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DEME Group ordered the dynamically positioned fall-pipe rock dumper 'Flintstone' from Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore, in July 2008. The vessel will be commissioned in early 201 1 and be operated by Breda based Tideway BV, the offshore specialist company within DEME Group.
Flintstone has a load weight of 19,000 tons and is specially designed for creating high precision structures on the sea bed. using rock and gravel in bulk, etc. Typically, the structures are rock capping and bedding on top of or underneath an oil/gas pipeline, rock tables for crossing pipelines and gravel layers for wind turbine foundations etc.
The vessel features two large rock bunkers on the main deck. In the center of each rock bunker is a...