Survey & Inspection
McLachlan Marine have a wealth of experience with inshore, pipeline, cable lay multibeam surveys, we work closely with local survey rental and survey companies so can provide a turn key option if required for dredging support, cable lay surveys, windfarm surveys and UXO survey.

Our Survey Vessel Ocean Surveyor is newly refurbished internally with large lounge area, 12 passenger seating area, 3 survey work stations, new state of the art moon pool survey pole system, A-frame, dive ladder and 4 point mooring option.

​We are always happy to team up with our clients chosen surveyors and can offer a variety of vessels on single day rates to complement the job.

Survey & Inspection Services

• Side Scan / Magnetometer
• Grab Sampling
• Commercial Dive Team
• ROV VideoRay Inspection
• Drone Aerial Inspection

Hydrographic & Geophysical

• Multibeam Bathymetric
• Side Scan Sonar
• Magnetometer
• Sub bottom Profiler
• Dive Teams
• Grab Sampling / Corers

Recent Projects

ROV Outfall Location Inspection
We undertook the challenging inspection of an area to the South of Aberdeen, the client was looking to obtain tide range, seabed profile and check for obstructions.

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Location & recovery of lost tidal monitor
We were tasked to locate and recover the tidal monitor that had been damaged by a recent storm and its acoustic release has failed.
We supplied our vessel True North, GPS, Sonar, Dive Team and quayside HIAB Crane
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Side Scan Inspection for lost equipment
Simple inspection to locate lost equipment at Aberdeen Anchorage, equipment located using our vessel True North and Klein Side Scan and Veripos GPS.
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River Flood Damage Survey Support
We were approached by the local authority to provide a solution to give their surveyors safe access to 16 miles of river to inspect the 2014 flood damage.
We had a 5 man team working with small boats, two 4x4s and rescue equipment, additional safe guards were put inplace down stream of each operating area to protect the workforce.