The Aquatec Group

The Aquatec Group are creators of innovative instruments, services and solutions for measurement, monitoring and communication underwater. They provide instrumentation solutions for all water environments, including offshore structures and pipelines; oceans, estuaries, rivers and lakes; and marine mammals and fisheries.

History

Aquatec was founded by the current managing director in 1990 as a specialist consultancy in oceanographic instrumentation design. Since then, the company has established a diverse portfolio of products for measurement of physical oceanographic and process parameters including temperature, depth, vibration, attitude, suspended sediment, and marine mammal activity, as well as underwater data communication systems and marine mammal deterrents.

Expertise

Aquatec Group employs highly qualified engineering personnel with extensive expertise in oceanographic and offshore applications. In-house expertise includes:

• Oceanographic instrumentation
• Low power data loggers
• Digital signal processing
• Temperature and pressure measurement
• Underwater optical instrumentation
• Suspended sediment acoustic characteristics
• High frequency acoustics
• Underwater sound propagation
• Underwater acoustic communication
• Marine mammal acoustics
• Cathodic protection

Facilities

Aquatec uses sophisticated computer-based design and leading-edge software development tools throughout all phases of the design process, thus ensuring a rapid and flexible response to customer demands.
A fully equipped electronics laboratory provides all the necessary facilities for instrument development, assembly, calibration and test, while strict sub-vendor quality control ensures a consistent high quality for production component manufacture.

Support

Our fully trained team provides technical support for installation, commissioning, training, and trials in the laboratory, construction yard, on the dockside, at sea or offshore. With extensive experience in oceanographic, acoustic, sonar and acoustic communications, our engineering staff can assist with all your related instrumentation needs.

Research

The Aquatec Group maintains strong links with universities and research institutions around the world, and is a prominent partner in collaborative research, complementing its internal, market-led product research and development programme.