by Anaïs Van Loo | Apr 12, 2021 | Diving services
In order to perform maintenance on a wastewater basin, Aquafin asked for our help. The employees of the water purification station looked a bit surprised when they realised that it would be Verena who would solve the problem. Stijn and Marie put everything in place...
by Anaïs Van Loo | Apr 12, 2021 | Diving services
Our two professional women divers were excited when they heard that Submar had won the contract to lay 130 metres of welding seam on a sheet pile wall in the Port of Zeebrugge. They couldn’t get away from the yard! Marie, with her 4 years of experience as a...
by Anaïs Van Loo | Mar 26, 2021 | Diving services
Due to bad weather, a ship collided with a fender in the outer harbour of Zeebrugge. The fender was damaged severely, luckely the quay wasn’t touched. The rubber blocks, used as shock absorbers, were torn loose, but the safety chains held. The fender was...
by Anaïs Van Loo | Mar 10, 2021 | Diving services
During dredging, the crew noticed that dredged material was lost from the split hopper barge. SUBMAR was asked to carry out an underwater investigation of the closing mechanism in the barge. About halfway into the hopper, we discovered damage of the closing mechanism...
by Anaïs Van Loo | Mar 7, 2021 | Diving services
For several years already, the sheet pile walls of the tunnels of the Schipdonk Canal and the Leopold Canal in Zeebrugge have been treated against corrosion. Both canals are of great importance for the water management from Flanders to France. Both tunnels run...
by Anaïs Van Loo | Mar 3, 2021 | Diving services
Between the beautiful historic station building and the neo-gothic St.Peter and Paul church in Ostend lies the Mercator Lock. Tis lock is the only access to the mercator dock and guards the water level over there. The lock keeper had noticed that the water level in...
