Harbours and Marinas

Services to Harbours, Marinas, Boaties and Yachties

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Yachts in a Marina

Save time, reduce costs and improve safety with diverless inspection programmes.

Our Micro ROV can be deployed from land, jetty, pontoon or boat and provides:

• Systematic, fully recorded inspections
• Inspect piles, supports, subsea stabilisation systems
• Piers, jetties and vessel moorings
• Navigation buoys and beacons
• Find items lost overboard
• Carry out debris clearance
• Check corrosion of chains and shackles
• Yacht hull inspections

Every year (at least) a mariner, boatie or yachtie wants to know what the state of his (or her) bottom is. Rather than go for a costly lifting your boat onto the hard, or trying your own inspection if you are not an experienced diver, why not take a look from the deck and see if a lift out it is really necessary.

Whether your bottom is made of steel, concrete or fibreglass, using Micro ROV Services is the quicker and safer method of obtaining information about the state of your hull, and the information is recorded for later review at your leisure. And while we are at it, lets check on your moorings to make sure your nice clean post refit hull does not drift away because of a rusted shackle.

And while we are at it, lets check on your moorings to make sure your nice clean post refit hull does not drift away because of a rusted shackle.

In Marinas we can quickly and efficiently inspect all piles and underwater fittings including instruments to assess cathodic protection, deterioration of anodes, and wasting of metals.

Debris clearance in Marinas is important, with the sonar we can find lost objects and accurately position them for recovery. If it is small enough (that Rolex watch), the manipulator can pick it up and return it to you.

The Videoray Micro ROV

Weighing in at only 4.8 kgs (10.6 lbs) and being only 36 cm (14.2") long and 27 cm (11") wide the Pro-4 is small, light and easily deployed. In fact it is literally "throw it in the water. At only 21cm (8.5") high it can fit easily into most submerged pipelines, intakes or outfalls and spaces which are unreachable by a diver.

Small but powerful the Videoray Pro-4 can travel at 4.2 knots, see with the high resolution TV quality camera under the bright illumination of two Halogen lights. If the water is murky, there is the Blue View sonar sweeping the area and showing in sharp relief what’s ahead.

Found something? if it's small enough the manipulator can pick it up, if not the smart tether allows us to position it for later recovery by divers.

Want to measure or test something? the range of accessories allows on the spot testing of cathodic protection, determine metal thickness, detect radiation, sample water quality, and take measurements with a laser.

The ROV is a boon to the underwater world – for photographers, scientists, environmentalists, search and rescue, law enforcement, customs and excise, dam inspections, tank inspections, commercial and offshore oil and gas installation and monitoring, fisheries, recreational divers, hull inspections for yachties and commercial shipping, inspection of wharves, piers, moorings and harbour facilities and many more uses which are being discovered daily.