Ramform-Tethys

The third of four Ramform Titan-class vessels, the Ramform Tethys, was celebrated in a naming ceremony at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipbuilding yard in Nagasaki, Japan last week. The Ramform Tethys is the most powerful and efficient marine seismic acquisition vessel in the world, and along with the first two Ramform Titan-class vessels, Ramform Titan and Ramform Atlas, the widest ships ever at the waterline. These first two vessels were delivered to PGS in 2013 and 2014. The Ramform Tethys has been upgraded to include small modifications relating to equipment handling on the back deck and to have an increase in engine power up from the 23,040 kW of the earlier vessels. On Ramform Tethys, mutually redundant twin engine rooms provide a total power pack of 26.4 megawats to drive three 6,000 kW controlled pitch propellers. She can tow a full spread of dual-sensor recording equipment using just two of them. http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/most-powerful-seismic-ship-named