Shipyard Nizhny Novgorod Motor Ship JSC on August 17, 2011 launched the sixth boat of a series of dive boats of A160 project - the “Vodolaz Zyulyaev”, the shipbuilding firm said.
The A160 project was designed in 2008 by the shipyard in conjunction with Agat Design Bureau Ltd.
The boat is intended for diving engineering operations at depths to 60 meters at rough seas with wave height up to 4 meters, to participate in rescue and salvage operations, inspection of the harbor seabed, ship wrecks, underwater hulls of vessels and waterworks.
The A160project dive boats were ordered by the Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport of the Russian Federation and FSI Directorate of State Customer of Programs for Development of Maritime Transport.
The order will be funded through the federal program "Development of Transport System of Russia (2010-2015)."
JSC Nizhny Novgorod Motorship specializes primarily in construction of vessels and auxiliary fleet, port equipment and marine engineering products.