Ocean Technical Services (OTS), specializes in structural surveys of yachts and commercial vessels and historic vessels. Museum start-ups, preparation of applications with regards to the MARAD/NAVSEA Ship Donation Program and ongoing project management within a yachtyard/shipyard environment.
OTS provides additional services such as Project Management, supervision of offshore tows (Trip-In-Tow Surveys & Tow Plans), audio gauging/ultrasonic testing of shell plating, safety surveys, EPA Visitation Agreements and builder’s risk surveys of the graving drydocks. Mr. Lombardi is a licensed U.S. Coast Guard Master of 1,600 tons and First Class Pilot of Unlimited Tonnage. A naval architect, marine surveyor and a former NAVSEA/COAST GUARD SUPSHIP are on my staff as subcontractors and are available for additional task requirements.
OTS has been engaged by Patriots Point Development Corp. to conduct a structural survey of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (spring 2014), prioritizing repairs and assigning budgetary figures for the repairs.
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OTS recently completed an assessment of S.S. UNITED STATES on the preparation of a Shipyard Repair Specification and repair estimates for the drydocking and renovation of that historic ocean liner. Mr. Lombardi also prepared an estimate of build-out space for the forward boiler room in anticipation of the installation of a co-generation power gas turbine for CON-EDISON and the confirmation of the build-out space for interior renovations.
OTS conducted a hull structural survey and Tow Plan for the U.S.C.G.C, MOHAWK in Key West prior to her successful tow to Ft. Myers Beach, Florida to prepare her for ocean reefing.
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OTS conducted a hull structural survey of the battleship U.S.S. TEXAS (BB-35) at the San Jacinto State Park, La Porte, Texas on behalf of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD, January 2011.
OTS completed, in April 2012, interior tank inspections and prepared a cost analysis and designed the Shipyard Repair Specifications 1st phase. These repairs were completed in November of 2014.
OTS served as QA/QC Project Inspector.
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Repairs to the starboard bow were successfully completed in November 2011. The costs savings realized by this surveyor were in excess of $ 1.5 Mil. due to value engineering in not dredging the berth.
OTS conducted a hull structural survey of the battleship U.S.S. TEXAS (BB-35) at the San Jacinto State Park, La Porte, Texas on behalf of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD, January 2011. OTS completed, in April 2012, interior tank inspections and prepared a cost analysis and designed the Shipyard Repair 1st phase, are nearing completion with OTS as QA/QC Project Inspector.
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OTS prepared a feasibility study for the possible berthing of battleship U.S.S. IOWA for the Port of Los Angeles.
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OTS was Project Manager for the National Park Service for the restoration of the Fletcher Class destroyer U.S.S. CASSIN YOUNG, at Drydock #1, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston.
OTS completed a comprehensive hull survey and an inspection of the spars/mast/yards of the historic sailing ship JOSEPH CONRAD at Mystic Seaport. OTS developed a repair specification for the temporary repairs required by this historic ship.
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OTS surveyed and subsequently towed the National Historic Landmark cutter INGHAM from her berth at Patriots Point, Mt. Pleasant, SC to a temporary berth in N. Charleston, SC prior to moving her to her final berth at Key West, Florida. OTS developed a Shipyard Specification Package, three Tow Plans for this vessel and was Project Manager for the shipyard drydocking of this vessel in Fall 2009..
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OTS completed a structural survey of the destroyer U.S.S. LAFFEY at Patriots Point Naval Park, Mount Pleasant, SC in early December 2008. OTS prepared a Shipyard Specification Package for the owners. OTS was named Project Manager for the restoration of this historic vessel with a successful tow of the vessel to Detyens Shipyard in N. Charleston, SC. The vessel was in a very unsafe structural condition missing much of her keel and structural scantlings in her four machinery spaces due to degradation. OTS supervised the support of 320 tons of machinery in her four machinery spaces prior to the tow to shipyard. On-going repairs include the repair of five transverse bulkheads and all longitudinal and transverse frames in her four machinery spaces. The shell plating from bow to stern from just above the waterline down to her keel will be replaced with new 3/8” steel plate. The vessel was returned to Patriots Point in 2012.
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OTS performed an onboard assessment of conditions of the forward starboard shell plating aboard battleship U.S.S. NORTH CAROLINA in Fall 2008 and prepared a Shipyard Specification Package for the Owners. OTS subsequently has performed a structural survey of the ship at her berth in Wilmington, North Carolina, Spring 2009.
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OTS performed a structural hull survey aboard destroyer U.S.S. CASSIN YOUNG at Boston National Historic Park and prepared a Shipyard Specification Package for the repair of the destroyer U.S.S. CASSIN YOUNG on behalf of the National Park Service, Fall 2008/Spring 2009.
OTS performed a structural survey aboard the four masted barquentine FALLS OF CLYDE, berthed in Honolulu, Hawaii in the spring of 2007. OTS, as Project Manager, was later tasked by the Bishop Museum with organizing the disposal of this vessel to any qualified party that could materially and financially restore the ship and move the vessel away from the Hawaii Maritime Center at the Aloha Tower complex in downtown Honolulu; when that proved impractical, OTS was tasked with preparing for the at – sea disposal of this historic vessel and secured EPA approval for the preparation of the vessel for SINKEX. The vessel’s unsafe rigging, yards and spars were manually lowered without incident and the remediation of the vessel was completed summer/fall of 2008. The vessel, in exceptionally poor material and structural condition, was remediated to EPA specifications with additional measures made to ensure structural rigidity for the anticipated tow. The vessel was saved at the last minute by a poorly funded, but well intentioned, group in Hawaii that wants to preserve this fine vessel.
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OTS performed a structural hull survey of the submarine U.S.S. CLAMAGORE at Patriots Point Naval Park, Mount Pleasant, SC in spring 2008. OTS also prepared a Shipyard Specification Package for the owners.
