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:

INSPECTION Diving

 

In compliance with all major classification societies, ABC Diving performs:

Maritime INFRASTRUCTURES
In-Water SURVEY INSPECTIONS

Photos samples from Underwater survey reports

Most of the following photos were provided to the client despite (very) bad harbour visibility conditions (muddy water),
by using professional equipment and computer softwares. Reports were delivered within 24 hours:


Inspection and Photographic report (6/12/2013)


Damages caused by cyclone PAM (force 5) on 13th March 2015 in Vanuatu Port-Vila

Photos above: Amateurish attempt to plug the pipe. Fisheye lens.

 
Fire pit (40 meters inshore): Quality photos despite worse visibilty conditions (dark, particules, narrow space). Fisheye lens.


Seawall failures inspection, shallow water (4 meters), very poor visibility. Fisheye lens.


Seawall collapse, 6 meters deep, very poor visibility. Fisheye lens.


Slipway Underwater rail damage and rigging failure


Moorings inside harbour, 20 meters deep, poor visibility. Fisheye lens.

You may be interested to know about: our video and still-photography equipment