CONTACT
— THE BRIEF
Five fields. One working day.
Tell us where the site is, how deep it sits and what you need to see. We come back with a lane plan, a vehicle count, a date and a fixed price.
SURVEY PLANNING
VEHICLE SALES
PRESS
CAREERS
— OFFICES
Four offices on four coasts.
57.15°N 2.09°W
Aberdeen
HQ · OPERATIONS ROOM
Vehicle build, pilots and survey planning. The operations room is staffed 24/7.
60.39°N 5.32°E
Bergen
DATA & HYDROGRAPHY
Processing, QC and reporting for Norwegian and Baltic programmes.
29.76°N 95.37°W
Houston
AMERICAS
Gulf of Mexico and Brazil programmes, sales and a docking test tank.
1.29°N 103.85°E
Singapore
ASIA–PACIFIC
Offshore wind in the Taiwan Strait and cable work around Australia.
OPERATIONS
Fourteen vehicles at work on four continents.
Every K6 reports to the Aberdeen operations room over Iridium when it surfaces. One pilot supervises up to six vehicles; the rest of the team plans the next dive.
- Aberdeen operations room57.15°, -2.10°
- Line 7 export pipeline Norwegian Sea3 K6 · surveying
- Hornsea scour campaign North Sea2 K6 · on dock
- Baltic power cable Baltic Sea1 K6 · transit
- Deepwater tieback Gulf of Mexico2 K6 · surveying
- Pre-salt risers Santos Basin2 K6 · surveying
- Seep baseline Gulf of Guinea1 K6 · monthly
- Changhua wind farm Taiwan Strait2 K6 · surveying
- Bass Strait cable Bass Strait1 K6 · planning
AFTER YOU SEND
What happens once the brief lands.
- DAY 001Scope call
Send the site, the asset list and what you need to see. A survey planner replies with a lane plan.
- DAY 1–302Mission plan
We model currents and seabed, pick the payload and agree deliverables and a fixed price.
- DAY 503Launch
K6 launches from the quay or your dock and flies to site. You watch it live in Tidewire.
- DAY 5–804Survey
The vehicle flies the lanes, re-flies anything it is unsure of and surfaces to report.
- DAY 905Report
Grids, mosaics and the event list land in your inbox, compared with your last survey.
QUESTIONS
What operators ask before the first dive.
Still unsure? Our survey planners answer within one working day.
For most work, no. K6 launches from a quay or a small crew-transfer vessel and flies to site on its own. For fields more than 140 km offshore we deploy a Lantern dock and the vehicle lives there between dives.
The standard hull is rated to 6,000 m, which covers 98% of the world's seabed. Our inshore K3 is rated to 300 m and fits in the back of a van.
Pricing is per kilometre of line or per square kilometre of area, not per day. On 2025 programmes that came to 61% less than the equivalent survey-ship day rate, with the same deliverables.
Yes. Operators with a year-round programme usually buy two K6 and a dock, and we train their pilots. Lead time is 16 weeks from order.
Bathymetry as GeoTIFF and XYZ, side-scan as GeoTIFF mosaics plus raw XTF, and inspection events as PDF and CSV with KP, position, size and photos.
All survey data belongs to you. We keep an encrypted copy for 90 days so we can compare the next pass, then delete it unless you ask us to keep it.