Vessel Availability
TDI-Brooks is a scientific data acquisition services company specializing in multi-disciplinary oceanographic projects covering; environmental baseline surveys, geochemical “seep hunting” exploration and heat flow for oil and gas, offshore survey projects including seabed geotechnical, cable route and wind farm, metocean, multi-disciplinary oceanographic and high-end environmental chemistry, renewables and marine sciences.
TDI-Brooks has over 25 years of vessel chartering and management experience and currently operates four research vessels, R/V Gyre, R/V Proteus, R/V Miss Emma McCall and the R/V Brooks McCall.

These are multi-use vessels suited for a wide variety of oceanographic research duties. Updates for each are provided below.
R/V Brooks McCall &
R/V Miss Emma McCall
The Miss Emma McCall is equipped to acquire geophysical surveys for offshore hazard/site clearance assessments, pipeline/cable routing, seafloor mapping, port and channel conditions, fisheries habitat mapping and burial assessment studies.

The Miss Emma McCall is also well suited to perform geotechnical sediment and seabed coring/CPT for wind farm and LNG port facilities, pre/post excavation dredging.
The Brooks McCall’s primary market niche in the Gulf / US East Coast is geotechnical coring including 20-m JPC and 40-m CPT-Stinger acquisition including the ability to take Shelby tube samples to 40-m with our CPT-Sampler.

The Brooks McCall is available for pipeline hazard, cable route surveys, debris mapping, P-Cable, MBES, metocean, sand search, and environmental studies.
Both vessels have a full analog survey kit onboard as follows:

  • Norbit Winghead Multibeam (dual head) with QPS QINSy 9
  • Edgetech 4205 SSS with Discover and QPS QINSy 9
  • Geometrics G882 configured in TVG with MagLog and QPS QINSy 9
  • INNOMAR SES2000 SBP with SEISWIN
  • Applanix POS MV with Norbit MBES interface
  • Sonardyne Mini-Ranger 2
  • Xylem Castaway CTD
  • Single-Channel boomer with SonarWiz 
Availability on the East Coast - end of August
Availability in GOM - beginning of September
The TDI-Brooks fleet is operated within a robust Safety Management System and all vessels are regularly vetted by client marine assurance groups and a part of the OCIMF Offshore Vessel Inspection Database (OVID).
R/V Proteus
The RV Proteus is currently located at Tema, Ghana awaiting award of two geotechnical programs.

We have a number of active proposals for offshore Senegal, Cameroon and/or she will head over to the Caribbean for work off T&T, Guyana and Suriname.

Immediate availability for work off West Africa, Egypt, Eastern Med and Northern South America.
  • The R/V Proteus is outfitted with TDI-Brooks’ complete geotechnical coring kit including 20m Jumbo Piston Core (JPC), 40m CPT-Stinger/ Shelby Tube Sampler along with our standard SGE/HF and EBS survey gear.

  • The R/V Proteus is also equipped with a gondola that houses a Kongsberg EM-710 (1x1) hull-mounted MBES for surveys to ~2,500m water depth and hull-mounted Edgetech SBP with a 16-transducer (4x4) array.
R/V Gyre
The RV Gyre is currently in transit to the GOM from Colon, Panama for an awarded geotechnical program in Green Canyon.

We plan to have the Gyre in the GOM for follow-on programs until she heads to T&T for an awarded geotechnical program in August/September timeframe.

Availability in the GOM is May timeframe

Operating in the GOM, Northern South America, Caribbean and West Africa regions
  • The R/V Gyre is outfitted with newly installed Kongsberg EM 302/304 MBES mounted on the hull within a gondola which provides suitable data for deep-water geochemical and geotechnical coring, heat flow, metocean and EBS studies.
  • The R/V Gyre is also mobilized with TDI-Brooks’ complete geotechnical coring kit including 20m Jumbo Piston Core (JPC), 40m CPT-Stinger/ Shelby Tube Sampler along with our standard SGE/HF and EBS survey gear.
All of our research vessels are available to charter for oceanographic, research, academic and government operations. Our field services are supplemented by high quality environmental and geotechnical laboratories with a staff of nearly one-hundred individuals including fourteen
Ph.D. level oceanographers, geochemists, biologists and geologists.
Our Services in your Industry
OUR SERVICES
  • Marine Geotechnical Coring Services
  • Portable Geotechnical Tool Kits
  • Seabed Geochemical "Seep-Hunting"
  • Hydrographic/Geophysical Surveys
  • Geohazard Studies
  • Marine Environmental Services
  • Metocean Surveys
  • Wind Farm Seabed Surveys
  • Cable Route Selections and Survey
  • LNG Field / Facilities Development
  • Onsite Environmental, Geochemical and Geotechnical Laboratories 
YOUR INDUSTRY
  • Oil & Gas
  • Offshore Wind
  • Offshore Mining Exploration
  • Telecommunications/Cable Route
  • Coastal / Ports / Channels / Waterways
  • Dredging
  • LNG Facilities
  • Government
  • Habitat Monitoring
  • Academia
  • Vessel Charters
  • Tidal and Wave Studies
Seabed Acquisition Services

Marine Hydrographic Surveys

Offshore geophysical surveying is the systematic data collection and interpretation of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore oil exploration/offshore oil drilling and related activities.

Each TDI-Brooks vessel can be mobilized with a full suite of geophysical survey instruments to safely conduct marine geophysical surveys. In addition to our in house vessel services, we offer portable tool kits which can be shipped globally to any vessel of opportunity.

TDI-Brooks employs an experienced team which includes hydrographers, geophysicists, geologists, oceanographers, mariners, cartographers, and GIS and CADD specialists to produce surveys and deliverables of the highest quality.
Surface Geochemical Exploration

Surface Geochemical “Seep Hunting” Exploration (SGE) is a petroleum prospecting tool based on the premise that upward migrated petroleum from deep source rocks and reservoirs can be detected in near-surface sediments and used to evaluate exploration potential. Deep seismic and multibeam surveys are used to select piston coring locations based on surface expression of deep faults and other features related to conduits for upward migration of hydrocarbons.

The TDI-Brooks team are foremost experts in conducting offshore Surface Geochemical “Seep Hunting” Exploration (SGE) and Heat Flow programs for the world’s leading petroleum producers. We possess a large collection of global SGE and heat flow program data.
Seabed Geotechnical
Surveys

TDI-Brooks International, Inc. offers a comprehensive suite of offshore geotechnical field services, including piston coring, jumbo piston coring, box coring, and the deployment of multiple CPT tools.

Our vessels can also be used to accommodate some third party geotechnical equipment packages.

 In addition to our offshore geotechnical sampling toolkit, TDI-Brooks can provide soil testing services through our in-house geotechnical laboratory.

Our Geotechnical Toolkit provides high-quality soil samples and in-situ data from the following tools:

Box Core, Piston Core, Jumbo Piston Core, Cyclic T-Bar, CPT Stinger, Gravity CPT, Stinger Sampler, Miniature Vane
Marine Environmental Services

Since inception of the EBS concept in the early 1970’s, TDI-Brooks International’s scientists have been performing EBSs for clients in the most rigorous regulatory environments. Decades of experience in refining techniques, working with regulatory agencies, and developing a functional network of specialists/associates provides our clients with an effective and defensible approach to resolving environmental impact issues in the marine environment.

TDI-BI is able to leverage our experience, logistical support, and presence to provide cost effective EBSs conducted under the stringent HSE standards that industry demands, thereby providing our client with timely solutions to environmental concerns backed with the highest scientific and technical credibility.
Please let us know if you would like to discuss our vessels and services.
Jim Brooks
President / CEO
+979-220-3798
Melissa Wood
Director of Sales and Marketing
+713-208-1734