VEHICLES
THE PLATFORM
Every vehicle runs the same autonomy stack.
01Depth rating
0 m
Covers 98% of the world's seabed
02Endurance
0 h
At 3 knots with the full sensor suite on
03Mapped per day
0 km²
At 5 cm resolution, 12 m above the floor
04Cheaper than a ship day
0 %
Average saving across 2025 client programmes
— THE LINE-UP
Pick the hull for the water, the payload for the job.
Every vehicle below flies with Tidewire and reports in the same formats, so inshore and deep-water surveys join up.
Survey AUV
6,000 m
K6 Survey
A 4.4 m autonomous survey vehicle rated to 6,000 m. Flies lines at 4 knots, then stops and hovers over anything worth a closer look.
Inshore AUV
300 m
K3 Inshore
A two-person-lift version of K6 for ports, cable landfalls and dam inspections. Launches from a slipway or a RIB.
Hover AUV
3,000 m
K6 Intervention
K6 with a forward tool skid: cleans anodes, reads cathodic-protection probes and turns manual valves without an ROV spread.
Seabed dock
3,000 m
Lantern Dock
A resident dock that charges, protects and uploads a K6 between dives, powered from the field umbilical or a wave buoy.
Fleet software
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Tidewire
Mission planning, live fleet tracking and change detection in one web app. Plans lanes, shares a map between vehicles and flags what changed since the last pass.
Sensor payload
6,000 m
Ridgeline Payload
A Mills-cross multibeam and dual-frequency side-scan in a single pressure-tolerant payload module for K6 and K3.
THE VEHICLE
Six modules. One afternoon to swap a payload.
Every K6 section is a sealed, pressure-rated module with the same wet-mate connectors. Change the payload bay for a laser scanner or a water sampler on the quayside, not in a factory.
- 01PropulsionGuarded 1.2 kW ducted thruster · X-tail · 4 anodes
- 02Energy24 kWh pressure-tolerant Li-ion · 72 h at 3 kn
- 03NavigationFibre-optic INS · Iridium + GPS mast · strobe
- 04Payload bay400 kHz multibeam · 900 kHz side-scan staves
- 05Hover4 guarded tunnel thrusters · 600 kHz DVL
- 06Vision4K stereo camera · 8 × 2,500 lm LED ring
— COMPARE
Side by side.
Ratings are for the standard configuration. Ask us about deeper or longer variants.
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.
NEXT DIVE
See a K6 fly your site before you buy.
Send the site, the depth and what you need to see. A survey planner replies within one working day with a lane plan and a fixed price.