Back in action: Mighty Servant 3 comes back from the yard after repairs.
Mighty Servant 3 back after sinking
Bermuda-based Dockwise has the semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 3 back in its fleet after the vessel sunk off Angola in December 2006.
The vessel was completely renovated by the Grand Bahama Shipyard after being towed to the Bahamas from Cape Town, South Africa in January last year.
The yard rebuilt the vessel from the hull up, Dockwise said in a release.
The two Wärtsilä engines were taken out, fully dismantled and shipped in parts to the Wärtsilä Netherland workshop in Zwolle for repair.
The accommodations block was extended and the ship can now house up to 50 people, the company said in a release.
"This is a reinstatement project in a magnitude that has never been performed before - no one has ever taken a vessel submerged in 50 metres of seawater for five months and brought her back to service,” Dockwise executive Eugène van Dodeweerd said in a release.
Dockwise originally had planned to have Mighty Servant 3 back by the end of last year.
Mighty Servant 3 went down after offloading the drilling platform Aleutian Key in waters close to the Angolan port of Luanda.