Saga Subsea to purchase nearshore ROV- and Survey Vessel

Saga Subsea have with it`s parent company Viking Kystservice, purchased a vessel to be utilized for inshore and nearshore marine operations.

The Vessel is specially built for survey- and ROV operations but have also been customized as a AUV (Autonomous Vehicle) support vessel on previous campaigns.

Currently located at Killingøy Subsea & Offshorebase the vessel will for the next two months be alongside to conduct thorough maintenance, and further be upgraded to technically be prepared according to the highest standards expected in the marked. 

Our vision is to have a standby vessel that is fast an agile, ready for operation at any time

With a sailing class 4, the vessel can operate as far as 20 miles from the coast. Equipped with strong water jets and a catamaran hull with a 0,5m draft, she has the ability to work all the way into the beach and in shallow waters. As the vessel is fitted with moonpool for ROV launch, she is able to operate at higher sea-state than other comparable vessels. 

Previously Saga Subsea supported a campaign with this vessel and together with a AUV company conducted a AUV survey on one of the main gas export pipes from Norway to Europe. The project was commenced for the AUV company to prove their technology, where the vessel have supported several AUV campaigns in the past for various surveys, geophysical mappings (bathymetry, shallow seismic, and side-scan sonar), hull mounted seismic survey and more.

Saga Subsea`s vision for the vessel will be to still support these types of activities, but in addition have a ROV system permanently installed onboard to have a complete package able to support Client within the fields of inspections, subsea cable, underwater gas pipes and more.

In addition, Saga Subsea has a close collaboration with Maritime Museums, and Archeologic Museum and added into a larger research project named Maktens Havn.

Web-Pages for Maktens Havn: https://www.maktenshavn.no/

For the attendance in this project, the vessel and subsea technology will be used to search for sunken trade vessels, Viking ships and other artifacts of archaeological interest hidden below the surface. 

For Saga Subsea to attend such a project is of the highest importance, for us to use our vessel and technology to better understand how the archaeologists are working, what they are looking for and how to handle things found. This will make us able to further develop new subsea technology, and be competitive in an international market not traditionally attended by the subsea industry.

Further the technology can be utilized also for environmental research, green economy projects and contribute to a technological development, for the Norwegian supplier marked still being a world leader in this segment.