About us

SALVAGE:

  • SUNKEN or STRANDED Ships
  • HARBOURS Clearance & Wreck Removal
  • Underwater Rapid Attachment (patches)

In-Water INSPECTION:

  • REASONS for Inspection
  • Survey Inspection EQUIPMENT
  • VESSEL In-Water Surveys
  • Marine INFRASTRUCTURE Surveys
  • MOORING Survey Inspection
  • General Survey Inspections
  • CORROSION Inspection
  • Measuring Metal Thickness
  • R.O.V. Inspection

In-Water CLEANING:

  • WHY Cleaning? HOW to clean?
  • HULL and RUDDER
  • PROPELLER (cleaning/polishing)
  • Marine INFRASTRUCTURE
  • Sacrificial ANODES
  • Water JETTING (high and low pressure)

In-Water REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE:

  • Shipwork
  • Cofferdam
  • Marine INFRASTRUCTURE (overview)
    • PILES Rehabilitation
    • PILES/PIPES Corrosion Prevention
  • Single Point Mooring System (CALM & SALM)
  • Wet WELDING & CUTTING

CIVIL WORKS & ENGINEERING:

  • Dredging & Excavation off small BARGE
  • Dredging, Jetting, Air-Lift, Dewatering by DIVERS
  • Underwater DRILLING & BREAKING
  • POST, PIPE, HOLLOW Section PILING with Portable hydraulic Hammer
  • Maritime CONSTRUCTION
  • Maritime DEMOLITION
  • Marine OUTFALLS & Diffusers
  • PIPELINES installation & maintenance
  • Engineering

SEABED & EARTH ANCHORING:

  • Cyclone Anchor Lines for rental
  • MOORING Line: what's the (best) choice?
  • HELICAL / SCREW Anchors information
  • SCREW Anchors Mooring Systems
  • PIPELING Anchoring
  • Jetty & Walkway FOUNDATIONS screwing
  • Expending Rock Anchors
  • Grouted Rock Anchors
  • Instant Foundation Anchors
  • Earth Retention


Chance Civil Engineering

  • MANTARAY Anchors
  • GROUND Anchor Systems


Williams Form Engineering Corporation

  • TOWAGE, Dive Support Vessel, Barges:
  • Tug Boat
  • Barges & Multipurpose Dive Platform   

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  • ABC Diving LTD International HOME page

Subsidiaries:

  • SEAWORKS (Vanuatu)
  • SEAWORKS (New Caledonia)

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Other useful Websites:

Diving

  • ADAS Training Courses/job/careers
  • New Zealand School of Commercial Diving Training
  • Commercial Diving New Caledonia

Nautical Institutions

  • IMCA International Marine Contractors Association
  • BIMCO Baltic & International Maritime Council
  • IMO International Maritime Organization
  • Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
  • Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology
  • International Federation of Shipmasters’ Associations
  • International Ship Managers’ Association
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Nautical Institute
  • Lloyd’s List

Maritime Information

  • Maritime Information
  • BRL Shipping Consultants
  • Marine Data
  • Marine Link
  • www.shippingjobs.com

ABC Diving® Ltd

Port Vila, P.O. Box 3242 VANUATU South Pacific

Complete Diving Services to Vessels & Civil Engineering Industry

We operate in north and south Pacific Islands; more specifically in Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Salomon, PNG...

Please, contact us for:

Operations from Vanuatu and New Caledonia

Ocean Going Ship:

Hull, Niche areas and Propeller UNDERWATER CLEANING
at least 12NM OFF SHORE

No pilot fee, no port fee, no agent fee...

We provide Biofouling Inspection Reports in compliance with NZ MPI Craft Risk Management Standard (CRMS) for biofouling on vessel intending to go to New Zealand
Full HD video-photo shooting in clear water

Domestic Fleet:

HULL CLEANING and PROPS CLEANING/POLISHING


Hull cleaning: SY before race, Domestic MV before dry-docking

General information

The surface covered by sea adherence is about 80% of total ship hull. Besides preventing direct surveying, sea adherence causes a decrease of ship’s speed and consequently augments CONSUMPTION of FUEL.

No matter the nature of biofouling and its thickness: we remove everything!

For inaccessible areas we operate water blaster equipment with a range of underwater wash jets and nozzles PAINT SAFE able to remove any kind of encrustations from light fouling to acorn barnacles and mussels.

Keep a "CLEAN HULL"

IN-WATER Hull Cleaning

Allows cleaning a ship from sea adherence without the use of an expensive dry dock.

In this case it would be possible to clean a ship much more often, for example, at least twice a year, before having to many worms, barnacles and... Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS).
Even in the case when it is necessary to make inspection, repair or restoration of a protective coat of a ship in a dry dock, it would be possible to make a ship's hull cleaning out of a dry dock first, which would allow using dry dock more efficiently.

Avoid your ship to be BANNED

Everyone involved in shipping is well aware about the issues regarding Non-Indigenous Marine Species and authorities power which may result in the vessel's entry banned in territorial waters or harbours.

- Proactive cleaning is much easier and cheaper than reactive cleaning! -

We implement self-propelled mechanical underwater cleaning machines with rotating tools (used in conjunction with smaller mechanical tools):

   

A vessel's fuel performance usually begins decreasing after six months from dry-dock and continues to decrease rapidly.

Underwater marine growth, barnacles, and/or sea grass can cost a ship-owner millions of extra dollars in time and fuel costs each year.

To prevent spending additional money for fuel, a ship should be cleaned twice a year.

 

HULL CLEANING INTERVALS:

Vessels must clean their hull less than 30 days prior to arrival to New Zealand Territory.

More generally, US Navy PROPELLER cleaning is recommended up to 6 times a year and HULL cleaning is recommended up to 3 times a year.

You may be interested with:

  • Propeller cleaning and polishing
  • Propeller cleaning efficiency and Hull performance.

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