REMOTELY OPERATED VESSEL
CLIENT: XOCEAN
LOCATION: Ireland. Remotely operated vessels deployed from LARS will be operating globally.
BRIEF: Design – Prototype – Fabricate
An innovative Launch and Retrieval System (LARS) for the market leading XOCEAN remotely operated survey fleet.
XOCEAN is establishing a global market leading position in the use of Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), to provide turnkey ocean data: from mapping the seabed to environmental monitoring, XOCEAN offers a safe, economic and carbon neutral solution to ocean data delivery – in offshore wind, asset management, fishing, etc.
Increasingly, this work involves the gathering of data on sites that are further offshore – slipway launch and retrieval is impractical, requiring launch and retrieval from the deck of large offshore support vessels. To prevent damage during launch and retrieval offshore XOCEAN required a protective LARS.
Generation 1 was designed and prototyped in 2022. Based on extensive operational testing on projects, XOCEAN and MMG Ocean have developed LARS Generation 2 in early 2024.