On October 12, CBS premiered a new episode of their hit TV show Scorpion which featured a SEA FORCE® 1100 RIB built by Willard Marine for the U.S. Navy. The vessel can be seen at the 4:46 marker of the episode titled Robots as the Scorpion team is taken to a special-ops nuclear submarine.
To watch the full episode, visit the CBS website here: http://www.cbs.com/shows/scorpion/video/A8F41702-C1A1-0BC7-8F43-48493CBBCD4E/scorpion-robots/
Today, Willard Marine shipped another 11-meter open center console rigid inflatable boat (RIB) to Virginia, fulfilling our contract with the U.S. Navy to supply two variants of 11-meter RIB boats for a standard ship's boat operations. Willard Marine has been supplying the Navy and their Foreign Military Sales division with these types of 11-meter RIB boats for 15 years, and additional 11-meter vessels have been procured by the U.S. Coast Guard.
150104-N-DC018-207 JAVA SEA (Jan. 4, 2015) Sailors assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 and littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) make preparations to launch a Tow Fish side scan sonar system from the ship's 11-m rigid hull inflatable boat. Fort Worth is currently on station in the Java Sea supporting Indonesian-led efforts to locate missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist MC2 Antonio P. Turretto Ramos/Released)
On December 5, U.S. Navy Sailors tended to the Orion Crew Module as it was towed by a Willard Marine 11m Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RIB) into the well deck of the USS Anchorage (LPD 23). The ship’s crew along with NASA and Lockheed Martin teams retrieved the spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean at the end of the highly successful Orion flight test that saw the Orion fly about 3,600 miles above Earth in a 4.5-hour evaluation of critical systems and mechanisms including jettison events and the ability of the heat shield to stand up to temperatures of 4,000 degrees F.
One-year-old girl rescued at sea by the U.S. Navy (some rescuers pictured above in Willard Marine RIB) after showing salmonella-like symptoms before her family's sailboat broke down. Read full story in gCaptain here.
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