Security consultant company, Gray Page, announced that a system designed to prevent unlawful over-the-side access to ships, oil rigs and other marine platforms and installations called ‘DFENCE’ is now available to the global maritime market.
James Wilkes, Managing Director, Gray Page, said: “We have been hardening ships against security threats such as piracy for years. Over that time we have looked at numerous ways of defending their perimeter rails, using razor wire and other improvised measures. Latterly, we have sea-trialled ‘security barriers’ produced by other companies. The problem has been that although each solution had some or all of the security properties we were seeking, none was as practical in a sea-going environment as they needed to be.
So, in the absence of a product on the market that did everything that we wanted it to do, we decided to develop our own.”
James added: “Piracy – and violence against seafarers in particular – is still a significant problem in parts of the world, such as the Gulf of Guinea and the Sulu Sea. While the hijack of the tanker Aris 13 off northern Somalia on Monday highlights that the threat of Somalia-based piracy has not gone away, despite a lot of effort going into suppressing it”.
Furthermore, the system incorporates three outboard modules, each with a different profile, which makes climbing over it from below exceptionally difficult. Also, the company informs that its system has been devised specifically to repel, deflect and destabilise ladders, poles and other climbing apparatus.
Source: Gray Page
