May 27, 2021
The newly created rental and services company WAMS has announced that it has added iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) to its pool of equipment. Available for WAMS customers in Brazil, the DriX USV will increase operational performance for shallow-water hydrographic and geophysical surveys, LBL array box-in operations and ROV/AUV tracking for deepwater projects.
“We are fully confident that the marine data collection and subsea operations industries are undergoing a profound change due to the rising technologies of USVs and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs),” explained Elijah Egorov, survey operations supervisor at WAMS. “Always staying informed about the latest high-tech developments, we were fast to recognize iXblue DriX as a versatile and force-multiplying autonomous platform that will allow WAMS to perform bathymetric surveys up to ten times faster than traditional vessels and survey launches when using multiple DriX. iXblue USV will furth