VIKING brings turbine safety step change with all-in-one evacuation kit | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
VIKING brings turbine safety step change with all-in-one evacuation kit Quickly growing turbine numbers, installed in deeper waters offshore and farther out to sea are needed to serve accelerating demand for wind energy but safety issues for such structures go beyond the feats of civil engineering making them possible. Supervised remotely, all of these offshore assets nonetheless need periodic physical inspection and maintenance, with the engineers landing on remote platforms either from helicopters or via gangways connecting to vessels in motion. Furthermore, once landed, much of the work ta...