Subsea Services

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Tübitak, has taken delivery of a 2000-DSS combined side scan sonar and sub-bottom profiler system manufactured by EdgeTech, a leading US manufacturer of underwater…

Commercial divers will be trained to detect unexploded bombs in a new partnership between explosives disposal experts Ramora UK and the Professional Diving Academy, Dunoon.

Norwegian subsea operation specialist, Swire Seabed, has placed an order for two Kystdesign Supporter Work-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles (WROVs) with Lidan Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS), for delivery in February 2016. Swire…

USA-based Boston Engineering has announced the award of a $500,000 START Stage III grant from MassVentures to accelerate the commercialisation of its BIOSwimmer and related autonomous UUV technology.

Following an energy sharing scheme between Iceland and the UK first agreed in 2012, Atlantic Superconnection Corporation plans to build a 1000km cable between Iceland and the United Kingdom. Sweden’s MMT has…

Australia-headquartered naval architecture firm Incat Crowther has been contracted to design a pair of 43m Monohull Dive Support Vessels.

UK-based Subsea Vision Limited has recently added a fourth Saab Seaeye Cougar XT, 2000 metre-rated ROV to its unexploded ordnance (UXO) disposal team.

Swedish underwater specialist MMT has announced participation and sponsorship on the investigation on the 530 year old wreck of the ‘Gribshunden’ outside Ronneby, Sweden.

A joint expedition has recently created three-dimensional underwater maps of Roman shipwrecks in the Aeolian Islands. A team of scientists and experts under the direction of the Professor Sebastiano Tusa, Superintendent of…

Keynvor MorLift Ltd has added a second Saab Seaeye Cougar XT to their ROV fleet. This new addition comes fully containerised and can be easily transported across the globe.

Underwater technology specialist MacArtney has signed a representative agreement with its long standing business partner, EMS Sistemas de Monitorización Medio Ambiental in Barcelona, Spain to promote and support MacArtney across all Spanish…

With the subsea industry looking to cut costs, Bluestream Offshore has ordered a fourth Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV to undertake tasks normally performed by hydraulic vehicles.

Connecting slings and shackles on heavy lift operations is complicated and potentially dangerous because of the weight and difficulty of handling the components of heavy lift connection shackles. It can be even…

A unique sensor platform that is designed to recharge its own batteries has been developed by Canadian company Seaformatics. This new unit has been designed to sit on the ocean floor for…

RS Divers Ltd were called by Solent Towage to salvage their sunken tug Asterix on 30-03-15. The Tug had gone down, narrowly avoiding incurring loss of life at Fawley Refinery on Southampton…

A team of scientists from the UK, USA and Australia have used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to capture detailed, high-resolution 3D maps of Antarctic sea ice and provide accurate ice thickness…

Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. and the University of Hawaii (UH) have jointly developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can effectively deploy seafloor sensing equipment by combining features of a free-swimming…

Australian work catamaran specialist Incat Crowther claim that their new Catamaran Dive Support Vessel, ‘Bhagwan Dryden’, has set a new standard for catamaran dive support vessels since its launch and delivery last…