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“World First” Resident Subsea Contract

What is being called ‘the world’s ? rst resident subsea contract’ has been awarded to Modus by Equinor Energy for the autonomous deployment of a Saab Sabertooth underwa- ter robot, which will remain docked on the seabed between tasks. The Saab Sabertooth will remain at a subsea docking station for charging and data transfer between missions at the

Johan Sverdrup oil ? eld, Norway. Over-the-horizon mission management will come from Modus’ Command and Control

Center at its UK head of? ce. A key challenge was achiev- ing, while underwater, millimeter precision tasking from a remote location. This was achieved by circumventing latency with Saab’s iCON intelligent control system. The 3000m rated

Sabertooth was seen by UTF as achieving a world ? rst after proving the potential for marine autonomous systems to take a greater role in underwater inspection, repair and maintenance methodologies. Modus sees the project demonstrating the major bene? ts of resident underwater intervention drones.

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SEA-KIT International secured funding through

Round 2 of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competi- tion (CMDC) to design a hydrogen powered, zero emission

Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV). SEA-KIT worked with

Bramble Energy on a CMDC Round 1 project to marinize a

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Hydrogen Fuel Cell. This latest

Ocean Lander funding win will see the two companies continue their col-

COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS laboration, implementing Round 1 outputs into a proof-of- concept USV design that meets the performance, reliability and cost saving challenges of a fast-growing, global marine autonomy market – with zero carbon emissions. The ‘Zero

Emission H-Class Ocean USV’ project, scheduled to start in globaloceandesign.com

January 2023, represents a signi? cant step towards the com- mercialization of clean fuel vessel technology. [email protected] 858.560.1799 www.marinetechnologynews.com

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