Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK – Bibby Offshore has deployed what it claims is a pioneering diving safety system in the North Sea.
The contractor equipped its divers with the compact bailout rebreathing apparatus (COBRA), during a recent contract for BP.
The team, working in water depths of up to 110 m (361 ft), used the equipment to conduct electrical umbilical installation, subsea control module change-out, production and controls system integrity testing, de-isolation, and commissioning services.
COBRA, developed by JFD, is a bailout system that provides divers with up to 45 minutes of fully independent breathing gas in an emergency.
Howard Woodcock, chief executive of Bibby Offshore, said: “COBRA significantly enhances the time our saturation divers have to return to the diving bell in an emergency situation - a step-change in improving subsea safety and one we will adopt in the future across our fleet.”
04/20/2018
