Drydocks World-Dubai installs Grounding Avoidance System on BP Shipping oil tanker

Drydocks World-Dubai has installed a trial version of a Grounding Avoidance System on the 46,803-tonne oil tanker British Tenacity for BP Shipping.

Personnel from Drydocks World-Dubai worked for 12 days to modify British Tenacity’s bow and fabricate the structures required to accommodate the system’s transducers on the vessel. Drydocks World-Dubai’s advanced fabrication workshop used approximately 11 tonnes of Grade-A steel to fabricate the refurbished bow area.

The Grounding Avoidance System is a three-dimensional, forward-looking sonar system that helps identify obstacles anywhere in the water column up to a range of one kilometre.
 

(Source: Shipping Online)