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stablished in the port Liverpool, Water Witch has accumulated over 50 years’ experience by working in the
city’s docks from the early 1960s. The company’s team of experts has continued to hone their skills, gain experience and enhance the performance of Water Witch craft, and now operate across Europe and the Middle East with a tried and trusted range of customisable trash skimmers, barges and dredgers. Water Witch creates partnerships with waterway management, port authorities and tourist resorts to provide an answer to cleaning up all types of floating debris and waste that pollutes their environment.
Trash skimmer The Water Witch Versi-Cat is extremely adaptable for a huge range of applications ranging from providing a fast-response to pollution control emergencies to supplying a mobile pump-out service, as well as lifting moorings with the use of a removable lifting frame, diving and maintenance support. The design incorporates a variety
of ‘pods’ that sit between the twin hulls, enabling many tasks to be undertaken. The pod system allows heavy items to be loaded directly on to the quayside and lifted into the
vessel via a crane with no need to manhandle the equipment to the water. The Versi-Cat’s principle function is the efficient collection of litter,
debris and aquatic vegetation from the water surface into a removable basket, which can be lifted and tipped directly into a skip or shoreside receptacle for disposal. The design allows floating items, as well as semi-submerged debris to simply collect between the hulls without any complex equipment or machinery. When not in collection mode, the basket can be winched up to ensure good transit speeds and the system can even be operated with the deck plates in position. The 7 m and 8 m hulls offer a spacious working deck area with adequate room for sorting waste. The Cargo Pod is designed specifically for transporting up to 1 tonne of cargo and equipment for use on or off the water. The pod can be craned in and out of the Versi-Cat empty or full, allowing the operator to keep a range of pre-configured pods on hand for jobs such as discrete mobile pump- out and grey water storage, wash down and waste disposal. Harbour operators can efficiently service
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