EIVA Bags £3.2m UK deal for subsea vehicles – DSEI23

Danish subsea engineering firm, EIVA a/s, has secured a contract worth approximately £3.2 million from the Ministry of Defence.

The deal encompasses the provision of a containerised remotely operated towed vehicle (ROTV) that uses the NaviSuite software for data display.

The ROTV, labelled as EIVA ScanFish L, upon delivery, will be amalgamated with the Royal Navy’s seabed warfare ‘system of systems’. The said system has the capability of functioning from various host platforms and will support the concurrent operation of numerous acoustic survey instruments and sensors.

The functionalities of the containerised ROTV solution by EIVA span over a range of tasks. These include:

• Pipeline inspection
• Large area searches and mine countermeasure (MCM) operations
• Site surveys and seabed mapping
• Cable route surveys
• High-resolution object detection
• Oceanographic data collection throughout the water column

In line with the agreement, EIVA will furnish a fully loaded 20′ Cube container module, accompanied by a launch and recovery system provided by SH Defence, a segment of the SH Group.

The ScanFish L ROTV will be equipped with various sensors, notably Sonardyne’s SPRINT-Nav Mini hybrid INS/DVL and Voyis’ Observer Pro optical camera and Insight Pro laser scanner. EIVA’s NaviSuite software will augment the processing and analysis of gathered data.

A notable feature is the inclusion of two dedicated workstations in the container, which guarantees the system’s complete operational aptitude, negating the requirement to integrate with the military ship Command & Control (C2) system.

Flemming Hjorth, the Acting CEO of EIVA, expressed, “We are thrilled to have been awarded this contract by the UK MOD and to be delivering capability for the Royal Navy. We are excited about this opportunity to continue to provide our expertise in the defence market.”