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TIDEWATER INC |
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Tidewater are the largest supply ship operators in the world. The company
was founded by Alden J. "Doc" LaBorde, then President of ODECO, the
Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company. Doc LaBorde had recently invented the submersible
drilling barge which took to the water a year previously, and was developed to enable
ODECO to drill in deeper water than had previously been possible. Their
first ship the Ebb Tide, was built in Louisiana in 1955.
Tidewater has been through some ups and downs
and elsewhere in the world would have been bankrupted at least once,
although it was saved in the United States by Chapter 11. Only at the turn
of the century did it wake up to the need for larger vessels to work in
deeper water under more adverse conditions than are generally found in the
shallows off the Mississippi delta, at which time it took swift action,
purchasing numbers of European supply vessels and starting a building
programme which continues to this day (December 2004).
This page can only sample to fleet, but if
anyone in Tidewater would like to see their ship displayed just send us the
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