Subsea Activities insured

The recent growth in subsea activity in the world’s oceans and waterways falls broadly into the following categories:

• Surveys of the water column, seafloor and strata below the seabed by use of towed or static equipment.
• Construction, operation and maintenance of subsea installations using equipment that can be manned or unmanned, autonomous or remotely operated.
• Recreational or scientific activity using manned vehicles or data recording devices.
• Generation of renewable energy by way of tide or wave machines.​

The range of equipment and vessels now at work in the subsea environment is considerable with markets available for both the subsea and surface elements, whilst:

• Being deployed and recovered
• Operating
• On board vessels or rigs
• In transit to and from operations, by road, rail, air or sea
• At home base
• During maintenance
• In storage

London market providing seamless and comprehensive insurance cover on the following subsea aspects:

• Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), work class, survey class
• Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
• Hybrids
• Trenchers
• Ploughs
• Diamond mining tools
• Oceanographic survey equipment – buoys, towed sonars, cameras, sampling units
• Remote and autonomous surface survey vehicles
• Developmental vehicles – manned and unmanned
• Seismic streamers – towed, including sources
• Ocean bottom seismic equipment
• Diving equipment – suits, hats, umbilicals, SCUBA, diving bells, saturation environments, one atmosphere diving suits (commercial contractor operations and professional expeditions only)
• Diving contractors’ equipment – hydraulic tools, welding equipment
• Renewable offshore power generation equipment – wave and tidal
• Manned submersibles – private, tourist, research, intervention
• Underwater viewing environments
• Hulls associated with the deployment and support of the above equipment, for example diving support vessels and survey vessels