VIKOMA LAUNCHES IT’S PARAVANE FOR USE DEPLOYING BOOMS

VIKOMA LAUNCHES IT’S PARAVANE FOR USE DEPLOYING BOOMS

Vikoma’s Paravane Maxi towing a neoprene boom

flexibility is a useful feature for buyers by keeping the investment cost down, with one piece of equipment being easily convertible to suit the size of boom being used, rather than buying two separate sizes of paravane.

Vikoma has launched a new paravane for deploying booms and advancing skimmers such as it’s Fasflo system. Vikoma’s paravane is a powerful and versatile tool. In a traditional open water boom deployment it replaces the tow boat, enabling a single vessel to deploy a boom system.

There are other paravanes on the market, however Vikoma’s has a unique feature as it is a modular system allowing easy conversion between it’s Midi and Maxi versions (medium and large). This

As well as saving money, this is an environmentally friendly solution keeping the carbon footprint down as less materials are used.

Vikoma offer three models; Paravane Maxi, Paravane Midi and Paravane Mini.

Paravane Maxi has a twin vane arrangement and is ideally suited to medium to large boom systems in open water. Paravane Midi has a single vane arrangement and is suited to small to medium boom systems in rivers and sheltered waters.

In a river deployment, Paravane Mini can be used alongside personnel to manually deploy a boom system without the need for a boat. This functionality minimises personnel and reduces costs making it ideally suited to training exercises as well as oil spill response.

Vikoma’s Paravane Maxi towing a neoprene boom