Audio publication · Season 1
Technical briefings and expert perspectives on underwater operations, maritime infrastructure, salvage, ROV technology and marine safety.
01Featured
The current editorial pick from the series.
Episode 01 · Civil underwater works
How quay wall and lock structure inspections are planned and executed inside a working port: sectioning the structure, coordinating with terminal traffic and tide, and the documentation that makes the survey repeatable.
02Episodes
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Episode 04 · ROV and inspections · Offshore · Innovation
How the choice between ROV and diver is actually made for a subsea inspection task: depth and current thresholds, coordination with the vessel and asset operator, and where a combined scope is the more efficient answer.
13 min · 09 Jul 2026 · English
Episode 01 · Civil underwater works · Commercial diving · Regional operations
How quay wall and lock structure inspections are planned and executed inside a working port: sectioning the structure, coordinating with terminal traffic and tide, and the documentation that makes the survey repeatable.
12 min · 04 Jun 2026 · English
Episode 02 · Maritime shipping · ROV and inspections · Safety and certification
How an in-water survey is planned and run during a commercial port call: class coordination, inspection scope, safety isolations, and where the method reaches its limits.
11 min · 08 May 2026 · English
Episode 03 · Salvage · Inland shipping · Commercial diving
How an incident response on an inland waterway is run from first notification to close-out: assessment before intervention, coordination with authorities and insurer, and the evidence record the claim depends on.
12 min · 26 Mar 2026 · English
03Series
04Reading
14 May 2026
How survey windows, tidal data and diver access are coordinated so commercial operations continue while a quay structure is inspected.
19 Mar 2026
What an in-water survey can establish during a commercial call, and where a drydock remains unavoidable.
27 Feb 2026
Why the initial underwater assessment determines the cost and risk of everything that follows an incident.
05FAQ
Asset owners, port and terminal operators, shipowners and managers, insurers, engineering consultancies and public waterway authorities who commission underwater works.
No. Episodes are editorial briefings prepared by the group's technical editors, not recorded interviews.
Every published episode is divided into chapters on its episode page. A chapter can be selected to move the audio directly to that point.
English is the source language. Dutch, French and Italian versions are published per episode once the translation has been reviewed.
Yes. Send the subject and the operational context through the contact page and it will be reviewed by the technical editors.
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