Mermaid Maritime Public Company, the offshore marine services and support company based in Thailand, says wholly-owned subsidiary Mermaid Offshore Services and KD Marine of Aberdeen have have agreed to cooperate to provide saturation, air diving, daughter craft and remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) services from the dive support vessel (DSV) Mermaid Endurer in Europe.

Established in 1989, KD Marine has been providing diving services in the North Sea to a wide range of oil and gas companies and contractors.

The Mermaid Endurer is a 95m-long dynamically-positioned DSV which is being built in the Bergen Group BMV AS shipyard in Bergen, Norway. The vessel features a 300m dive system, integrated air dive and ROV systems, 100‐tonne crane and 1,000-sqm work deck space.

The Mermaid Endurer is scheduled to be delivered to MOS in the first half of this 2010 for KD Marine to install the daughter craft and launching system.