Silvercrest Submarines

Silvercrest Submarines is a UK sales and charter company dealing in submarines, submersibles and remotely operated vehicles, describing itself as the UK's premier submarine, submersibles and ROV sales and charter company with contracts performed worldwide. The business acts as a supplier and broker rather than a survey or inspection contractor. It offers a wide range of new and secondhand submarines, tourist submarines, T-subs, submersibles and ROVs, together with subsea equipment and submarine support services, and it makes all of these available for hire, charter and sale. The same stock can be chartered, leased, hired, bought or sold, so a customer can take a vessel for a single project or acquire one outright, and the company invites enquiries about requirements big or small. Its stated customers are individuals, dive operators and organisations, and the applications it lists cover a broad spread of underwater work. Underwater filming sits alongside TV advertising and promotions, pointing at media and production clients hiring craft for camera work. Underwater tourism and leisure, and tourist submarines specifically, cover passenger-carrying operations. Search and salvage and deep sea operations cover commercial recovery work at depth. Scientific research covers institutional users needing a manned platform. Submarine rescue is listed with the DSRV designation, indicating deep submergence rescue vehicles. Because the company deals in both new and used craft, and in equipment as well as complete vessels, it positions itself on price, saying its offering is available at prices everyone can afford, and on availability, inviting contact at any time of day or night to discuss submarine chartering, leasing, hiring, buying and selling. It also takes on an advisory role, encouraging prospective customers to call for a friendly chat about a proposed underwater project or idea so that the company can offer suggestions and advice, which suits buyers who are not certain whether a submersible, a full submarine or an ROV is the right tool for the job in front of them. Contact is handled through a European office in England, with a UK telephone number and a sales email address given as the points of contact. The company's own summary of its scope is that it can provide the solution to all submarine and submersible requirements, big or small, and the breadth it claims runs from small ROVs and subsea equipment, through submersibles and T-subs, up to full-size submarines and purpose-built tourist submarines, supported by submarine support services for operators who need help around the vessel itself.