Blueprint Subsea
Designs and builds underwater acoustic and imaging products, including sonar systems used for side-scan applications.
Blueprint Subsea designs and manufactures compact underwater acoustic products for the global subsea, offshore, commercial diving and defence markets. Its core business centres on imaging sonars, acoustic positioning beacons and diver navigation systems, a range of robust and intuitive products developed to meet demanding operating conditions. The company designs its products in-house and uses advanced manufacturing techniques, developing systems without compromise. Those offerings suit applications that take in survey work, inspection, navigation, real-time tracking and covert underwater operations. The product scope spans several categories. In sonar, Blueprint Subsea provides sidescan sonars and multibeam imaging sonars for underwater imaging and survey tasks. In positioning and data, it offers acoustic positioning systems for tracking ROVs, AUVs and divers, with the ability to exchange data with multiple assets rather than track a single target at a time. In diver navigation, it supplies handheld systems that combine navigation, sonar imaging and acoustic communication in a compact form factor, putting several functions into one unit a diver can carry. Its products serve a broad set of users across the subsea community, the offshore industry and the defence sector, among them special operations and emergency response users. The company distinguishes itself through compact, rugged products, in-house design, and a focus on affordability held alongside quality and technical performance. Its range covers multiple platform sizes and mission types, from small inspection-class vehicles to larger work-class platforms, and from shallow-water survey through to deeper-water operations. Taken as a whole, the business amounts to that of an underwater acoustics specialist offering integrated sensing, positioning and navigation solutions across civilian and defence marine environments, where the same core acoustic technology serves a survey contractor, a diving team and a naval user alike. Its imaging sonars, positioning beacons and diver navigation systems share that compact, rugged design approach, which lets the products go onto small vehicles or into a diver's hands without a change of underlying technology.