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THE WORLD’S LARGEST UNCREWED FLEET

Ocean Infinity

Ocean Infinity is a pioneer of large scale marine robotic operations. Developing the world’s largest fleet of uncrewed vessels, the company is transforming the maritime industry.

Founded in 2016, Ocean infinity have supported offshore operations such as; seabed surveys, inspections and searches by using the latest marine robotic technology.

In February 2020, Ocean Infinity announced the launch of its own fleet of uncrewed vessels, the Armada fleet. Exceptionally fuel-efficient and onshore-controlled, these vessels will offer sustainable services to all corners of the maritime industry. Equipped with survey sensors and work-class ROVs, the Armada fleet will serve the offshore energy industry supporting inspection, repair and maintenance and site survey work.

Launched in 2016, Ocean Infinity employs more than 120 staff across the United Kingdom and United States.

Since inception, Ocean Infinity has been involved in some of the most advanced uncrewed and robotic fleet operations in the world. The company has completed operations including advanced asset inspection, deep ocean survey, and complex search and salvage, all based on the simultaneous operation of a large number of world-leading robotic assets. With the launch of its new Armada fleet, Ocean Infinity will become the owner and operator of the world’s largest uncrewed fleet. This world first will challenge the status quo use of legacy conventional technologies.

Ocean Infinity’s current fleet of equipment comprise 14 AUVs, 8 USVs and 6 ROVs – more than any other maritime service provider in the world. Ocean Infinity currently operates the Island Pride, a multi-purpose service vessel, and will continue to do so until the Armada fleet is fully operational.

With the simultaneous operation of multiple offshore vehicles including its ROVs, AUVs and USVs, Ocean Infinity is capable of the acquisition, processing and presentation of the most sustainable survey information available anywhere on the planet.

Uncrewed Fleet

The creation of the Armada fleet marks a shift from traditional ways of working to a new, unmanned way of working at sea. This technology will truly transform the way that the global maritime community operates. The Armada fleet is a fleet of custom-designed robotic ships wholly operated via dedicated and redundant satellite communication to enable true over the horizon capability on a global scale. All command and control communication will take place in real time from remote operations centres based in the UK, USA and Asia. The vessels in the Armada fleet range from 21m to 78m in length and are equipped with some of the highest specification sensors and equipment available. Build of the Armada fleet is underway.

Carbon Neutral

Whilst the smaller Armada vessels will operate without crews onboard, the larger vessels will initially utilise a skeleton crew. In due course the vessels will be capable of working with no personnel offshore whilst also consuming solely renewable fuel such as ammonia.

With the combination of exceptional fuel-efficiency, hybrid technology, little or no crew and carbon offsetting, the Armada fleet is the key to a carbon neutral feature for the maritime industry. Capable of operating at such scale across such a plethora of marine applications gives this fleet the ability to transform the way work is carried out at sea.

Inspection, Repair & Maintenance

Along with seabed survey, inspection repair and maintenance (IRM) work will be one of the primary applications offered in the offshore energy space. Services will include; pipeline, platform, subsea structures and seabed inspections providing seamless and diverless operations in water-depths of up to 6000m. Ocean Infinity support operations at the various stages of the asset lifecycle from the concept and feasibility stage through to decommissioning, as well as operating in offshore windfarms/renewables.

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