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VOS Pace is a new platform supply vessel (PSV) built for the Dutch company, Vroon Offshore Services. The vessel, built at the Cosco Guangdong Shipyard in China, was launched in June 2014 and delivered to her owners in February 2015.
It is the first of the six PX121-type PSVs designed by Ulstein for Vroon Offshore and is outfitted to support drilling activities with longer and deeper boreholes and other offshore activities in European waters.
Storage capacities of the PX121 vessel
The PX121 is equipped with tanks for carrying oil, water and drilling fluids along with two stainless steel tanks for carrying flammable liquids or corrosive chemicals. Onboard tanks can store up to 1,035m3 of fresh water, 1,674m3 of drill water, 1,464m3 of fuel, 1,294m3 of liquid mud or brine and 255m3 of dry bulk. The vessel also features 391.7m3 heeling tanks, and can carry a 257m3 of base oil and 150m3 of methanol.
Accommodation and deck machinery aboard the platform service vessel
VOS Pace is outfitted to provide accommodation to 26 people in 14 single crew cabins and six double cabins dedicated for 12 passengers.
The vessel features two 10t tugger winches with a pulling speed of 35m/min, two capstans with a safe working load (SWL) of 10t each, and a deck crane with a SWL of 3t at a maximum outreach of 18m.
Communication and navigation equipment
Communication systems fitted to the PSV include JRC JSS-2150 MF/HF radio, JRC JHS-770S Very High Frequency Radio (VHF), three Entel HT8982 portable VHF radio for general and distress communications, McMurdo Model E5 Satellite emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB), JRC NCR-333 navigational telex (NAVTEX) receiver, JRC JUE-251 Fleet Broad Band, and JRC JAX-9B Weather Facsimile.
Other communication equipments fitted on the vessel include Inmarsat-C packet data service operated by Inmarsat for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) and long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) of ships. The ship also incorporates two McMurdo S4 search and rescue transponders (SART) and JHS-183 Automatic Identification System (AIS).
Navigation equipment includes S-band JMCJMA -9132-SA ARPA radar and X-band JRC JMA -9122-9XA ARPA radar. Also fitted are two Mc Murdo S4 Radar Transponder Units, JRC JAN-901B-FOR Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), JRC JFE-680 Echo sounder and YOKOGAWA PT500A-P-Analog auto pilot.
The PSV is further equipped with YOKOGAWA CMZ900d +1 x 900S gyro compass, YOKOGAWA SR-165 magnetic compass, Integrated Joystick Control, JRC Navi-Sailor 4000 electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) with multi-functional (MFD) system, and a JRC JCY-1800 Voyage Data Recorder (VDR).
Life saving and fire-fighting systems
The PSV is fitted with two 20-man life rafts on each side and a man overboard boat (MOB) to carry six people.
"The PSV is fitted with two 20-man life rafts on each side and a man overboard boat (MOB) to carry six people."
External fire-fighting systems of the ABS FiFi Class vessel make it capable of dispersing 3,820m3 of water an hour. Manual fire-fighting equipment include two fire monitors. The high-capacity water jets are capable of releasing 1,200m3 of water every hour to a distance of more than 120m.
Engine and propulsion
VOs Pace PSV is powered by a diesel electric propulsion system comprising of two 1,630kW diesel engines and a pair of two diesel engines generating 990kW of power each.
The propulsion system includes two 1,600kW azimuthing twin propellers and two bow thrusters, each generating 880kW of power. The ship is also fitted with a 130ekW emergency generator set for shipboard electricity. The propulsion system ensures a maximum speed of 15kt.
The Traveling Salesman
This workhorse moves through the lonely desert of apocalypse to connect the widespread small towns where the last people live.
They took the base of a haul truck and built up the various rooms and platforms to create enough space to hold goods and passengers.
Nowadays it´s the center of trade and conference in a large area. Beside storage rooms also a workshop is included. In the bar the people can meet and exchange news.
The building process:
At first I wanted to model only a haul truck. But when I came to the point where I had to create the dump body I became tired of it. I don´t remember the next steps but I love convoluted buildings so the final model resulted :D
138/365: Colwick Country Park, Nottingham, July 2010
Messed about with the conversion of this one - don't know if I went too far... but kinda liked it anyway! :o)
Flat car built when I was thinking what could I build with bricks I already have and without making any order...
I've spent a fair share of time at the Embarcadero this week as I've had a couple of group photographs to take AND I've had to deliver rush prints (a big thanks to @photoworkssf!). Today, after delivering the file for printing, I had to head over to the Financial District to do a headshot for a long-time client. I took very few other photos along the way.
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Urban fragment taken at Coventry railway station in England. Mega Mind or Mind The Gap, either way it caught my eye prior to a long and tedious train journey back to Scotland.
It's still very quiet at 09.15 on a Sunday morning on platform 6 at Crewe even in June, as Transport for Wales CAF built 2 car class 197/0 dmu 197050 stands next to me ticking over.
15th June 2025
View from The Terrace Cafe.
Tinside Pool and some of the many bathing platforms or sun terraces built around the steep cliffside of Plymouth Hoe. Built mainly by the Victorians these walkways and recreation areas are now in sad decline due to the shortsightedness of the local authorities.
On the platform these two workers are fixing a broken vending machine with a police officer to the left.
Behind the glass wall is the waiting room and concourse. There is a ramp behind two turnstiles allowing access. This glass also slides out of the building so the interior can be accessed
Oil Platform in Cape Town harbour.
Maintenance of PetroSA’s Orca production platform, which has been at sea for the last ten years. The Orca is in Cape Town for three months undergoing a major refit, which includes pipe and steel renewals as well as general painting and cleaning maintenance work.
Storm clouds brewing in the background
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Hornchurch, Essex*. Here are the details of the project
The Platform Garden in Hornchurch, Essex RM11 1JD
The existing space is overused and tired, sloping and un-level, posing a danger to the client’s two small children and making the space unattractive and problematic.
The re-design divides the space into several distinct areas, utilising a series of decking walkways and platforms to create a multi-use, family oriented space. The terrace outside the back door will be decked with attractive and durable Yellow Balau hardwood decking, which will extended beyond the existing terrace to allow ample seating and dining space. Running across the width of the garden directly in front of this decked terrace will be a gabion wall, filled with plum slate paddlestones and topped with a lavender hedge to increase its height and prevent children from climbing over the top.
A set of steps to the right of the decked terrace will lead down to a 1 metre wide decked walkway runing down the right-hand side of the space. Halfway down this walkway, a Flanked either side by a trellis to for safety in time climbers will grow along here to make it a green screened walkway, at the point where the steps lead down to the lawn the wire trellis becomes a caged box.
From this gabion wall a water blade will be cited which will appear out of the gabion and extend out across the garden by 100cm and fall the 125cm to the lawn below. It will be self circulating and collect in an gabion trough filled with cobbles so there is no body of water at any point that could pose a potential danger, The children will however be able to interact with the water by being able to walk behind the waterfall and play with the falling water.
The user then has the option to turn left and follow the fight of steps down to the artificial lawn below which has been encased in a railway sleeper to allow it to become level, or they can continue along the decked walkway down some steps to the tree two thirds of the way down the left hand side of the space. The decking opens out at this point and you can pass either side of the tree and continue on your journey or you can pass round to the right of the tree where a small flight of steps leads you to a platform above you at a height or 1.7m above ground level which partially covers the decked area 2m below and partially covers the ground. Upon this decked platform a Wendy house will be cited to create a tree top house for children and adults. This area will be surrounded with a wooden balustrade
Should you continue of the lower decked level you pass under the decked area above and climb another couple of steps so you are then 1.5m above ground level and continue onto the bottom left hand corner of the garden where a 3 x 4 decked area awaits you, again enclose by a wire cage to allow a real dynamic architectural feel to the space.
Running under the last decked walkway is a tunnel 1.5m in height and reach via a small set of steps from the lawn. This tunnel allows you to pass along it and arrive in an area towards the bottom of the garden where a small children’s play area awaits. This will have a swing cited under the tree top platform along with a rope climbing net and a slide. A ladder will allow the child back up to the area above.
Storage will be provided under the main area of decking by the house and doors will be cited by the lawn. A smaller storage area will be available in the children’s area to store things out of site, again under the large area of deck.
Planting in the space will be primarily around the boundary and around the lawn. Coupling big leafy architectural evergreens with herbaceous perennials in a contemporary style. The use of grasses and prairie style plants will add to movement and texture in the space and introduce some showy flowers. Large bamboos to mask a reveal certain areas will afford some intrigue in the space and a clever use of climbers will add vertical interest throughout the space. Artifice lawn will help keep maintenance to a minimum and keep the garden looking good all year round.
Lighting in the garden will be dynamic. The gabion wall with have flat plight placed into the vertical side to illuminate the decking below, whilst stylish bollards will light each corner of the main terrace. The decked walkway will have micro led light running down either side of the walkway and step risers. A spotlight placed in the tree will illuminate the treetop platform. Rope lighting will be cited along the underside of the decking platform to give it the feeling of floating and all the beds will have LV spots light running through them to give the planting a soft glow. The water feature will be lit from the underneath to create drama when sitting on the terrace at the end of the garden. The caged areas will have a net light over the top to add a magical sparkle to the space created.
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People love taking the short route from one platform to the next by crossing the rail lines. It is considered to be human nature to take shortcuts, and I am only human. =P
Kamalapur Railway Station, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Platforms on the "Gullfaks A" drilling field. Taken from a sailboat during the Shetland Race 2011 regatta.
Platform H North is attached to a crane for installation inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Platform H will allow technicians and engineers to reach the booster for mating of the forward/center segment to the center/center segment, as well as cable routing and booster closeouts. It is the third of 10 levels of work platforms that will surround and provide access to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission 1. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to VAB High Bay 3, including installation of the new work platforms, to prepare for NASA’s journey to Mars.
Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
A technician helps guide Platform H North into position inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Platform H will allow technicians and engineers to reach the booster for mating of the forward/center segment to the center/center segment, as well as cable routing and booster closeouts. It is the third of 10 levels of work platforms that will surround and provide access to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission 1. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to VAB High Bay 3, including installation of the new work platforms, to prepare for NASA’s journey to Mars.
Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
The train has stopped outside East Croydon station, I wonder what this short platform is for? There is another, slightly longer, a little further on.
A carousel (from French carrousel, from Italian carosello), or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.
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