Ramform-Atlas

A cayuco was located by the 'Ramform Atlas' on the afternoon of June 5, 2024, en route from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to Pecem, about 207 kilometers southwest of La Gomera. The boat had more than a hundred people on board, about whom there were no further details for now. The SAR vessel 'Guardamar Urania' lifeboat was sent by Salvamento Marítimo encountered two more boats with a large number of migrants on board and was providing aid to about 400 people. This figure was still provisional, because the operation was ongoing.

On 10 March 2015 the RAMFORM ATLAS, the largest seismic vessel in the world, owned by Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) arrived in the port of IJmuiden. The RAMFORM ATLAS is the second vessel in the ultra-high capacity Titan Class. With a length of 104 meters and 70 meters in the beam at the stern it is truly the right tool for the job. When acquiring seismic data the unusual hull shape comes into its own. PGS has utilized the enormous volume offered by the delta-shaped design to install massive amounts of seismic equipment with no compromise to working space or safety. The vessel further allows for extreme fuel capacity, offering survey endurance of 150 days without refueling – enough to sail her twice around the planet. The wide back deck also greatly increases stability and enables safe, hands-off deployment and recovery of multiple streamers simultaneously, in harsher conditions than ever before.The RAMFORM ATLAS left the port of IJmuiden on Wednesday evening to start a project on the Northsea.

The second vessel in the Ramform Titan class, the Ramform Atlas was celebrated in a naming ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan today. To Petroleum Geo-Services ASA ("PGS"), safety, efficiency and productivity are the most important features of the new, 24-streamer vessel. The ceremony took place at the MHI yard in Nagasaki. The vessel will typically tow a network of several hundred thousand recording sensors over an area greater than 12 km2, equivalent to 3.5 times Central Park, the company said in its press release. The Ramform Titan-class is the most powerful and efficient marine seismic acquisition vessel ever and the widest ship in the world at the waterline. Safety and productivity have been the main focus points for her design. Ramform Atlas is the second of four such vessels to be built in Japan. Her sister ship, the Ramform Titan, has been operating very successfully since its delivery in April 2013.