About Our Equipment Rental
MetOcean Solutions manages a pool of specialised oceanographic and hydrographic survey equipment that is available for third-party hire. We can help you find the right gear for your project. Our technical team has considerable experience designing and running oceanographic data collection programs, and can assist you to achieve a safe and successful outcome.
Equipment List
| Category | Equipment | Quantity | Description |
| Data buoys | Metocean data buoy | 1 | A robust 3 m discus buoy designed for shelf or deepwater deployments. Fitted with 2 wind sensors (4.4 and 7.2 m elevation), temperature and barometric pressure. Hourly data logging and telemetry via Inmarsat or Argos. Triaxys wave module can be added to this platform. |
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| Wave data buoy | 2 | Triaxys Directional Wave Buoy. Telemetry options include GSM, Inmarat and Iridium. | |
| Met stations | Wind station | 3 | Remote land based wind stations with 1 Hz internal logging and GSM telemetry. 5-10 m masts available. |
| Buoyancy | Deepwater flotation units | 15 | 25 kg buoyancy, 1000m rated, syntactic foam in plastic shell |
| Deepwater flotation units | 8 | 8 kg buoyancy, 1000m rated, syntactic foam in plastic shell | |
| VINY buoys | 14 | Available in singles or in sets (2, 4 or 8) within a frame. Rated to 200 m. | |
| Seismic | Klein 595 Side Scan Sonar | 1 | Dual frequency 100/500 khz |
| Tritech Starfish Side Scan | 2 | 450 khz, small boat system | |
| Klein Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 | 3.5 khz | |
| Marine Magnetometer | 1 | Barringer model | |
| Hydrographic | Knudsen 320 M/P sounder | 1 | Dual frequency 33/200 khz |
| Raytheon DB 719 sounder | 1 | Dual frequency 33/200 khz | |
| Trimble Hydro PRO | 1 | Navigation and data collection software | |
| Simrad Kongsberg EM 3000 Multibeam System | 1 | Complete with TSS MAHRS and Triton Elics data acquisition PC | |
| Trimble MS 750 RTK GPS | 1 | Suitable for land and marine survey | |
| Trimble R8 ,GNSS RTK GPS | 1 | Suitable for land and marine survey | |
| Fugro Seastar, DGPS | 1 | ||
| Acoustic release | EdgeTech CART release | 2 | Rated to 1000 m depth, dual frame for two ARs, 750 kg load on each. |
| CART control unit | 1 | AMD200R Acoustic Command Transmitter plus hydrophone. | |
| Waves, currents and tides | Valeport 740 tide guage | 1 | Pressure sensor based, portable battery powered tide gauge. Weatherproof surface logger and 20 m transducer cable, 10 m sensor depth range. |
| RDI 300 kHz ADCP | 1 | Workhorse model WHS300, 165 m profiling range. | |
| Sontek 250 kHz ADP | 1 | 250 kHz current profiler, 120 m profiling range, complete with 160 kg buoyancy frame for nearbed deployment with AR. | |
| RDI 1200 khz ADCP | 1 | Workhorse model, 24 m profiling range | |
| Sontek 1500 kHz ADP | 1 | 25 m profiling range | |
| Sontek 3000 kHz ADP | 1 | XR Argonaut model, 6 m profiling range | |
| Sontek Triton ADV | 1 | Measures waves and currents – point source | |
| Nobska MAVS3 acoustic current meter | 1 | Measures currents – point source | |
| FSI 3D-ACM WAVE acoustic current meter | 2 | Measures waves and currents – point source | |
| Interocean S4 ADW EM current meter | 4 | Measures waves and currents – point source | |
| Interocean S4 A EM current meter | 1 | Measures currents – point source | |
| Dobie wave and tide meter | 5 | Logging pressures data – with burst control | |
| 1 RBR 2050 Wave & Tide gauge | 2 | Logging pressures data – with burst control | |
| Datasonic Acoustic beacons | 4 | Subsurface locator beacon | |
| Miscellaneous | Sediment samplers | 3 | Van Veen, Shipek and Smith McIntyre types |
| Phantom 300 ROV | 1 | Lightweight inspection class remote operated vehicle – 100 m umbilical | |
| SBE 19 Seabird CTD | 1 | ||
| Yeo Kal Turbidity | 1 | ||
| Yeo Kal Salinity/Temp. | 1 |