Diving support vessel
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A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. Basic requirements are the ability to keep station accurately and reliably throughout a diving opera
Design of the Nistar-class diving support vessel of the Indian Navy
CSV Skandi Singapore departing Fremantle, Australia
The 2015 launched DSV Curtis Marshall
Gulmar Da Vinci in Albert Dock
Moon pool
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A moon pool or moonpool is an equipment deployment and retrieval feature used by marine drilling platforms, drillships, diving support vessels, fishing vessels, marine research vessels, underwater exp
Diving support vessel
…but the platform presents some inherent hazards, particularly the thrusters, making launch and recovery by diving bell widespread. They may use a moonpool to shelter the position where the bell or ROV enters and exits the water, and the launch and recovery system may also use a bell cursor to constrain…
Underside of the Research Vessel Western Flyer, showing its moon pool between the two hulls
NEEMO 13 Crew in the wet porch/moon pool of the Aquarius habitat