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Belgian marine services company DEME reports that the under construction offshore installation vessel Orion 1<\/em> was undergoing load testing at Liebherr shipyard in Rostock, Germany when the crane collapsed on Saturday, May 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A few people suffered minor injuries, the company said. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Footage of the incident leaked online: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Orion 1<\/em> is under construction and currently owned by COSCO (QIDONG) Offshore. \u00a0It was due for delivery to DEME later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 216.5-meter Orion 1<\/em> has been described as a \u201cgame changing\u201d DP3 offshore installation vessel with a massive 5,000-tonne lifting crane featuring 30 meters of outreach and a lifting height of 180 meters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The vessel arrived at the Liebherr construction yard last November for installation of the crane \u2013 the final phase in the construction process.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe crane has suffered significant damage, while damage to the crane and the vessel will be investigated in the upcoming days and weeks,\u201d DEME said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Orion 1<\/em> was planned to install 103 jackets at the Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland immediately upon delivery.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Commissioned by the Scottish Government in 2014, the 950MW capacity Moray East project is being developed by EDP Renewables and ENGIE. Since May 2019, DEME\u2019s jack-up vessel Apollo<\/em> has been working to install piles as part of an initial two-year campaign to construct the foundation systems for the MHI Vestas V164-9.5MW turbines and the three offshore substations. The Orion<\/em> was then scheduled the work of installing the 103 \u2018jackets\u2019 for the foundation.<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Belgian marine services company DEME reports that the under construction offshore installation vessel Orion 1 was undergoing load testing at Liebherr shipyard in Rostock, Germany when the crane collapsed on Saturday, May 2.\u00a0 A few people suffered minor injuries, the company said. Footage of the incident leaked online: The Orion 1 is under construction and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5814,3833,1625,5812,5813,211,1988,1131,4653,549,2904],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-11thhour","tag-collapse","tag-crane","tag-demes","tag-gamechanging","tag-incident","tag-installation","tag-offshore","tag-suffers","tag-vessel","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}