Subsea Commercial Services, Xeos' Scottish sales representative, was delighted to supply Heriot-Watt University with a range of our asset tracking and recovery beacons for deployment during the iAtlantic research programme. 

The Deep-Sea Ecology and Biogeochemistry Research Team at Heriot-Watt have deployed autonomous seafloor landers to assess the health of the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem. Xeos XMB-11K beacons and XMF-11K LED flashers have been mounted to the landers as a part of the planned recovery which will take place after one year of research on the seafloor. Xeos XMA-11K Agros satellite beacons have also been mounted to prevent against any unplanned surfacing event of the landers. 

Programme co-lead and Head of Deep-Sea Ecology at Heriot-Watt, Professor Andrew K. Sweetman said the following:

"We're delighted to be using Xeos equipment supplied by Subsea Commercial Services  that will aid in the recovery of our lander platforms. The Deep-Sea Ecology and Biogeochemistry research group at Lyell Centre operate the largest and most advanced lander fleet in the UK and getting equipment back from deep sea is a key objective to us during each expedition. We currently have 13 deep-sea expeditions scheduled over the next 5 years and continue to use Xeos systems that we've always found reliable, lightweight and more than capable of coping with the day-to-day stresses that we put on these systems." 

Feel free to check out the Subsea UK Magazine for yourself, we’re located on page 38! Subsea UK February 2021