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Sonardyne: Navigating change – Sustainability.

Back in 2021, we set ourselves the target of making Sonardyne carbon neutral by the end of 2025, covering all direct and indirect emissions including those associated with manufacturing as well as supply chain activities from all our UK sites and operations. There is no better time than now to update you on some of …

More than a remote possibility, enabling uncrewed vehicle operations offshore.

Uncrewed surface vehicles are fast becoming a powerful tool in offshore operations across the defence, energy and science sectors. Marine Robotics Business Development Manager Aidan Thorn explains how using our Ranger 2 family of USBL transceivers with your uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) enables truly remote operations when tracking, positioning and communicating with unmanned underwater vehicles …

Ready to go out of the box, first time and every time – Why we pre-calibrate SPRINT-Nav.

In this first blog of our navigation series, we focus on our product calibration and why it’s so important for your operations. In marine robotic operations, reliable and accurate navigation ensures reliable and accurate data collection. Therefore, it’s important the sensors providing navigation inputs to the marine robot are performing optimally each time they are …

Robotics and Renewables – exploring offshore wind opportunities

Over the coming weeks, our Marine Robotics and Offshore Renewable Energy Business Development Managers Aidan Thorn and Mike Ellis will be delivering a series of blogs and a white paper on the use of marine robotics for planning, monitoring, communications and positioning in offshore wind farms. To begin the series, we look at how robotics …

Locate: Communicate: Extricate

Our company was founded 52 years ago on the need for improved location of divers and subsea equipment for safety purposes. This remains at the core of what we do today. Here, the three essential elements of surface and diver interaction are covered in a series of blogs by retired Royal Navy Commander Justin Hains …

Crew transfer vessel – and autonomy enabler?

Monitoring and inspection are now a growing part of the offshore wind farm life cycle. Can we do it more efficiently, using CTV down-time to deploy robotics? Mike Ellis and Aidan Thorn take a look. A lot of the focus on offshore wind has been about building the next, bigger, deeper wind farms. Rightly so. …

Meeting the demands of Brazil’s upstream

Brazil’s offshore is riding on a high that looks set to continue for some years to come. It can be a demanding place to work, but rewarding if you can meet those demands. Andre Moura, Sonardyne’s Head of Sales – South America, looks at how C-Innovation are doing just that and the role our USBL …

Raising the Mary Rose – a journey in marine archaeology

Locating, surveying and then raising the iconic wreck of Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, has gone down in UK maritime history. Forty years since it was raised from the seabed, Nigel Kelland, reflects on how Sonardyne played a key role in this fascinating piece of history – a role which continues, even today. Today, …

New home, new role, new business challenges

The Sonardyne Asia team has news: we’re investing in new premises in Singapore! Jose Puig, our head of sales for Asia, explains why, when and how there’s a lot to be excited about across the wider region. Six months ago, I moved into my new role as head of sales here in Asia and I’m …