INSIGHTS: Thomas S. Chance, Chief Executive Officer, ASV Global
Thomas Chance founded C & C Technologies in his home in 1992. Today C & C is a global oil field surveying and mapping company with more than 550 employees in ten offices worldwide. C & C was the first company in the world to offer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey services to the oil industry and remains a world leader in the field. In April of 2015, he sold C & C Technologies to Oceaneering International. Complementing the autonomous underwater vehicle business, Mr. Chance started Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Ltd., or ASV, in 2010. ASV has 140 employees, four offices across the globe and has built more than 100 state-of-the-art unmanned boats for the defense and commercial sectors.
Partners Eye Autonomous Vessel Technology for UK Ports
Peel Ports Group and ASV Global (ASV) have launched a partnership which will develop the use of autonomous vessel technology for U.K. port operations.The partnership kick-started with a visit from ASV’s team to the Port of Liverpool, to demonstrate the C-Cat-3, an autonomous vessel ideal for shallow survey operations.The C-Cat 3 operated in Brocklebank Dock carrying out seabed survey using a Norbit iWBMS multibeam echo sounder.The successful demonstration has led Peel Ports Group…
First 100% Battery Powered Air Supported Vessel Launched
The result of a five-year-long EU project, the world’s fastest Air Supported Vessel (ASV), fully powered by lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS), has been launched at Latitude Yachts in Riga, Latvia. The new first of its kind vessel BB Green operates at a speed of 30 knots (56km/h) and holds up to 70 passengers plus bikes. It will initially be used for demonstration purposes across Europe. The ASV technology reduces water resistance by having the ship operate on an air cushion.
Alnmaritec in Air Supported Vessel Tie Up
Alnmaritec announced that it has recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Norwegian Company Effect Ships International (ESI) to exploit the technological and market opportunities related to the commercial application of ESI’s patented Air Supported Vessel (ASV) technology. The agreement gives Alnmaritec the rights in the U.K. to the manufacture and sales of vessels utilizing this technology with the possibility to market and sell these vessels worldwide and provides…
Marine Design: Air Supported Vessels Impress
Effect Ships International AS (ESI) is reporting extraordinary results from tank testing of two Air Supported Vessel (ASV) hull forms, a catamaran- and a mono candidate. A reduction in hull resistance of up to 50%; or more than 40% net powering cut, after deduction of fan powering, has been documented with the ASV mono concept. Lately, air assisted hulls forms have gained increasingly more interest from the maritime sector. In December 2011, Marine Link, presented results from Marin on air lubrication techniques…
Air Supported Monohull with Pod Propulsion
Effect Ships International AS, Sandefjord, Norway has just launched their first Air Supported Vessel (ASV) monohull with pod propulsion. The patented ASV technology is the result of more than eight years of R&D, resulting in a full scale 65.6 ft x 17.7 ft test-vessel for demonstration and proof of concept. Up to 80% of the vessel’s operational weight is supported on a cushion of pressurized air. Wetted surface area and friction between hull and water is reduced significantly.
