“If we are talking about a transition from a conventional vessel to a USV, what we find is that once a higher complexity of tasks presents, human intervention and/or a typical survey vessel are, for the time being, still required. However, while USVs currently do not have the capacity to do all the types of tasks that a conventional vessel might – such as cable route preparation– Sulmara is concentrating primarily on conducting survey operations from a USV platform, mainly geophysical surveys,” Andy Doggett , Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Sulmara, said in an interview with offshoreWIND.biz.

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