A thorough inspection of the Ooigem lock
The Ooigem lock is situated in one of our most important maritime arteries. It is operational almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In order to guarantee this, our government has decided to give the lock a thorough overhaul in the near future. And for this maintenance...
A happy reunion – Duncan Lommaert
The company VYTECH (https://www.vytech.be) carried out a market survey to find a good diving company to install gas injection pipes in a reservoir. These gas pipes will be used to create a ring of fire on the water, through which athletes will jump. This is a...
Nice cooperation with French military
In France lies a military port. We were invited to carry out an In Water Survey on a military ship. It was not so easy, our company and the entire diving team were subjected to a detailed investigation. It took several hours and then it was not over yet. The diver who...
Our certification to carry out diving operations in France has arrived!
Since we are constantly invited to carry out diving operations in France, we decided to get certified. After an audit that lasted more than a week, we recently received the good news that we are authorised to carry out diving operations in France. The entire procedure...
Eunice pushed the floodgates open
The Eunice storm did have some serious consequences. Eunice was so powerful that it managed to push open the lock gates of Houtemsas. Thank God the officials of our government were alert and managed to keep the water management of the polders under control...
Two very precise cuts with the BROCO torch
Carrying out a cutting job with the BROCO torch in the Scheldt River is quite a challenge. At a quay wall in Hoboken, an old fender beam had to be removed to be able to carry out painting work. The beam was attached to the sheet piling with steel plates....
Great things sometimes come in pairs!
We are very proud to have signed, in just a few days, two contracts for diving work under offshore conditions. One will take place in Belgian territorial waters, the second off the coast of France. We are looking for freelance professional divers - under...
Our new and stronger management team
We are proud to present our expanded management team. From now on, we can count full time on the cooperation of a master in his field: Martin Van Dromme. 25 years ago Martin took his first step in the diving underwater world and started his own diving company. He ran...
Putting the Evergem lock out of action
A few days before we could start the "real" work, we had already started dredging the upper and lower head of the Evergem lock. Because the government wanted to keep the lock in service until the last minute, we had to carry out our diving work in a narrow time...
8,6 metres propeller polishing
Just before the weekend a huge ice-class gastanker full of LNG-gas arrived in the port of Zeebrugge and was very carefully brought to its berth in the outer port. As soon as the tugboots had left the port and the gas transfer was stable, we were given permission to...