78 m
Length
16 m
Beam
8,000 nm
Range
42
Crew
The Meridian-Class Explorer extends humanity’s sight into the deep. Bathymetric mapping arrays, a moon-pool submersible bay, and a swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles let a single vessel survey thousands of square kilometers of seafloor per expedition — every data point streamed openly to the planetary digital twin.
Capabilities
Deep-ocean bathymetric mapping
Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) fleet
Manned submersible launch & recovery
eDNA and acoustic biodiversity sampling
Specifications
- Hull
- Basalt-fiber composite
- Propulsion
- Hybrid electric + green hydrogen
- Displacement
- 3,200 t
- Region
- Mariana Sector
- Submersibles
- 2 x 6,000m rated
- AUV Bay
- 8 autonomous units
- Sensor Suite
- Multibeam sonar + LiDAR
- Endurance
- 45 days
