Saildrone Surveyor

Progressive payload integration, endurance solutions, and advances in satellite communications took Saildrone from proof-of-concept to a proven platform for autonomous bathymetry.

Saildrone USVs are the world’s only unmanned platform to receive classification from ABS—no other USV or UUV has been fully classed by any classification society.

In partnership with Meta, Saildrone successfully completed the first autonomous deep-water cable route survey in the North Atlantic, demonstrating a new standard for offshore mapping.

The data collected will improve maritime navigation and support scientific research, environmental conservation efforts, and marine resource management in the Cayman Islands.

A lighter, leaner design to optimize speed, power, and payload for long-range, long-endurance autonomous ocean mapping and maritime security.

AIP, an important first step to full classification of a new maritime vehicle, was awarded to the Saildrone Voyager and Saildrone Surveyor.

The 65-foot Surveyor is designed for deep ocean mapping and maritime security missions.

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, has mapped more than 13,112 square nautical miles (17,375 square miles) of previously unexplored ocean floor during a months-long survey around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the coast of California.

The Mobile, AL-based shipbuilder will manufacture Saildrone’s 65-foot USV.

Detailed information about the coastal seafloor is essential to predicting destructive hurricane storm surge.

Presented by the Blue Marine Foundation and BOAT International, the Ocean Awards recognize groups and individuals making significant contributions to ocean conservation.

Following this successful proof of concept voyage, Saildrone will build a fleet of Surveyors, manufactured at US shipyards, to map Earth’s oceans in the next 10 years.