Largest in this registry
#8,094
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest rig / offshore unit
#67
of 856 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 11 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9203679
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 576068000
- Call sign
- YJVY6
- Flag state
- Vanuatu
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Rig / offshore unit
In context
How Deepwater Discovery compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 59,632 gross tons, Deepwater Discovery is the 8,094th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 9.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 67th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.
Vanuatu is the country of registry for 425 vessels in this directory, of which Deepwater Discovery is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (208 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,446 GT. Browse every ship flagged Vanuatu.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 44 rig / offshore units flying the Vanuatu flag, of which none is larger than Deepwater Discovery.
Deepwater Discovery was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 156th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 230.5 m overall, Deepwater Discovery is 156.5 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9203679 this registry holds 61 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Samsung Heavy Industries
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Transocean
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
