ships of pensacola

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

2011 October 8 --

Saturday

The view from our side of the fence

The View 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

2011 October 8 --

Saturday

2011 October 8 --

Saturday

2011 October 8 --

Saturday

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

2011 October 21

The Skandi Achiever

2010 December 24

Ship’s Pantry

Dining Area

Beautiful stained glass on door

Door to deck

Bedroom 2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

View from Ship

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

View of Palafox Park from Ship

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

2010 December 24

Beautiful view of the sunset!

2010 December 24

A brighter view of Palafox Park.

2010 December 24

View of Port of Pensacola from the Ship

2010 December 24

A view inside

2010 December 24

Overlooking Pensacola

2010 December 24

A sunset view of the Port of Pensacola

2010 December 24

The dark wood was beautiful – but awfully dark!

2010 December 24

Nighttime view from Palafox Pier

2010 December 24

A heron enjoys the beautiful sunset at Palafox Park

2010 December 24

2010 December 24