# The largest diamond recovery vessel in the world has arrived in Cape Town after a four-week long maiden voyage from Mangalia in Romania. It will be equipped in the Mother City before beginning operations off the Namibian coast early next year. A spokesperson for De Beers Marine, Michael Curtis, says the delivery marks the end of the shipbuilding phase of a landmark project that began over three years ago. The vessel will use sub-sea crawling extraction techniques to retrieve diamonds from the seabed.