Bazmark Film II Project - Australia

During June / July of 2008 WBNA was contracted to deliver marine logistics support to this film project within Darwin Harbor. WBNA put a total of 6 workboats / work platforms and 11 crew on the project over a period of about 1 month. Again whenever possible our management and hands on teams were as flexible as possible for the client. This was important on this project as due to the production timeline for the movie there was a requirement to do long shifts, sometimes starting and finishing at unusual hours.

 The project was completed succesfully and out of all of the contractors employed on the project WBNA was one of the last to finish on the Darwin set as it was utilized to assist with the decommissioning of the site.

Barramundi Farm Harvesting and Transportation

During the course of 2006 WBNA was contracted to assist with the Barramundi harvesting and transportation from "Marine Harvest's" fish farm in Port Hurd on Bathurst Island North West of Darwin. Again the vesatility of WBNA vessels and crew was utilised by the client. Where required, or whenever possible, the WBNA crew would assist the Marine Harvest crew during every phase of the fish harvest and transportation process.

The Geelong and WBNA crew would depart Darwin with fish bins full of ice and travel the 100 odd nautical miles to Port Hurd. Using our deck crane and a harvesting net, the Port Hurd and WBNA crew would load the fish bins on the deck of the workboat with fresh Barramundi. After packing them on ice the MV Geelong and WBNA crew would then depart Port Hurd and deliver the produce to waiting trucks at the load-out wharf in Darwin.

35 ton clump weight mooring relocation with TDS

This was an interesting project for the crew of the WBNA vessel the 'MV Geelong' which is an 18 meter MultiCat style vessel based currently in Darwin NT.  All of the required "Territory Dive Services" dive / lift bag equipment was loaded onto the MV Geelongs front deck; then the vessel, equipment, and dive crew were mobilized to the DLNG Exclusion Zone to raise the old Thiess Marine moorings left over from the construction of the DLNG Load-Out Jetty.

The clump weights were raised using TDS Divers and 40 tons of lift bag. When they were pulled out of the sea floor the MV Geelong towed them in thier submerged state to their new home near East Arm Wharf. After being towed into position by the MV Geelong and WBNA crew, the TDS divers lowered them into their new position. They then became the new cyclone moorings for the Darwin Harbour Tugs.

Dry hire of Anchor Handling vessel to CMA corp in

Port Hedland

WBNA engineering crew carried out a major refit on the BM Barker in late 2005 afer this vessel finished nearly 2 years of work on the DLNG Jetty Construction Project with Thiess Marine. Immediately after, it became available we loaded it onto a caostal trading vessel and mobilised it to Port Hedland for CMA Corp (Moltoni Adams) to put to work on its BHP Marine Demolition Works Project in Port Hedland.

The BM Barker has delivered a reliable service to both CMA Corp and John Holland Group in Port Hedland since July 2006 and now continues on on the project with JHG.