With only a few support vessels under 500GT constructed and available on the market, Diverse Projects, from Auckland, New Zealand have created the ATLAS yacht support vessel concept which bring together the most-effective features of support vessels in service.
Atlas Superyacht Support Vessel by Diverse Projects
ATALAS superyacht support vessel concept boasts advanced naval architecture and is ready to be built on request, designed by a team that has previous experience in converting commercial vessels into superyacht support vessels.
“We have been very fortunate to see both the benefits and shortcomings of what the incumbent industry can offer. With the knowledge that owners are wishing to push the duration of their voyages to more remote places, while still being able to cater for every possible activity, we started our design process not from a blank sheet but from knowledge of vessels currently in service,” says Diverse Projects’ John Vitali.
Atlas has been penned up upon Divers Projects’ experience of what owners most commonly ask to be added, or removed, from their support vessels. With a hull designed for ultimate steadiness, ATLAS features multiple loading stabilities and is created to be under 500 GT.
“After a number of iterations with our chosen design office, which has one of the most efficient hull form databases, and thousands of hours of design work, we firmed on the platform which is now Atlas,” continues Diverse Projects’ Lars Bjorklund.
The Atlas Yacht Support vessel package offers an efficient, stable, DP1, high load carrier with package options to add on modules like heli-decks, large A-frame, tender ramp, submarine garage, media/science containers and other extras often required for support vessels, and the team is ready to start work on an Atlas project immediately. Having been designed specifically for purpose, Atlas will be a very efficient high load carrier of both liquid and deck cargo platforms.
The Diverse Projects team were the project managers who were tasked with the conversion of Damen Sea Axe Umbra into a comprehensive support vessel for 56-metre research yacht Alucia – a vessel which had also been refitted by Diverse Projects. The team is currently converting another Damen Sea Axe; Advantage into a support vessel, and the project, six months in the making, was one Diverse Projects was very pleased to bring to New Zealand shores.
With extensive refit project experience, as well as new construction, the Diverse Projects team has an awareness of the time and cost involved in adding or subtracting elements from an existing vessel. Reducing that time and cost is the driving principle behind Atlas.
The Atlas package is fully customisable according to owner requirements with additional elements that can be added to ensure it fully fits the owner and mothership’s needs.
“It’s a transformer,” Lars Bjorklund finishes. “A purpose-built base boat, stripped down to basics allowing the owner to add the elements needed, to create the most cost-effective, high-yielding support vessel available.”
