{"id":31820,"date":"2022-11-01T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/tech-file-viking-norsafe-e-mako-655-the-all-electric-rescue-boat\/31820\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:01:47","slug":"tech-file-viking-norsafe-e-mako-655-the-all-electric-rescue-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/tech-file-viking-norsafe-e-mako-655-the-all-electric-rescue-boat\/31820\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech File: VIKING Norsafe E-Mako-655, the all-electric Rescue Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>VIKING Life-Saving Equipment and maritime electric motor systems developer Evoy launched an electrically powered 6.55m rescue boat, the VIKING Norsafe E-Mako-655. The Mako-655 is an existing rescue boat design that, up until now, has only been offered with traditional engine propulsion due to the current IMO\/SOLAS regulation which states that rescue boats of this type must have at least one internal combustion engine.<\/p>\n<p>VIKING Norsafe and Evoy are challenging what they call a &#8220;somewhat out of date convention&#8221; with their medium to long-term goal of overturning the existing rule with the assistance of DNV, who have submitted a SOLAS Novel Design application in support of the new technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStandards and regulations require a lifeboat to be started and stopped routinely to verify that they are operational,&#8221; said Erik Mostert, head of R&amp;D, VIKING Norsafe. &#8220;Evoy\u00b4s electric motors and battery systems eliminate the potential risks of wear and deterioration of internal combustion engines in association with this start\/stop process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib\" style=\"width: 913px; width: 913px;\"><span class=\"fr-img-wrap\"><span class=\"fr-inner\">Image credit: S\u00f8nnavind drone and boligfoto<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIKING Life-Saving Equipment and maritime electric motor systems developer Evoy launched an electrically powered 6.55m rescue boat, the VIKING Norsafe E-Mako-655. The Mako-655 is an existing rescue boat design that, up until now, has only been offered with traditional engine propulsion due to the current IMO\/SOLAS regulation which states that rescue boats of this type &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}