MODULAR, WORK-CLASS SUBS

Submarines

Modular, standardised submarines to optimise exploration

The DEEP Submarine range dramatically increases access to the ocean by enabling deeper exploration.

Launching from Sentinel as their subsea base, operating down to full ocean depth, DEEP submarines give unparalleled reach to research and science.

To achieve standardisation their design is purposefully modular, and every submarine adheres strictly to the DEEP Modularity Architecture.

The cost reduction and scaling that modularity provides means more of us than ever before can experience the capability for uninhibited exploration and discovery that subs afford.

Opening this world of unexplored potential will significantly expand our knowledge, tackle global challenges, promote sustainable practices, and unlock valuable benefits for society.

The Primacy of Certification

Every DEEP submarine goes through rigorous third-party certification of its design, construction and testing. It’s an inviolable principle of the DEEP process and, in many ways, the most fundamental.

DEEP works with DNV, the world’s foremost certification body for crewed subsea vehicles. Certification is expensive, complex and time-consuming. As an absolute essential for any pressure vessel designed for human occupancy, it’s a small price indeed.

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DEEP Modularity Architecture

To achieve standardisation, DEEP’s subs designs are purposefully modular, and every submarine adheres strictly to the DEEP Modularity Architecture. Modularity means more of us than ever before can gain first-hand experience of the world’s ocean biomes.

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Reliability & Availability

In exploring the depths of the ocean, science, research and academia have, until now, lacked one fundamental resource: time. The modern sub requires a step-change in reliability. It’s why DEEP’s Modularity Architecture comprises the most comprehensively tested and proven components to minimise the amount of time DEEP submarines need to spend out of the water – and maximise the amount of time users spend within in it.

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Supportability

To better support its users, DEEP submarine components are modular in design, intuitive to use, and easy to install. Parts can be rapidly despatched and easily fitted by crew members with traditional marine engineering skills. DEEP Submarines can continue the task at hand without unnecessary interruption.

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Scalability

The DEEP Submarine range has been conceived and designed with full ocean depth in mind. Component production can easily scale from meeting the needs of the relative shallows right down to full ocean depth, without the time and financial penalties that would conventionally come with the requisite redesign and re-engineering.

Agility

Through applied Advanced Manufacturing, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing capability, and generative and modular design, DEEP can go from spec to sub in a much shorter time than conventional production. Cost-effective and time-efficient, an abundance of Quality Assured, commonly used parts at DEEP Campus and at strategic locations around the world, means spares are en route before the old part has even come out.

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Reconfigurability

As mission requirements change or evolve, the DEEP Modularity Architecture makes reconfiguration quick and easy. This might mean adding a camera and lighting rigs for documentary filmmaking, or up-rating thrusters for a high-current environment. Crucially, all of these parts are modular (in both hardware and software) and updates can be performed by anyone with a standard marine engineering skillset.

DEEP’s Submarine Range

REVEALED SOON

The beauty of the DEEP modularity architecture, of course, is the ability to design virtually every conceivable submarine without having to design a new Class of submersible.

DEEP is working on a range of pre-configured submarines and will announce these in the coming months.

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Ownership Options

Key to opening access to the oceans is the provision of innovative ownership options.

Direct Purchase

DEEP offers traditional procurement routes for customers purchasing outright or on credit.

Fractional Ownership

Multiple owners or individuals will be able to purchase a submarine and own a portion of the submarine and its availability. DEEP will maintain the submarine, assuring its usability.

Lease

DEEP will offer a leasing service, allowing individuals and institutions the option of utilising a submarine for a fixed period of time, with all maintenance, spares and operational resource provided by DEEP.

Third-party Subs + Sentinel integration

DEEP’s intention is to open up the architecture of Sentinel to reputable manufacturers of third-party certified submarines and submersibles.

With Made for Sentinel status, manufacturers will receive access to technical drawings, engineering resource, parts and components that will help ensure their products interface with Sentinel while offering users the assurance of aligned technical and safety standards.

Accredited submersibles and submarines will be able to deploy and recover personnel from the Sentinel, at either one atmosphere or ambient pressure.

Ideally, they would do so while minimising the use of environmentally- and financially-costly Dive Support Vessels.

“The extraordinary commitment to innovation and a drive to explore new possibilities is unrivalled. DEEP has the potential to make advancements in manned-submersible technology at a rate that should be truly exciting to anyone in the industry.”

jOHN RAMSAY

FOUNDER, DARK OCEAN

Dark ocean

DEEP Submarines use cases

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Marine Researchers & Scientists

Individuals and organisations that require access to subsurface environments and related data.

Media Professionals

Individuals who create photographic, editorial, video content for underwater productions.

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Green Energy Professionals

Professionals in the oil & gas and offshore energy industries interested in renewable technology and decarbonisation.

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DEEP Expeditions-owned Subs

DEEP Expeditions currently own and operate two Triton 3300/3 submersibles. We use them to test and develop equipment, train sub operators of the future and, where interests align, provision them – with personnel – in support of partner missions.

DEEP Expeditions

“Having experienced the gift of time under water, the immense benefits that come with getting to know individual animals, to watch behaviour more-or-less continuously day and night gave us insights that brief diving excursions could not replicate.”