complete, and the Lodesman has a new Cat 2 certificate. The stability booklet has been updated for the alterations made to the vessel. The new additions include raising the bulwarks at the bow giving a complete set of handrails around the boat at 1M high. The deckhouse has a new wet room and there is a new Simrad electronics package in the wheel house.

Curious Prawn

                                             Lodesman at work.

                                                               

                                          This skate was seen while surveying

Block salvage from beneath the sand.

Magnetometer found and rescued from 75M of the West Coast of Orkney

ADCP rescue from 72M in the Pentland Firth, using Falcon 12169 and 4 function manipulator.

The dive took 14 mins, and included locating ADCP from the as laid position.

March 2013

Lodesman and the team spent 25 days in Shetland doing Inter Island cable surveys before coming back to Orkney to finish off the Inter Island cable surveys started in February.
North Link ferry going past the Fair Isle.