TDI-Brooks has over 25 years of vessel chartering and management experience and currently operates four research vessels on the spot market. These are multi-use vessels suited for a wide variety of oceanographic research duties.
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).
Updates for the Gyre, Proteus, Miss Emma McCall and Brooks McCall can be found below.
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The RV Gyre has arrived in Trinidad & Tobago for an awarded geotechnical program starting beginning of August.
After completion she will have a
follow-on geotechnical program in T&T mid-August. From there, we may transit to Ecuador for a cable route survey project with other projects in play.
Availability in the NSA/Caribbean and/or West Africa region is end-September/October timeframe
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This vessel is well suited for the following applications:
- Seabed Geochemical “Seep-Hunting” (SGE)
- Seabed Heat Flow Surveys (HF)
- Seabed Geotechnical Coring and Measurements
- 2DHR Seismic Multi Channel Geophysical Site Surveys
- Pipeline Damage Assessments and
- Inspection
- Offshore Cable Route Surveys
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The Gyre is outfitted with a Kongsberg EM 302 multibeam (MBES) echosounder capable of high resoluton seabed mapping from 10 meters to more than 8,000 meters. The Gyre has executed numerous offshore Surface Geochemical “Seep Hunting” Exploration (SGE) and Heat Flow programs for the world’s leading petroleum producers.
The Gyre is also capable of performing deepwater geotechnical coring including 20 meter Jumbo Piston cores (JPC), 40 meter CPT-Stinger acquisition. Other capabilities include environmental assessments, metocean, heat flow and environmental baseline studies (EBS).
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The RV Proteus just finished a geotechnical program off Turkey.
We have a number of active geophysical, geotechnical and EBS proposals for offshore Senegal, Ghana, Mauritania, Cameroon, Angola and Nigeria.
Immediate availability from the port of Las Palmas for work in the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, North and West Africa, Northern South America.
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This vessel is well suited for the following applications:
- Seabed Geotechnical Coring and Measurements
- Seabed Geochemical “Seep-Hunting” (SGE)
- Seabed Heat Flow Surveys (HF)
- 2DHR Seismic Multi Channel Geophysical Site Surveys
- Pipeline Damage Assessments and Inspection
- Offshore Cable Route Surveys
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The Proteus is outfitted with TDI-Brooks’ complete geotechnical tool kit including our suite of innovative geotechnical tools for soil sampling and measurement . These include our 0.5 and 1 meter box corers (BC), 6 and 9 meter piston corers (PC), 20 meter jumbo piston corers (JPC), cyclic t-bar instrument (TBAR) and piezocone penetrometers including our 40 meter CPT-Stinger and our 10 meter Gravity CPT tool (gCPT).
The Proteus has a Kongsberg EM-710 (1x1) hull-mounted multibeam (MBES) for surveys to ~2,500m water depth for performing surface geochemical “seep-hunting” (SGE) and seabed heatflow surveys (HF).
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The RV Brooks McCall is currently working on the East Coast until early September.
We then have a number of active proposals for the East Coast and GOM.
Next availability for East Coast programs is September and October for GOM programs, depending on award of follow-on work.
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This vessel is well suited for the following applications:
- Seabed Geotechnical Surveys
- 2DHR Seismic Multi Channel Geophysical Site Surveys
- Shallow Hazard Site Assessment Surveys
- Environmental Baseline Surveys (EBS)
- Seabed Heat Flow Surveys (HF)
- Pipeline Surveys and Inspection
- Platform Siting Feasibility Studies
- Offshore Cable Route Surveys
- Tow Route Clearances
- Export Loading Facilities
- Offshore Wind Farm Assessments
- Government BOEM/NOAA/USCG Surveys
- Academic Research
- Post Hurricane Assessments
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TDI-Brooks has over 25 years of vessel chartering and management experience. The Brooks McCall is a multi-use vessel suited for a wide variety of oceanographic research duties.
The RV Brooks McCall is U.S. registered with its primary market niches in the Gulf of Mexico and US East Coast performing analogue and digital survey and geotechnical coring / CPT acquisition.
Its geotechnical capabilities include 40m CPT-Stinger and Stinger-Sampler, 20m Jumbo Piston Cores, 20-m Neptune 5,000 CPT, vibra coring and box/grab sampling.
The Brooks McCall is equipped with satellite communications (voice, fax, and email), differential GPS, geophysical survey gear and large a-frames with high-speed winches for coring or geotechnical work.
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The RV Miss Emma McCall is currently working on the East Coast until October.
We have a number of active proposals for for the East Coast.
Next availability for East Coast programs is October and November for GOM programs, depending on award of follow-on work.
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This vessel is well suited for the following applications:
- Seabed Geotechnical Coring and Measurements with:
- 0.5 and 1 meter Box Corer
- 6 and 9 meter Piston Cores
- Surface Geochemical Exploration (SGE)
- Seabed Heat Flow Surveys (HF)
- Marine Geophysical Surveys for:
- Seep Hunting / SGE Programs
- 2DHR Seismic Multi Channel Geophysical Site Surveys
- Pipeline Surveys and Inspection
- Post Hurricane Assessments
- Export Loading Facilities
- Platform Siting Feasibility Studies
- Offshore Cable Route Surveys
- Offshore Wind Farm Assessments
- Dredging
- Government BOEM/NOAA/USCG
- Academic Research
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TDI-Brooks has over 25 years of vessel chartering and management experience. The Miss Emma McCall operated by TDI-Brooks on a long term charter available for projects throughout North and South America.
The R/V Miss Emma McCall's primary market niches in the Gulf of Mexico and US East Coast is analogue and digital survey and seabed geotechnical coring acquisition.
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
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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.
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Seabed Acquisition Services |
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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. |
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Seabed Geotechnical
Surveys
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We have developed a suite of geotechnical analytical services
for characterizing offshore geotechnical samples. Our suite of innovative geotechnical tools are for soil sampling and measurement and including box corers (BC), piston corers (PC), gravity corers (GC), jumbo piston corers (JPC), cyclic
t-bar instrument (TBAR), deep-reaching Shelby tube samplers (SPLR), and piezocone penetrometers including our CPT-Stinger and our Gravity CPT tool (gCPT). T
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Marine Geophysical Surveys
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TDI-Brooks acquires, processes and interprets geophysical data collected to assist in understanding seabed ground conditions in support of your offshore Oil & Gas and/or Renewables program.
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.
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Environmental Baseline Surveys
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TDI-Brooks provides marine environmental baseline surveys
(EBS) for coastal, nearshore and offshore projects for the oil & gas sector, offshore wind farm and other renewables programs, cables and pipelines.
Since inception of the EBS concept in the early 1970’s, TDI-Brooks’ scientists have been performing EBSs for clients in the most rigorous regulatory environments. Our scientists have held key roles in the most high profile, prestigious Environmental Impact Assessment projects both in the US and internationally.
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Seabed Geochemical
Seep Hunting
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The TDI-Brooks team features experts in conducting offshore Surface Geochemical “Seep Hunting” Exploration and Heat Flow
programs for the world’s leading petroleum producers.
TDI-Brooks and our partners have been involved for 40 years in the design and execution of numerous global ‘seep hunting’ MBES programs.
Geochemical Seep-hunting campaigns reduce offshore exploration risk and cost.
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Please let us know if you would like to discuss our vessels and services. |
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President, CEO
and Commercial Manager
+1 979-220-3798 Cell
+1 979-693-3446 Office
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Director of Business Development, Sales and Marketing
+1 713-208-1734
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