ALSEAMAR develops, manufactures, operates and maintains high-performance underwater solutions for demanding scientific, marine energies and defense applications.
As a continued partner, UST is highlighting the company’s unique solutions via the ALSEAMAR supplier profile. Their innovative product portfolio includes the long-endurance SEAEXPLORER line of underwater gliders, as well as advanced solutions for buoyancy, submarine-based UAV deployment, and ocean data collection.
Read on to find out more:
The SEAEXPLORER line of UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles) offers powerful autonomous sensing and data collection capabilities, with extended endurances of up to eight weeks. Utilizing variable-buoyancy propulsion with large ballasting volumes, the vehicles move silently up and down the water column, and can be equipped with a wide range of payloads for missions such as oceanographic data collection, rapid environmental assessment, acoustic monitoring and anti-submarine warfare.
SEAEXPLORER gliders are highly cost-effective and feature low logistical footprints, requiring no support vessels during the mission, and can be easily deployed from a research vessel.
ALSEAMAR’s BMTI division provides a wide range of subsea buoyancy solutions for ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), resident underwater vehicles and trenching machines. BMTI offers standard foam blocks and fully customized buoyancy modules manufactured in-house using proprietary formulations and materials technology, with a full project management service to assist with every stage of the process.
BMTI buoyancy solutions can be provided for depths from 1000 down to 12,000 meters, and are precision-machined and finished with protective PUR coatings, paints and high-strength metal inserts.
The BLACK BIRD system equips deepwater submarines with a UAV-launching capability that allows the vessel to collect vital real-time data above the surface while remaining submerged for maximum covertness.
The system utilizes a compact quadcopter drone launched from a tubular underwater vehicle, as well as a communications antenna relay that floats on the surface to deliver data from the drone to the submarine.
ALSEAMAR can also provide full turnkey services utilizing the SEAEXPLORER platform, encompassing mission planning, glider deployment and recovery, 24/7 operation, real-time and post mission data processing, and final reports. Potential applications include:
Marine & Environmental Science:
- Oceanography
- Water quality & pollution measurement
- Eutrophization
- Acoustic survey
Subsea Oil & Gas Installations and Offshore Platforms:
- Environmental baseline monitoring
- Operations support & Metocean
- Oil spill response
- Pre-exploration/seep hunting
- Marine mammal survey
- Offshore energy infrastructure & pipeline monitoring
SEAEXPLORER is also ideal for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and rapid environmental assessment (REA) missions.
