Subsea Craft VICTA 2

The Challenge

How do you make a vessel capable of the following:

a) Operating at speed on the surface before;
b) Submerging safely in less than 2 minutes in order to;
c) Deliver a team of embarked divers to conduct operations in high-threat, high-risk environments?

To achieve this, several obstacles need to be overcome:

• High-speed surface operation warrants a powerful conventional marine diesel – but how to submerge it without compromising its operation or the craft’s buoyancy and trim?
• Achieving stable operation in both domains (surface and submerged) with one single set of controls mandates a very complex software solution. So, how to fuse all of this into a single control system?
• Safety is of paramount importance – how to assure this while ensuring reliability, simplicity and operational effectiveness?