OceanWorks’ catalogue describes custom launch-and-recovery and heave-compensation integration alongside cabled observatory nodes and Subsea Instrument Interface Modules. Procurement depends on a specified handling load, vessel interface, certification and support boundary.
Technical detail
Core features
Performance specifications and specialist-subcontractor or in-house engineering routes
Transportable A-frames, folding handling systems, deep-water winches and active/passive compensation
Power/fibre observatory nodes and ROV-recoverable instrument interfaces
Subsea systems
LARS
Submarine rescue
Modular deployment
Underwater intervention
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Subsea equipment deployment and recovery
Cabled environmental and scientific monitoring
Vessel-specific subsea system integration
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Documented engineering catalogue and historical ONC collaboration; current certification is configuration-specific.
Commercial availability
Custom configuration enquiries through OceanWorks; delivery schedule and supported asset scope require confirmation.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Handling equipment and instrument interfaces could support an underwater sensing integration programme. DND’s sensor-integration objective supplies a public need; no acoustic detection performance or specific ASW procurement role is established.
Recoverable nodes and handling systems could support deployment and sustainment of remotely operated sensing assets within broader uncrewed integration priorities; they do not by themselves provide autonomous patrol.
Modular Subsea Systems and Launch-and-Recovery Integration may help teams working on Persistent uncrewed underwater surveillance by contributing to maritime and undersea operations, detection and situational awareness, and autonomous and uncrewed systems.
This is a reviewed public-source assessment. It is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or classified demand.
Original sources 7 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · core features
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · summary
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · capability type
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · core features
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Capability · name
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Underwater ISR
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Underwater ISR
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Underwater ISR
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Underwater ISR
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
OceanWorks describes custom LARS, heave compensation and tether management. It sets specifications and may use specialist subcontractors or perform detailed engineering, manufacture and testing itself. Listed configurations include A-frames, davits, telescoping booms, folding transportable systems, electric deep-water winches and active or passive compensation; certification is project-specific.
OceanWorks describes power/fibre cabled observatories with ROV-connectable nodes, Subsea Instrument Interface Modules and recoverable node elements that can be maintained without stopping other nodes. Near-shore configurations serve 10–50 instruments within 10 km of shore in water shallower than 200 m; larger coastal, regional and buoyed networks are customized. These are catalog configurations, not a current contract or independently measured performance.
Supports: Capability · summary
OceanWorks describes power/fibre cabled observatories with ROV-connectable nodes, Subsea Instrument Interface Modules and recoverable node elements that can be maintained without stopping other nodes. Near-shore configurations serve 10–50 instruments within 10 km of shore in water shallower than 200 m; larger coastal, regional and buoyed networks are customized. These are catalog configurations, not a current contract or independently measured performance.
The cited durable product or government material supports the named capability, its principal features and its existing applications; the containerized ASW fit remains a derived analyst assessment.
Supports: Defence need · Persistent uncrewed underwater surveillance
The cited durable product or government material supports the named capability, its principal features and its existing applications; the containerized ASW fit remains a derived analyst assessment.
Ocean Networks Canada names OceanWorks International in Burnaby and describes subsea technology designed in collaboration with ONC serving international markets. This historical economic-impact narrative establishes a customer-development relationship but does not identify a current purchase order or current OceanWorks revenue.
OceanWorks describes a privately held Burnaby engineering business covering development, fabrication, integration, factory and harbour acceptance and full-depth sea tests. Its quality-management reference is ISO 9001:2008 and does not establish a current certificate.
National Defence identifies surveillance, force protection, logistics, command and control, sensor integration, interoperability, trusted autonomy and persistence in contested and Arctic environments as objectives for the UxS DISH. These are public capability-development priorities, not evidence that the researched supplier is selected, qualified or operationally accepted.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
National Defence identifies surveillance, force protection, logistics, command and control, sensor integration, interoperability, trusted autonomy and persistence in contested and Arctic environments as objectives for the UxS DISH. These are public capability-development priorities, not evidence that the researched supplier is selected, qualified or operationally accepted.
Supports: Defence need · Persistent uncrewed underwater surveillance
The official requirement calls for long-duration uncrewed vehicles that deploy and employ sensors to provide persistent coverage, with initial delivery anticipated in 2035/2036.
Supports: Defence need · Persistent uncrewed underwater surveillance
The project requires persistent sensor coverage in strategic northern, coastal and expeditionary areas and identifies sonar and acoustic systems among the relevant investment capabilities.
