''Atlantic Osprey'' is an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, launched 17 April 2003. Built by

Halifax Shipyard The Halifax Shipyard Limited is a Canadian shipbuilding company located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1889, it is today a wholly owned subsidiary of Irving Shipbuilding Inc. and is that company's largest ship construction and repair facili ...

for operation by Atlantic Towing Limited, ''Atlantic Osprey'' is an

Ulstein Ulstein is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The commercial and administrative centre of Ulstein is the town of Ulsteinvik. The municipality occupies the western half of the island of Hareid ...

UT722L design intended for use in the offshore

oil field A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presence ...

s. With a 12 MW

diesel engine The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...

, the 3,453 gross tonnage tug can transit at . In December 2005, she recovered the wreckage of a crashed Canadian Coast Guard helicopter near Marystown, Newfoundland. She was the vessel used to recover wreckage and bodies following the 12 March 2009 crash of

Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 was a scheduled flight of a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A ( Registration C-GZCH) which ditched on 12 March 2009 en route to the ''SeaRose'' FPSO in the White Rose oil field and Hibernia Platform in the Hibernia oilfield o ...

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