Subsea Services

A new Diving and Hyperbaric Test Centre (DHTC) has opened on the QinetiQ site at Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire UK.

The inaugural European International Submarine Races (eISR), being held at Gosport, Hampshire, UK during the week of 25 June 2012 are set to capture the imagination.

Ten more Saab Seaeye Falcon ROVs have been ordered by Russia’s JSC Tetis Pro, bringing the total sold into the Russian Federation to 24, and more are planned.

ABB’s UK marine services business has won an order to supply transformers and switchgear for one of the world’s first commercial deep sea mining projects.

The Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment (CDLSE) entered into Full Operational Capability (FOC) with the UK Royal Navy recently.

Portsmouth UK based steel workboat builder Meercat Workboats Ltd has signed a contract to supply a new Meercat RT15 to Norwegian contractors, ØPD Solutions AS.

The Underwater Centre in Scotland has seen a 100% increase in companies using its trials and testing facilities this year.

To save time and money for the owners of a 270m container vessel that was leaking oil, a Hydrex diver/technician team replaced four stern tube seals on site, using one of Hydrex’s…

International diving equipment technology company Divex has been selected by the UK’s Carbon Trust for support within the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme for their Launch and Recovery technology.

Seen as ideal for shallow water wind turbine construction work, four specially designed leaner versions of the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV have been ordered by Pommec, the Netherlands based technology provider…

Scotland’s diving and subsea equipment experts Divex have announced that the Seven Atlantic dive support vessel has reached a major milestone in achieving 1,000 dives without lost time incident (LTI).

U-Boat Worx (UBW), the Dutch submersible manufacturer, now has two submersibles available for charter globally.

The remains of the 252 foot long German submarine, U-513, were recently discovered 245 feet down and 75 miles off the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

One of Britain’s oldest dive schools, Divers Down in Swanage, has christened a new addition to its workboat force.

Specialist Subsea Services Ltd (S³), a Scotland based provider of ROV and survey services to the international energy industry, has announced a seven figure acquisition of two new ROV systems to expand…

American underwater dive specialists JW Fishers has designed a new VRM-1 video recorder and monitor specifically for overcoming traditional difficulties in viewing pictures from underwater cameras.

Kongsberg Maritime launched its most advanced underwater digital stills camera at the Ocean Business 2011 technology exhibition in Southampton UK last month.

International diving equipment technology company Divex, has provided assistance to the Discovery Channel for a Mighty Ships episode they are currently working on.