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Sulmara continues to invest in the future of USV solutions



Fast-growing Scottish subsea services specialist Sulmara has set its sights on further success after investing $1.6 million in equipment which will allow it to limit the environmental impact of offshore operations.

Glasgow-headquartered Sulmara has placed the order with Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. for several of its Wave Adaptive Modular Vessels (WAM-V), a dual-hull Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) which specialises in near-shore data collection.

New Jersey firm OPT said it was the largest single order it had ever received. And Andy Doggett, Chief Technology Officer at Sulmara, said the investment was a sign of things to come from the company.

He said: “Sulmara has built an extensive track record of project delivery with USV systems in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, where we have demonstrated the ability of uncrewed systems to produce quality data in the harshest of environments with a minimal cost to the environment.

“Given it has unique characteristics including being light-weight and modular, possessing a very shallow draft and wave adaptive stability, as well as being fully electric, the WAM-V systems can carry out operations in areas where other vessels struggle and with a massively reduced carbon footprint.

"We have worked closely with the design and engineering team at OPT to adapt the WAM-V design to include additional features such as the towing of subsea sensors to widen the system’s capability to meet the needs of our clients from both a data delivery and carbon cost perspective.”