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Revolutionizing Maritime Biofouling

Management: The EverClean Hull

Maintenance Solution has been a year of advancement and EverClean solution requires little manpower and overhead change in the world of biofouling infrastructure, allowing for cleaning operations to be con- 2023 management, at the business, tech- ducted during a vessel’s normally scheduled port call. A nology and regulatory levels. At the risk of going out of signi? cant new addition to the EverClean portfolio is the chronological order, September marked the launch of ability to deliver a resident solution to vessel owners. The

Greensea IQ and its EverClean hull maintenance solution. resident solution merges the autonomous robot with long

If the EverClean name sounds familiar, that is because it range command and control capabilities, allowing for pro- was originally launched under the Armach Robotics brand. active cleaning to occur during any idle time. For example,

As part of a strategic realignment Greensea Systems and its this capability now allows for vessels to be cleaned while subsidiaries, Bayonet Ocean Vehicles and Armach Robot- at anchor, awaiting arrival in port, or during a port call in a ics merged into a new company named Greensea IQ. This location not currently serviced by an EverClean team. This merger will allow for a more streamlined delivery of rapidly new capability has become a reality by matching the previ- advancing robotic technologies to maritime space. ously developed on-hull navigation and autonomy capabili-

The technology behind EverClean continues to advance, ties with Greensea IQ’s SafeC2 technology that is designed while service capabilities expand. EverClean uses autono- over the horizon command and control of marine robotics. mous robots to deliver proactive hull cleaning services, As the EverClean robot operates with a high degree of au- allowing ship owners to operate with always clean hulls. tonomy, very few control actions need to be sent between

By using small autonomous robots speci? cally designed to the operator and the robot, optimizing how limited radio or target microfouling (the early slime and algae that forms satellite bandwidth is used. A vessel’s crew merely needs on ship hulls), hull cleaning can be completed more eco- to communicate back to Greensea IQ that they would like a nomically and ef? ciently than was previously possible. The hull cleaning and that they are in a safe environment to do

All images courtesy of Greensea IQ 16 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • November 2023

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