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DAVIT and LIFEBOAT
SERVICING |
Servicing davit winches on "Spirit of Tasmania"
The following
manufacturers' equipment is serviced by Survival Offshore
Systems
Schat Davit Company davit systems (now part of the
Umoe group).
Watercraft International lifeboats & davit
systems (now part of the Umoe group).
Wellin
Davits
Harding lifeboats & davit systems (also part of
the Umoe group).
Davit International GmbH davit
systems.
Sekigahara davit systems.
Survival
Systems (Whittaker) lifeboat and winch systems.
Vestdavit AS
hydraulic davit systems
Norsafe Lifeboat hooks and
release mechanisms
Fassmer GmbH Lifeboat
hooks and hydrostatic releases.
Ernst Hatecke GmbH
Lifeboat hooks
Titan lifeboat hooks and hydrostatic
interlocks.
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Our service division
carries out survival equipment installation and maintenance on oil
& gas production platforms, ferries, coastal shipping and
maritime training establishments. Our workshops provide major
refurbishment facilities offering fibreglass repairs, welding and
steel / aluminium fabrication, metal turning and milling, rigging
and wire swaging, stainless steel fabrication, pipe bending,
seamless vessel hydrostatic testing, diesel engine
overhaul.
We also have a separate sand blasting and painting
facility. |
A life raft under
inspection at the service centre
in Port Albert. |
Survival Offshore
Systems has a purpose built life raft servicing facility. The
building is fully insulated, with a special floor finish. A 3 tonne
overhead crane and 4000 litre water storage with pump in / pump out
control and calibrated flow meter enables static load testing of
davit launched life rafts. Service and testing of lifeboat anti
entrapment kits and fast rescue craft self righting kits is also
carried out in this section. A hydrostatic test station has
also been installed to test H.P. Storage cylinders to 150 litre
capacity. | We have certification for servicing
Coastal, Solas and recreational life rafts. Our facility has had to meet
the highest standards to gain accreditation, to ensure that your survival
equipment is serviced to the highest of safety
standards.
We service the following categories:
Coastal - Commercial
fishing and charter boat life raft sales and service. We supply USL
approved life jackets, life buoys, lights, EPIRBS, hydrostatic release
units, Pains Wessex distress signals, and most other survey items. We also
offer a Talurit swaging service for up to 9 mm wire. Hydrostatic testing
of storage cylinders and scuba tanks can also be
arranged.
Solas - Survey items required for Solas survey including Solas
life raft sales, lifeboat rations and provisions, line throwing equipment,
406 Mhz EPIRBS, SARTS and service of fire fighting and breathing
apparatus.
We welcome skippers and
crew to view their raft when unpacked and to discuss with our staff any
matter regarding survival equipment.
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BREATHING APPARATUS
SERVICE |
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We have
over 30 years experience in servicing breathing apparatus. This
includes overhaul and testing of cylinders, demand valves, reducers,
cylinder valves and pressure monitoring / warning devices for
surface and under water use. Our mobile service has the latest first
breath positive pressure face mask test bench for on site
testing.
Air purity testing
using the Bauer Electronic Air Lab Mk 4 assures operators of H.P.
and L.P. breathing air compressors the air they produce meets
Australian standards. An air test certificate is issued for quality
assurance and client
records. |
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STATIC and DYNAMIC
TESTING for LIFEBOATS & DAVITS |
| IMO
regulations now stipulate that a 5 year dynamic load test and on
load release test be performed on lifeboats and the associated
davits. Survival Offshore Systems has the equipment to test up to
150 person lifeboats. We issue test certificates for ship and class
society records. It is recommended that the davit brakes, lifeboat
hooks and release mechanisms are serviced just prior to
testing. |
Filling S.O.S. load cells in a Fassmer 147 person lifeboat
on the M.V.
"Spirit of Tasmania" prior to dynamic load and on load
release
tests | |
