Navy takes delivery of additional offshore survey vessel

The Nigerian Navy has taken delivery of an Offshore Survey Vessel, OSV 115, designed and built by a French shipbuilding company, OCEA SA.

It is a 35m-long vessel built for scientific hydro-graphic and oceanographic missions and equipped with progressive technology, including medium or shallow water multi-beam echo sounders and other essential survey equipment.

The vessel delivered at Apapa, Lagos, was primed to conduct in-depth surveys in shallow and medium waters.