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Research Vessel Services provides professional marine technician support to ocean and coastal research vessels across the globe.

Our team is made up of highly qualified technicians from the top institutes with over 40 years "at sea" experience spanning 400 global expeditions on both European and US research vessels

Each of our technicians has experience supporting expeditions at all stages of the cruise lifecycle from technical assessment of cruise proposals through to mobilisation, at sea support, demobilisaton, post-crui

se assessment and cruise legacy management

We can also provide additional technical assistance to embedded technicians during vessel dry docking and refit periods All our technicians are qualified operator/maintainers of Kongsberg blue water systems including EM710, EM120 and EM302 multibeam systems. Our team members hold ROV Pilot/Technician, high voltage, post processing and STCW qualifications as-standard.

08/04/2017

Research Vessel Services offers on-site technical support during vessel dry docking and refit periods. With experience in all aspects of science support at sea we know the importance of dry docking and refit periods in preparing the vessel for its next successful
campaign

20/03/2017

Its been a few weeks since I have written anything as the team have been busy in dry dock overseeing the overhaul of some pretty cool acoustic systems (EM302, EM710, EA600, EK60, TDI ADCP's). It takes experience and attention to detail to get the best out of these systems - something our team of experienced techs has in abundance! Stay tuned!

10/02/2017

Great evening presenting ORCA and Marine Tech support in Chester. Amazing hosts! Now to enjoy the beautiful city

04/02/2017

Looking a little bare without her masts RRS Discovery, Dundee, UK. The Director of Marine Operations had the opportunity to visit this iconic research vessel last week and see the preservation work that is helping safeguard this historic ship for future generations. It's amazing to think how much has changed since Robert Falcon's Scott's expedition a century ago

04/02/2017

Great evening of data presentations in Glasgow. A big thank you to the team at Subsea Defence for their hospitality and support.

31/01/2017

Supporting science off the Scottish coast has more challenges than just the fog and weather.

22/01/2017

The technology in Oceanography has certainly changed a lot in the last twenty years. We have seen amazing breakthroughs and advances in ship systems, sensors, AUV's, UAV's, ROV's and HOV's. Our team has supported expeditions throughout this period and have experience of established oceanographic data collection methods as well as the latest emerging technologies.

Here's a picture from 16 years ago ;-)

22/01/2017

A sailor's Discharge Book is a great record of ships and service but nothing is more important than our teams log books and record of competence to show applied science support at sea. Its amazing to think I've now supported 100 expeditions and I look forward to supporting many more in the future!

22/01/2017

It's not just scientists who check out the science sensors. An Albatross shows its immense wingspan in comparison with the meteorological sensors on the vessels main mast. As a technician you quickly learn which birds have a tendency to sit on GPS antennas or peck at meteorological sensors.

21/01/2017

ROV Data logging and collation! Need a software solution for collating and annotating ROV or Vessel Data? ORCA may be the system you need! Contact us for more information.

21/01/2017

What a fluke! Every humpback fluke is unique and our team has supported MMO operations across the globe including Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic and the Pacific. Here's a nice picture from the Fjords of Greenland snapped by Leighton

21/01/2017

Research Vessel Services development of ORCA (Ocean Research Collection and Archiving) is meeting very positive reviews. The development of the software is based on the following concept points

COLLECT – The acquisition of data from sensors onboard a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), Research Vessel (RV) or similar platform.

CHECK – The automated validation of data from each sensor to ensure that the received sensor values fall within specific parameters and are free from erroneous data.

COMMIT – Recording the sensor data and validation checks to a central data repository

COLLATE – Bringing the individual sensor data together in single dataset and collating individual data files into a data centre ready structure.

COMMENT – Using ORCA’s inbuilt event logging function the users can annotate events and data acquisition to assist with big data handling and third party understanding of the dataset.

COMPOSE – ORCA allows the user to generate custom datasets from acquired sensor data in the form of user configurable file exports, graphs and file downloads.

CIRCULATE – The dataset, files and annotations can be circulated to collaborators and the community via ORCA’s web interface

19/01/2017

ORCA (Ocean research Collection and Archiving) and ORCADIA (Ocean Research Collection Archiving Data Interface App) are Research Vessel Services latest software solution. This system has been developed in conjunction with UK Scientists to develop a simplistic user-friendly interface for reviewing, interrogating and exporting ROV/Vessel acquired datasets

19/01/2017

Sorry for the lack of updates. Our team is busy working on ORCA (Ocean research Collection & Archiving) system and its big (Scottish) brother ORCADIA. These are web based system designed for the presentation, analysis and distribution of ROV acquired data. We are pleased to announce our first version of this system has now been trialled and received very positive results. More to come!

12/01/2017

Latest naming proposal accepted - Ffynnon Garw as part of our day-to-day technicians job :-)

29/11/2016

As the ship pulls away from the quay the technicians are ensuring the systems are all working and getting data. The list is long! EM302, Em710, EK60, USBL, EA600, Seapath 300, POSMV, CNAV, KSYNC, VMM, SBE45, SBE38, Flurometer, Turbidity Sensors, PH Sensors, MetPak Pro's, Seaspy Magnetometer to name just a few and that's before we even begin with the ROV! What would we do without technicians?!!

26/11/2016

Current expedition in the US territory of Guam. ROV operations in the Mariana Back Arc. The other side of the planet and a temperature difference of 30 degrees from Scotland.

07/11/2016

Outreach is about capturing the attention of your target audience. Our technicians have been involved in promoting oceanographic and hydrographic operations for over 15 years.

07/11/2016

Some of our technical team supporting oceanographic and hydrographic operations at sea

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