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Offshore Lifeboat Manufacturer sought by
Cruise Line Industry
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Princess Cruise Lines contracts Offshore
Lifeboat Manufacturer, Survival Systems
International, to replace Lifeboat Release
Mechanisms in 22 lifeboats aboard the Grand
Princess.
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The replacement project
was completed in April (2011) on the
Grand Princess during a 24-day dry dock
at the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport
, Bahamas.
"This is the largest makeover
we've ever undertaken for any of our
ships." Jan Swartz, Princess Cruise
Line’s Executive Vice President
said.
The intensive time-line was met by a
Survival Systems International Technical
Crew of 13 who removed unstable hooks in
only three weeks and replaced with the
Triple 5 Release Mechanism - An
Inherently Stable hook using a Lift Over
Center design.
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Survival Systems International
Technicians lining up
the Triple 5 Hook assembly for
installation and connection. |
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This massive replacement project by
Princess Cruise Lines includes Lifeboat
Release Mechanism replacement on the Pacific
Princess and Ocean Princess, all coming
in-line with recommendations made to
Administrations and Ship Owners to use the
Draft guidelines agreed by IMO’s
Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment
(DE), 53rd session, in order to reduce the
number of accidents involving lifeboats,
particularly those which occurred during
drills or inspection.
These are the same Authorities who govern
the Offshore Drilling Industry.
The design of the Princess Cruise Line’s
chosen replacement (Triple 5) is based on
the Survival Systems International Lifeboat
Manufacturer’s single cable design with a
proven record of successfully evacuating
over 2000 Offshore personnel in more than 60
emergency incidents. Both designs use the
weight of the boat to hold the hook closed
and not to open the hook under load.
Off-load safety with on-load functionality.
The Triple 5 Release Mechanism is also in
use in the Offshore Industry as a retrofit
in Twin-Fall Lifeboats.
Survival Systems International’s Survival
Capsule has been in use for over 40 years,
in over 30 countries for the world’s largest
oil and gas production and drilling
companies.
SSI can assure the
quality of a hook retrofit as Design,
Manufacture, Installation and on-going
Service are all performed in-house by
SSI direct employees and teams. SSI has
ISO 9001:2008 approvals for The Triple5
hook design, Manufacture, Installation
and Annual hook service. The advantage
of this in-house full-service capability
to our customers is that SSI takes full
responsibility for all phases of a hook
retrofit.
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