River Shipping Industry Services
Since opening for business in 1988, Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc. has been providing commercial diving services to the inland river shipping industry. In fact, many of MCDI's repeat customers are inland river shippers. Mainstream has worked for all of the major inland shippers on the Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee Rivers. No river shipping company or waterway is too small.
If you have any questions regarding our services, capabilities, or experience, please do not hesitate to call us.
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Mainstream's services are cost efficient because we have an extensive inventory of equipment in-house and can respond to any situation at a moment's notice.
Mainstream's Salvage
Equipment Includes:
- Lift Bags with the Capability to Lift Over 40 Tons
- Dewatering Pumps up to 8 Inch
- Custom Fabricated Salvage Hatches
- Patching Material of All Sizes
NO JOB IS TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL.
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MCDI Provides a Variety of Services to the Inland River Shipping Industry Including:
- 24-Hour Emergency Service
- Underwater Inspections, Repair and Salvage
- Wheel Obstruction Removal
- Underwater Cutting and Welding
- Kort Nozzle Repair
- Emergency Rudder Repairs
- Stuffing Box Plugging for Seal Change
- Sea Chest Cleaning and Repair
- Keel Cooler Repairs
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- Hundreds and hundreds of successfully completed wheel jobs
- Extensive experience with barge and vessel salvage
- Barge patching
- Hundreds of inspections of all underwater components of large commercial vessels including towboats, barges, passenger vessels and casino boats
- Non-Destructive testing on all types of waterborne structures, including vessels
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SONAR LOCATION EQUIPMENT
In addition to our salvage capabilities, Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc. also has sidescan and sector scan sonar survey equipment, integrated with differential GPS as well as towable underwater metal detectors to aid with accurately determining the exact location, including latitude and longitude, of the sunken vessels or lost equipment.
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MCDI CAN PERFORM BARGE REPAIRS
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SONAR INSPECTION OF RIVER TERMINALS
MCDI has performed many sonar inspection projects at marine river terminals on several rivers. These inspections reveal sunken objects that may pose a hazard to navigation.
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