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Our research and development centre is based at our headquarters in Chelmsford, Essex, UK where we have Europe's most capable testing facilities and conduct research on a diverse number of marine engineering challenges. Some of this research is for our own commercial purposes; however we have a number of customers who use our state of the art facilities and highly specialised team, to deliver research projects on discrete areas that they themselves cannot perform.

We also provide marine support for scientific projects, such as VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) and for seismic monitoring by the Korean Meteorological Association (KMA).

  • VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) is a unique sub sea laboratory that provides live data to the ocean research community via the Internet since February 2006. Global Marine Systems Ltd. was selected as the contractor for the project to lay the foundation of the laboratory – 43km of fiber optic cable - off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Global Marine successfully completed its assignment in May 2007 and since then the cable connects two arrays of science instruments through the nodes sitting on the seafloor and transmitting live data 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, 365 days-a-year.


  • The Korean Meteorological Association (KMA) commissioned the installation of a pioneering ‘Ocean Bottom Unit’ (OBU) 20km off the coast of Ulleungdo (an island 135km east of the Korean peninsula) which acts as a “listening device” to detect and monitor high levels of seismic activity. In November 2006, the KMA enlisted the help of KIT valley, providers of seismic monitoring systems, and SpaceTech, project managers of space and terrestrial systems. In turn, it contracted Global Marine to install the OBU 2,000m below sea level along with the essential seismic cable connecting the OBU to the island. The fibre optic cable not only provides power to the OBU, but also transfers the crucial activity measurements back to the island.
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