INNOVATING REMOTE SHIP HULL INSPECTIONS WITH DRONES

An increased demand for remote solutions drives game-changing research and development of ScoutDI’s Scout 137 Drone System. Caused by or at least aggravated by, the Covid-19 pandemic, the maritime and offshore world has seen a surge in the need for remote inspection. Fewer hands on deck, increased work pressure and tight work schedules puts seafarer safety at risk and may jeopardise proactive inspection and maintenance work in the maritime industries. Current maritime and offshore inspection regimes are periodic and, as such, may occur more frequently than strictly necessary. That’s for the safety of people, property, and the environment. Better to inspect too soon than too late. But moving away from manual, periodic inspection regimes to more flexible risk-based processes may have huge advantages. Both inspection crews and asset owners can benefit from increased safety, lower cost, improved efficiency, better data coverage and quality. To achieve this, robotics is the way to go. Specifically, indoor inspection drones of the flying kind. INNOVATING WITH ROBOTICS Drone-based inspections enable safer, more flexible, yet consistent and standardised, inspection processes. It...