C-Innovation’s fleet of Hugin autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV’s) provide customers with the highest resolution imagery and most accurate data available. Our vehicles feature a stable, low noise platform that can operate in depths up to 6000 meters. The fleet comes equipped with the latest and most accurate payload sensors such as Kongsberg HISAS, Side Scan Sonars, Multibeam echo sounders, sub-bottom profilers, still cameras, laser profilers, and a host of environmental sensors. By collecting accurate data from many different sensors simultaneously, we can provide our clients a complete data product from a single mission. Other features include terrain aided navigation, obstacle avoidance, autonomous pipeline tracking, and in-mission supervision. Real-time data transmission allows for monitoring of the vehicle, positioning, and payload sensors and serves as a quality measure to ensure a safe, effective, and accurate survey.
Our AUVs have carried out various mission types including:
- High-resolution high-speed seabed mapping and imaging
- Geophysical site inspection
- Pipeline and subsea structure inspection
- Oceanographic surveys
- Environmental monitoring
- Marine geological surveys
- Search operations



FEATURED SPOTLIGHTS
Cold War Submarine Found Off Coast of Hawaii; Last Seen 62 Years Ago – C-Innovation’s AUV crew played a part in the discovery with the help of third-party explorers who tracked down the submarine 10,944 feet below the ocean’s surface. The Stickleback is the third submarine to be discovered of the four US Navy submarines lost since the end of World War II.
World War II Submarine Found Off Coast of Japan, Ending 75-year Mystery – C-Innovation’s AUV crew played a part in the discovery with the help of third-party explorers who tracked down the submarine 1,400 feet below the ocean’s surface.

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7 days a week; 365 days of the year – anywhere in the world. For 15 years and counting!
KEY PROJECTS
- C-Innovation Plays a Key Role in First Oil at Salamanca for LLOG ExplorationC-Innovation (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has successfully completed a series of light construction campaigns on the Salamanca field in the Gulf of America in partnership with LLOG Exploration and Pinnacle Engineering.
- C-Innovation Completes Successful Decommissioning Project in Gulf of America
- C-Innovation Successfully Completes Stem Clamp Installation on BP’s Mad Dog Spar
- Flowline Hydrate Remediation
