Helping sister ships with machine parts
13 February 2023
Mechanics from FFS move out when a ship that is at a port somewhere in the world has an urgent need for new parts.
Join us down in the engine room where the mechanic retrieves parts to be used on another boat.
Text and photo: Sveinung W. Jensen, Tellus Kommunikasjon
- "We dismantle the coupling plates between the engine and gearbox and carry them up on deck," says an FFS mechanic.
The seismic vessel is laid up in Lundevågen in Farsund. We are taken down into the enormous engine room on board, where the mechanic is screwing things up. Today he is accompanied by Lukas Johannessen, who is on placement from Eilert Sundt upper secondary school.
- There are three such discs to be unscrewed. It's heavy stuff. It takes four of us to carry them up the stairs," says the mechanic.
FFS has management agreements on several seismic boats that are in storage in Farsund and Lyngdal.
- Sometimes it happens that boats that are out on a mission need parts. Then it is often faster to collect the parts from sister ships that are in stock than to order new ones, says workshop manager at FFS, Ronny Christoffersen.
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