Phoenix International Holdings

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) is an employee owned marine services company that performs complex manned and unmanned underwater operations worldwide. Phoenix was incorporated in 1996 as Phoenix Marine, Inc. and started doing business in 1997. It changed its name in January 2000 to Phoenix International, Inc., and then to Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. in November 2007 when it became an employee owned company.

The company’s core business segments include waterborne ship repairs; underwater inspection, maintenance and repair; deep ocean search and recovery; submarine rescue; and marine engineering. They provide expertise in underwater welding (wet and dry chamber); non-destructive testing; conventional and one-atmosphere manned diving; and side scan sonar, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operations. The marine engineering services that Phoenix provides include unmanned underwater vehicles, underwater robotics, cofferdams & weight handling fixtures, and diving systems. Its customers include U.S. and foreign navies and government agencies; the oil and gas, subsea mining and entertainment industries; and the archaeological community.

Contracts

Phoenix currently holds three US Navy contracts that require emergency response. These three contracts are:

  • Undersea Operations - worldwide rapid response undersea search and salvage operations and related engineering services in support the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV).[1]
  • Diving and Diving Related Services - air, mixed gas and saturation diving and related engineering services in support of the SUPSALV mission areas of diving, salvage and underwater ship repair.[2]
  • Submarine Rescue - management, engineering, technical and logistical support services required to operate and maintain the U.S. Navy’s Domestic and International Submarine Rescue Program assets in rescue ready status 24 hours a day, seven days a week.[3]

Notable projects

Notable projects in which Phoenix has participated include:

Offices

Phoenix has eight offices in seven geographic locations:

References

  1. ↑ "U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts, Release No: CR-180-14, September 18, 2014".
  2. ↑ "U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts, Release No: CR-189-16, September 30, 2016".
  3. ↑ "U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts, Release No: CR-166-14, August 29, 2014".
  4. ↑ "Maryland Salvage Firm Tapped for Malaysia Flight 370 Search". Wall Street Journal. 25 March 2014.
  5. 1 2 Troadec, Jean-Paul. "BEA Press conference, Recife harbour (Brazil), 25 March 2010, English transcript of Mr Troadec's speech". Archived from the original on 23 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Black box retrieved from crashed Indonesian plane". Reuters. Aug 28, 2007.
  7. ↑ FINAL REPORT ACCIDENT INVOLVING ATR 72 AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION MARKS TS-LBB (PDF), Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo (ANSV), p. 76, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-14
  8. ↑ Pol, Daniel; John Tomasi (December 2010). "xBot III: Exploring Treacherous Spaces". Sea Technology Magazine. 51 (12): 10–13.
  9. ↑ Baumgartner, Henry (August 1999). "The Sub That Vanished". Mechanical Engineering Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-01-28.
  10. ↑ Riendeau, Roger (November 2003). "Space Shuttle Columbia Water Recovery Operations" (PDF). FACEPLATE.
  11. ↑ Cavey, Rick (November 2002). "USS MONITOR Turret Recovery" (PDF). FACEPLATE.
  12. ↑ Lynch, Don; Ken Marschall; introduction by James Cameron (2003). Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-81223-1.
  13. ↑ Burgess, Richard (May 2011). "Mobile Saturation Site". Seapower. 54 (5): 26–28.
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