Oceanwide Safety at Sea features in the latest edition (1-2012) of Shipping & Marine as of page 64:

With his own career in lifeboats and launching systems having begun in the 1980s, Rob Bunders, co-owner and founder of Oceanwide Safety at Sea, utilised this experience to found a new venture in 2002. Marketed as a service company dedicated to life saving equipment in the Rotterdam area, a year later Oceanwide acquired the rights to Rob’s former company Mulder & Rijke and a new line in totally enclosed lifeboat (TELB) production.

“Our purpose was to try and build up small production units for niche markets,” explains Rob. “One such market that developed from the second half of 2005 onwards is the diving industry. Whilst at the end of the last century this sector was effectively dead, companies such as Shell and Statoil found that diving, and particularly saturation diving, was necessary to their operations. The North Sea is far further in saturation diving then other parts of the world such as the US, South America, and the Far East, and as such developed a whole new set of rules with DNV to be able to comply with the tightening rules in the Norwegian sector. On that basis we in turn developed a complete range of safety equipment for the diving sector, and in particular for the safe evacuation of saturation divers, based on those new requirements.”

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