Description
SHIPYARD DIVING SUPPORT VESSEL MODEL MV DEEPWATER I
CIRCA 1983
in traditional day-glow red livery with helicopter pad, crane winches, lifeboats etc. made by MODECON FABRIEK C DUBBELAN BV 21983 EC-RIDDERKERK. HOLLAND, on its original plinth with fitted Perspex cover
16in. (40cm) wide, 22in. (55cm) high, 48in. (121cm) long
Note:
In 1986 the vessel M.V. Deepwater I was a state of the art high tech support ship owned by the Wharton Williams company. With its crew of divers they recovered a further 29 bars of Russian gold from HMS Edinburgh sunk off Murmansk in 1942 by German U boats. The first recovery of gold was in 1981 when the salvage team of 12 divers recovered 431 bars of gold from a total of 465 (with an estimated value of £56 million) at a depth of 840ft. the Deepwater I is still in service, now called the Rockwater I. It was built as one of the first purpose built dive ships with a central moon pool for the saturation dive system.