2011 October 8 -Saturday The Versabar 10,000 docked at the Port of Pensacola on Friday, October 7, 2011. It is a catamaran-style craft consisting of a pair of barges linked by a 240-foot-tall pair of steel gantries. The vessel is used to salvage damaged oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. “We’ve never had one like this before,” Port Director Clyde Mathis said early Friday afternoon. Mathis said the vessel is docking here for routine labor. Choppy seas forced the vessel into Pensacola Bay. The vessel is not self-propelled and must be towed wherever it goes. Each of its gantries weighs about 3,400 tons. The vessel’s mission is to clean up hurricane-damaged platforms under a government mandate. The Versabar 10,000 can lift 7,500 tons of scrap metal from as far as 400 feet deep.
2011 October 8 -Saturday
2011 October 8 -Saturday We had heard that the Versabar 10,000 was docked at the Port of Pensacola; so we went to see it while we were in the area after Saturday morning prayer meeting. We were surprised to find that it could only be seen from a distance. Judging from the amount of people who drove up to the parking lot and took photos of it with us, a lot of people wanted a picture!
2011 October 8 -Saturday
The view from our side of the fence
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from Our Side of the Fence
2011 October 8 -Saturday
Cool artwork on the Port’s water tower!
2011 October 8 -Saturday
View of the ship from William Bartram Memorial Park
2011 October 8 -Saturday
Another view of the Versabar 10,000
2011 October 8 -Saturday
Views from Palafox Pier
Tugboat
2011 October 8 -Saturday
2011 October 8 -Saturday
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The Skandi Achiever The Skandi Achiever, a dive-support boat, stopped at the Port of Pensacola for an equipment and crew change. The boat’s saturation dive system allows 18 divers to trade off staying in four, three-man decompression chambers. The divers can descend and perform work on equipment like offshore rigs then recover from deep-water diving. The 350-foot vessel arrived at the port at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday after a trip from Europe. The vessel, owned by French oil and gas infrastructure giant Technip, will be at the port for four to five days before going on its next three- to four-week job in the Gulf of Mexico. It will return to Pensacola to pick up equipment after the job.
Birds at Palafox Pier admire the view with us!
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
2011 October 21
The Skandi Achiever
This boat is the tiny speck at the right in the above photo
Tugboat
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Bedroom
Ship’s Pantry
Door to deck
Beautiful stained glass on door
Dining Area
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View from Ship
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View of Palafox Park from Ship
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Beautiful view of the sunset!
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A brighter view of Palafox Park.
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View of Port of Pensacola from the Ship
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A view inside
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Overlooking Pensacola
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A sunset view of the Port of Pensacola
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The dark wood was beautiful – but awfully dark!
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Nighttime view from Palafox Pier
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A heron enjoys the beautiful sunset at Palafox Park
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