The plan
Eight missions, one base
Pick a point on the chart or a line in the list. Every mission leaves from Cagliari and comes back when its sea days are done.
Example mission, not yet flown
Missions
One fleet, three kinds of customer
The hull does not change. The payload, the area and the people who read the data do.
Three lines
Choose your line
Each line has its own page, its own payload and its own example mission.
Environment
Public bodies and the environment
Water quality, protected areas, seagrass, illegal fishing. Weeks of presence where a survey vessel comes once a year.
- Regions
- Marine protected areas
- Port authorities
- Research
Defence
Defence
Persistent acoustic surveillance from a platform nobody hears. Contacts, tracks and alerts to the command that owns the picture.
- Navies
- Coast guards
- Defence primes
Energy
Energy
Platforms, pipelines and future wind sites watched from the water, with the seabed profile underneath.
- Oil and gas
- Offshore wind
- Subsea operators
Where
Eight example missions from one base
Every mission leaves from Cagliari and is sized in sea days. None has been flown yet: the first hulls are in build. Pick a line to see what it would look like.
Base
Environment
Pelagos cetacean census
Ligurian Sea, Pelagos Sanctuary
Three months of passive listening along the sanctuary, with detections geolocated in near real time.
Example mission, not yet flown
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Bonifacio strait watch
Strait of Bonifacio
Traffic, water quality and noise in the strait between Sardinia and Corsica, for two months.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineEnvironment
Capo Carbonara posidonia
Gulf of Cagliari
Six weeks over the seagrass meadows of the marine protected area, mapping their edge and the water above them.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineDefence
Sicily Channel awareness
Strait of Sicily
Four months on station in the busiest strait of the basin, listening and reporting every contact.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineDefence
Ionian acoustic picket
Gulf of Taranto
Five months of quiet listening off the Ionian coast, as a line of three drones.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineEnergy
Adriatic platform survey
Northern Adriatic, off Ravenna
Forty days around the gas platforms and along the pipelines that join them.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineEnergy
Oristano wind site survey
West of Sardinia
A hundred days of wind, wave and current data at a floating wind site, before anyone builds anything.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this lineEnergy
Malta seabed survey
South of Malta
Seventy-five days of hydrographic survey lines over a licence block.
Example mission, not yet flown
About this line- Pelagos cetacean censusLigurian Sea, Pelagos Sanctuary90 days
- Bonifacio strait watchStrait of Bonifacio60 days
- Capo Carbonara posidoniaGulf of Cagliari45 days
- Sicily Channel awarenessStrait of Sicily120 days
- Ionian acoustic picketGulf of Taranto150 days
- Adriatic platform surveyNorthern Adriatic, off Ravenna40 days
- Oristano wind site surveyWest of Sardinia100 days
- Malta seabed surveySouth of Malta75 days
Missions are examples of what the fleet is designed to do. Places are real, the missions are not yet flown.
Any line
What every mission has in common
The customer changes, the four steps do not.
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01
Brief
Area, duration, what you need to know. We answer with a payload, a number of hulls and a start date.
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02
Launch
By crane from a quay near the area or from Cagliari. A hull is at sea within a day of leaving the truck.
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03
Watch
The control room plans, monitors and re-routes. You see the same picture, on your screen, with your credentials.
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04
Deliver
Data streams during the mission and lands as a dataset at the end, in your format and on your infrastructure if you want it there.
Questions
Before you choose a line
Can one mission serve two customers?
Yes, and it often should. A hull listening for a navy also records the noise map a protected area needs. The data is split by contract, not by hull.
How many drones does a mission take?
One for a point, three for a line, more for an area. The brief decides. Most example missions here run on one to three hulls.
Where can the fleet operate?
The central and western Mediterranean from Cagliari, with a road move for the Adriatic. Further afield is a question of logistics, not of the vessel.
How far ahead do we book?
A season ahead for a long mission, a month for a short one. Sea days are a fleet resource and the first season is short.
Next step
Start from the data you need
Tell us what you need to know and where. We come back with the line, the payload and the sea days.