Recently, Wuchang Shipbuilding subsidiary company and China Three Gorges Corporation signed the construction contract for the workboat of Three Gorges Dam.
The workboat is of round bilge line type, inclined bow, square transom, single hull type, with steel welded structure and twin engines and twin fixed pitch propellers for propulsion. It is 57.1 meters in length, 9.8 meters in breadth, 3.5 meters in depth and 24 km/h in maximum speed.
The workboat operates in the inland Yangtze River waters and the Three Gorges Reservoir area, mainly carrying out reservoir inspections, reservoir bank slope inspections, hydrological sediment element monitoring, water environment sampling and laboratory testing and analysis work. It is equipped with on-board measuring equipment, laboratory equipment and other supporting equipment, which can accurately obtain basic information on hydrology, chemistry, biology, geology and meteorology, and cooperate with land laboratories for data transmission and integration.
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