SITE SURVEYS
We offer a comprehensive, fully assured service package including regulatory licensing and consenting, site investigation surveys, hydro-dynamic analysis, mooring system and aquaculture structure design, supply, installation, inspection and planned maintenance programmes. Our technical services include:
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Desktop Bathymetric & Geotechnical Survey
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Design Concept Development to meet commercial objectives of cultivation
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Dimensioning & Specification of cultivation frame and mooring system
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Supply and assembly of materials (growing medium by arrangement)
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AUV Survey, preparation and mobilisation of equipment & operators
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Side scan sonar (geo-referenced)
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Hydrographic survey including wave climate assessment, bathymetric mapping (2D charted)
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Parametric sub-bottom sonar to establish seabed composition and depth to inform anchoring strategy
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Tidal currents from mobile ADCP survey
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Sea temperature and salinity (2D geo-referenced)
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Seabed video, motion video and still images of significant features of note
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Mathematical modelling of predicted drag loads and mooring forces
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Detailed Load Analysis & Design
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Hydrodynamic modelling of loading on physical frame & growing structures
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