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    Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters...
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    components of the diving support vessel are: Dynamic Positioning – Controlled by a computer with input from position reference systems (DGPS, Transponders,...
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    a supply vessel cargo. Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computerised system which allows vessels to maintain a certain position or heading by controlling...
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  • clean petroleum tankers alongside specialist activities including dynamic positioning shuttle tankers (DPSTs), hydro-carbon capture and ship-to-ship lightering...
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    determination Dynamic positioning Geo-blocking Geocoding Geodetic positioning GPS tracking unit Geotagging Geotargeting Indoor positioning Latitude determination...
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  • vessel Lorelay, the world's first pipelay vessel to operate on full dynamic positioning, in 1986. It also owns Pioneering Spirit, the world's largest vessel...
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    drillships are maintained at the required drilling location using dynamic positioning. Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnatsɨ wukaˈɕɛvitʂ];...
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    offshore installations. Their most well known products exist within dynamic positioning systems, marine automation and surveillance systems, process automation...
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  • North Sea, supported by the support vessel Bibby Topaz. The vessel's dynamic positioning system, supplied by Kongsberg Maritime, failed. This caused the vessel...
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  • get a position as a global technology leader. The production of gas turbines in 1969 Submarine systems in 1969-1970 Subsea and dynamic positioning (DP)...
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  • drillships are maintained at the required drilling location using dynamic positioning. Submarine boat Submersible boat This set index article includes...
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    Valhall Production and Hotel topside of approximately 11,600 tonnes on Dynamic Positioning. The previous world record set at Sabratha was performed on the vessel's...
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    by inventing what is now known as dynamic positioning. By mounting four large outboard motors on the ship, positioning the ship within surrounding moorings...
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    700 short tons). It is equipped with a class III dynamic positioning system. Propulsion and position keeping is by six 5,500-kW retractable azimuthing...
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  • water. It is sometimes used for vessels with dynamic positioning to either measure the relative position between a fixed underwater transmitter or to...
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    signature of the MV North Sea Giant (IMO: 9524073, MMSI: 248039000) dynamic positioning vessel was measured by the International Centre for Island Technology...
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    slightly larger & newer sister ship MS Nieuw Amsterdam. She also has dynamic positioning abilities using three 1.9 MW (2,500 hp) bow thrusters and two 17...
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    ultra-deepwater applications, equipped with the latest and most advanced dynamic positioning systems. The first drillship was the CUSS I, designed by Robert F...
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    already established, and which presents its own set of hazards, or by dynamic positioning, which must be sufficiently reliable and fail-safe for the expected...
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    for dynamically positioned vessels and take-home propulsion for military vessels. Underwater-mountable thrusters are used as dynamic positioning propulsion...
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    (10 m) of length to her midsection. In 2003 a Dynamic Positioning System capable of holding the ship in position within one meter was installed providing capability...
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    drillships are maintained at the required drilling location using dynamic positioning. Around 1891, the first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms...
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    two major cruise ships to be equipped with a Dynamic Positioning System frequently used to maintain position while in port, particularly when tender boats...
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    This normally consists of a taut hawser arrangement or dynamic positioning to maintain the position relative to the field, an off-loading arrangement of...
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    diesel-electric ships or vessels equipped with sophisticated systems such as dynamic positioning. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) amended STCW 95 (also...
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    horsepower (750 kW) dynamic positioning thrusters for station keeping without anchors and mooring lines. The dynamic positioning system is rated to class...
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    new-build, and the need to house sophisticated equipment – such as a dynamic positioning system – in the hull. In 2007, twenty years after the idea was first...
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  • Coordinate-measuring machine Dynamic positioning Dimensional metrology Eye tracking Geodesy Geolocation Handheld tracker Indoor positioning system (IPS) Mobile...
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    position. Typical marine logbooks are: Deck logbook – Records navigational events related to the voyage and operations on board Dynamic positioning logbook...
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  • but it was not operable. The vessel experienced an issue with her dynamic positioning system, having been observed at around 15:30 that her starboard azimuth...
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