Freedom Diving Systems offers remotely operated vehicle services for underwater inspection, survey and scientific support, with the company stating a working depth boundary of up to 600 feet from its Gibsons operation.
Operating context
Freedom Diving Systems is a Gibsons-based diving, inspection and marine-response business founded by Kevin Swoboda and Ben Zander. Its ROV service combines HD video, position logging, low-visibility sonar search, sampling and rigging support before or alongside diver intervention. The dedicated technical page states a 500-foot inspection limit, while its About page states600feet; project qualification should use an explicitly confirmed configuration rather than silently treat either as a universal fleet rating. Federal evidence broadens the dossier beyond inspection: Transport Canada named Freedom as an abandoned-boat programme recipient in 2024, and a small-vessel recycling supply arrangement amended inJune 2026 runs toMarch 2029. The latter records zero value and establishes a procurement route, not booked sales.
Canadian footprint
Freedom Diving Systems identifies Gibsons, British Columbia as its Canadian operating base and presents the business as a commercial underwater-services provider.
Gibsons, British Columbia is the published city-level context for Freedom Diving Systems. It does not imply a street address or exact facility location.
A marine inspection and response contractor with verified federal programme and procurement access, but inconsistent published equipment limits that buyers should resolve.
Interpretation of the public record. Not qualification, endorsement or evidence of buyer interest.
Freedom offers ROV inspection, survey, sampling and rigging support from Gibsons. Its dedicated ROV page specifies operation to 500 feet, while the About page says 600 feet; the working limit requires confirmation for the offered configuration.
Evidence of maturity
A federal small-vessel recycling supply arrangement establishes procurement access through March 2029, not a ROV-specific delivery award or guaranteed work.
Commercial availability
Freedom Diving Systems publicly markets ROV inspection, survey and scientific-support services.
Core features
Dedicated ROV-page limit of 500 feet; About page separately states 600 feet
HD underwater video, GPS position logging and low-visibility sonar search
Water and sediment sampling and manipulation of recovery rigging
Recorded applications
Coastal underwater inspection and survey
Scientific observation and submerged-asset assessment
CanadaBuys records a June 11, 2026 amendment to Freedom's small-vessel recycling supply arrangement, with expiryMarch 27, 2029 and zero recorded value; this is an access instrument rather than an awarded work value.
Freedom Diving Systems offers remotely operated vehicle inspection, survey and scientific-support services to stated depths of 600 feet from coastal British Columbia.
Questions for a first conversation
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What signed depth, payload and lift-capacity specification applies to the exact ROV and salvage equipment offered for the project?
Freedom's dedicated ROV and About pages disagree on500 vs 600feet, and its salvage and About pages disagree on150 vs 1000tons of lift capacity.
Original sources 8 linked records
These records support the organization, its owned capabilities and their reviewed connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
True North Map derives this bounded description from Freedom Diving Systems's official ROV material and the independent operating record.
Supports: Profile · name
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. identifies the operating organization as Freedom Diving Systems.
Supports: Profile · operating context
The Gibsons operator combines commercial diving with compact ROV deployment for visual inspection, survey and scientific work in coastal and inland underwater environments.
Supports: Profile · commercial status
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. supports this commercial status: Freedom Diving Systems offers remotely operated vehicle inspection, survey and scientific-support services to stated depths of 600 feet from coastal British Columbia.
Supports: Profile · primary location.longitude
True North Map uses longitude -123.5037 as the Gibsons city centroid for this map record.
Supports: Profile · organization categories
True North Map applies the commercial company category from Freedom Diving Systems's documented ROV service.
Supports: Profile · canadian footprint
Freedom Diving Systems identifies Gibsons, British Columbia as its Canadian operating base and presents the business as a commercial underwater-services provider.
Supports: Profile · primary location.latitude
True North Map uses latitude 49.4024 as the Gibsons city centroid for this map record.
Supports: Profile · profileData.portfolioScope
The public offer is bounded to ROV inspection, survey and scientific support to 600 feet; vehicle models, sensor specifications and a founding year were not established.
Supports: Profile · website url
https://freedomdivingsystems.com/ is the official public website used by Freedom Diving Systems.
Supports: Profile · entity kind
True North Map classifies Freedom Diving Systems as a company from its documented operating role.
Supports: Profile · primary location.countrycode
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. places Freedom Diving Systems's identified operating location in Canada.
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. provides the public contact route at https://freedomdivingsystems.com/.
Supports: Profile · organization categories
True North Map applies the ocean technology category from Freedom Diving Systems's documented ROV service.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. specifies this feature: Vendor-stated operating depth up to 600 feet
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
True North Map derives the technical tag underwater survey from the cited ROV specification.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · capability type
True North Map classifies the documented service as Commercial observation ROV service.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · name
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. identifies Coastal ROV inspection and survey as an offered capability.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · summary
Freedom Diving Systems offers remotely operated vehicle services for underwater inspection, survey and scientific support, with the company stating a working depth boundary of up to 600 feet from its Gibsons operation.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · commercial availability
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. supports this availability statement: Freedom Diving Systems publicly markets ROV inspection, survey and scientific-support services.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · defence applications
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. identifies this application: Coastal underwater inspection and survey
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
True North Map derives the technical tag observation ROV from the cited ROV specification.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. specifies this feature: Remote underwater video observation for inspection and survey
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map maps this service to the autonomous systems domain from the documented ROV functions.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
True North Map derives the technical tag coastal inspection from the cited ROV specification.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. specifies this feature: Integration with commercial diving and scientific-support work
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · defence applications
Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. identifies this application: Scientific observation and submerged-asset assessment
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
True North Map derives the technical tag 600 foot depth from the cited ROV specification.
Freedom's small-vessel recycling Supply Arrangement was amendedJune11,2026, expiresMarch27,2029 and recordsCAD0.00. It is procurement access, not a revenue-bearing contract. Supplier address675IndustrialWay,Gibsons.
Supports: Profile · current activity
Freedom's small-vessel recycling Supply Arrangement was amendedJune11,2026, expiresMarch27,2029 and recordsCAD0.00. It is procurement access, not a revenue-bearing contract. Supplier address675IndustrialWay,Gibsons.
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Supports: Profile · operating context
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Dedicated salvage page says over150tons lift-bag capacity and names Reliant,RBGreen,Kwatna,LuluIsland salvage examples; this conflicts with About page's over1000tons statement.
Dedicated salvage page says over150tons lift-bag capacity and names Reliant,RBGreen,Kwatna,LuluIsland salvage examples; this conflicts with About page's over1000tons statement.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
Freedom's small-vessel recycling Supply Arrangement was amendedJune11,2026, expiresMarch27,2029 and recordsCAD0.00. It is procurement access, not a revenue-bearing contract. Supplier address675IndustrialWay,Gibsons.
Supports: Profile · executive relevance summary
Source location: executiveRelevanceSummary
Freedom's small-vessel recycling Supply Arrangement was amendedJune11,2026, expiresMarch27,2029 and recordsCAD0.00. It is procurement access, not a revenue-bearing contract. Supplier address675IndustrialWay,Gibsons.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · maturity
Freedom's small-vessel recycling Supply Arrangement was amendedJune11,2026, expiresMarch27,2029 and recordsCAD0.00. It is procurement access, not a revenue-bearing contract. Supplier address675IndustrialWay,Gibsons.
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Profile · executive relevance summary
Source location: executiveRelevanceSummary
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Profile · operating context
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · defence applications
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technicaldomainslugs
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technology readiness level
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · commercial availability
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · defence applications
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · capability type
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · name
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · technical tags
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · summary
Freedom's dedicated ROV page specifies inspection at up to500ft; six propulsion vectors, HD video, GPS position logging, sonar search in low visibility, water/sediment sampling and manipulation of salvage rigging.
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · summary
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · core features
Freedom was founded by Kevin Swoboda and BenZander, provides diving, salvage, environmental response and operates Gibsons Marine Response in HoweSound/Vancouver. About page says600ft ROV visuals and over1000tons lift capacity.
Dedicated salvage page says over150tons lift-bag capacity and names Reliant,RBGreen,Kwatna,LuluIsland salvage examples; this conflicts with About page's over1000tons statement.
Dedicated salvage page says over150tons lift-bag capacity and names Reliant,RBGreen,Kwatna,LuluIsland salvage examples; this conflicts with About page's over1000tons statement.
The public record establishes a concrete offer but does not establish that every vehicle, sensor, depth rating or deployment mode is available for every customer or mission.
True North Map derives this specific first-conversation question from the documented ROV evidence boundary for Freedom Diving Systems.
Supports: Coastal ROV inspection and survey · maturity
CanadaBuys supports the bounded maturity statement: A CanadaBuys contract history independently confirms Freedom Diving Systems Ltd. as a federal supplier but does not identify an ROV-specific deliverable.
TransportCanada listed Freedom among recipients in a January16,2024 announcement of up toCAD1.6million collectively for eight projects involving34vessels; no company-specific allocation stated.
Supports: Profile · operating context
TransportCanada listed Freedom among recipients in a January16,2024 announcement of up toCAD1.6million collectively for eight projects involving34vessels; no company-specific allocation stated.
Association directory identifies Freedom inGibsons with marine inspections, environmental assessments, docks, salvage/disposal and6043663039.
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