Another successful pipe line campaign completed in time, despite the weather.

Falcon ROV with multi probe 

ROV Station

End of job picture.

Busy Season

We have had another busy season this year with clump weight rigging on the wave site, adcp recoveries, cable route surveys, cable surveys, pipe line surveys, salmon mooring inspection and a host of other works.
We have recently had this write up of a job we did down off Northern Ireland: please follow the link
http://www.seaeye.com/whatsnew.html

Recent pictures from a survey job in the Irish Sea.

Torr Head Northern Ireland where we had the pleasure of working with MESL.

Copy and paste the link below to see a published article about this survey.

http://issuu.com/bickers/docs/ww18/c/suvjg4y

On Sat 21st of March we free boated  as we dived Falcon 1267 around the wrecks of the German sunken fleet, and got some great HD footage of two Konig Class Battleships and the Light Cruiser the Dresden II. Please click on the link to view the dive on the Dresden.

http://youtu.be/Dmwk3p_ysaI

We had a very enjoyable and successful promo shoot for the New Seatronics Predator ROV System.
Shot in Scapa Flow during  westerly gale force conditions, on the wreck of the Mara.

                                                                  Cape Wrath

                                                        Torr Head

                                                   Ready to dive.

                                                 White Sided Dolphin

 Our contract to do a benthic study with MESL had us steam from Stromness to Oban where we picked up the MESL Surveyors and then carried on to Ballycastle( our operating base) where we completed the survey in 3 days.  Please follow the link.  http://subseaworldnews.com/2014/10/24/mesl-in-benthic-characterisation-for-torr-head-tidal-project/

       
http://www.offshorewind.biz/2014/10/29/mesl-carries-out-benthic-characterisation-survey-for-tidal-energy-project/

The Advance showing it's amazing station keeping abilities at the Tidal Site.

                                         

                                            Pictures showing our work with Wello-Oy. 

The picture of the Lodesman was taken from Peter Shearer's Grob, while the team was busy with pipe line, SPM and jetty surveys, within Scapa Flow and the Eastern landfall part of the MOL. The work scope was completed successfully during April 2014.

Our New Vessel the "Advance"

Another refit period complete, and the Lodesman has a new Cat 2 certificate. The stability booklet has been updated for the alterations made to the vessel. The new additions include raising the bulwarks at the bow giving a complete set of handrails around the boat at 1M high. The deckhouse has a new wet room and there is a new Simrad electronics package in the wheel house.

Curious Prawn

                                             Lodesman at work.

                                                               

                                          This skate was seen while surveying

Block salvage from beneath the sand.

Magnetometer found and rescued from 75M of the West Coast of Orkney

ADCP rescue from 72M in the Pentland Firth, using Falcon 12169 and 4 function manipulator.

The dive took 14 mins, and included locating ADCP from the as laid position.

March 2013

Lodesman and the team spent 25 days in Shetland doing Inter Island cable surveys before coming back to Orkney to finish off the Inter Island cable surveys started in February.
North Link ferry going past the Fair Isle.

Stressful Dive ahead at the Emec Tidal Site