The Underwater Centre Limited (Inverness)
Company Profile
The Underwater Centre provides specialist training for ROV pilot technicians, commercial divers and associated support staff at its purpose built and extensive facilities in Fort William. The Centre's facilities include a 500m-long pier which incorporates multiple ROV and dive stations, mechanical and electrical workshops, welding bays and a hyperbaric chamber; a number of barges and vessels - one of which is fitted with a Triton XL work class ROV - alongside various dive stations, to depths of greater than 100m; as well as a 1.5M litre indoor seawater tank.
In addition to being an ideal environment in which to train, the location and facilitites at The Underwater Centre make it the ideal location for subsea trials and testing, provding real-life conditions at a fraction of the cost, and operational consideration , of going offshore. Recent trials carried out have been for sectors such as fibre-optic cable laying through-water communications, renewable, oil and gas, civil nuclear ansd scientific research.