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Mapping the unmappable
24th Jun 2026
Ocean Power Technologies' WAM-V 16 USV, equipped with Sulmara Discovery technology (image: Sulmara/OPT)
Capturing actionable seabed intelligence in environments that defeat conventional survey spreads is forcing a rethink of platform architecture and sensor integration. That was the challenge facing Seaforth Geosurveys while assessing the Arctic seabed for a planned subsea fibre-optic cable installation in Ungava Bay, Canada.
The Nunavik EAUFON-3 project was spearheaded by Sulmara, a global seabed intelligence company, which specialises in capturing and interpreting high-quality offshore subsea data.
Sulmara’s answer was its Discover package, a bespoke technology stack combining a high-resolution