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Founded
  
1997

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) is an employee owned marine services company that performs complex manned and unmanned underwater operations worldwide. Phoenix was incorporated in 1996 as Phoenix Marine, Inc. and started doing business in 1997. It changed its name in January 2000 to Phoenix International, Inc., and then to Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. in November 2007 when it became an employee owned company.

Contents

The company’s core business segments include waterborne ship repairs; underwater inspection, maintenance and repair; deep ocean search and recovery; submarine rescue; and marine engineering. They provide expertise in underwater welding (wet and dry chamber); non-destructive testing; conventional and one-atmosphere manned diving; and side scan sonar and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operations. The marine engineering services that Phoenix provides include unmanned underwater vehicles, underwater robotics, cofferdams & weight handling fixtures, and diving systems. Its customers include U.S. and foreign navies and government agencies; the oil and gas, subsea mining and entertainment industries; and the archaeological community.

Contracts

Phoenix currently holds three US Navy contracts that require emergency response. These three contracts are:

  • Undersea Operations - worldwide rapid response undersea search and salvage operations and related engineering services in support the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV).
  • Diving and Diving Related Services - air, mixed gas and saturation diving and related engineering services in support of the SUPSALV mission areas of diving, salvage and underwater ship repair.
  • Submarine Rescue - management, engineering, technical and logistical support services required to operate and maintain the U.S. Navy’s Domestic and International Submarine Rescue Program assets in rescue ready status 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

    • Notable projects

    Notable projects in which Phoenix has participated include:

  • The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370;
  • Air France Flight 447, Yemenia Flight 626, Adam Air Flight 574, and Tuninter Flight 1153 black box recoveries;
  • Underwater inspection of the Deepwater Horizon control room;
  • The discovery and forensic survey of the Israeli submarine INS Dakar;
  • The search for Space Shuttle Columbia debris;
  • USS Monitor turret recovery;
  • RMS Titanic documentary investigations and mapping projects;
  • The design, fabrication, and testing of a Saturation Fly-Away Diving System (SAT FADS) for the U.S. Navy;
  • Bold Monarch 2011.

    • Offices

    Phoenix has eight offices in seven geographic locations:

  • Largo, MD
  • Bayou Vista, LA
  • Norfolk, VA
  • Houston, TX
  • San Diego, CA (two separate offices)
  • Pearl City, HI
  • Fort Lauderdale, FL

    • References

    Phoenix International Holdings Wikipedia
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