Undersea Infrastructure Inspection

Blue Coast Consulting (BCC) is looking at the undersea infrastructure inspection market using marine drones. When I was working in publishing, I wrote about the potential advantages of drones versus conventional methods that require putting people onto and under the water - a costly and potentially dangerous situation.

BCC is working with Standard Subsea to provide a drone-based inspection service to various markets. Standard Subsea’s solution uses a custom USV carrying an ROV to the job site and operating them remotely from its network operations center. Applications include undersea cables, offshore wind, dams, bridges, ports and other underwater infrastructure.

BCC’s founder and president, John Manock, has been written about the potential advantages of drones for undersea cable inspection for more than a decade. During that time, the technology has developed to provide the industry with a proven solution to the undersea inspection issue.

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