Hydromea and SepcoTech Partner to Expand EXRAY Inspection Robotics in Scandinavia

Hydromea and SepcoTech A/S have entered into a commercial partnership for Scandinavia. Under the agreement, SepcoTech will represent Hydromea's EXRAY™ subsea inspection system across the region, initially focusing on naval, defense, maritime, and offshore applications.

(Image credit: Hydromea)
(Image credit: Hydromea)

EXRAY™ is designed to inspect submerged and enclosed areas that are difficult, costly, or unsafe to access with divers or conventional tethered remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)—such as ballast tanks, internal structures, and other flooded confined spaces aboard naval vessels and maritime assets.

The system combines two coordinated vehicles: a tethered “mothership” ROV, which operates in open or turbid water for traditional missions, and a compact wireless flyout vehicle that is teleoperated through a unique high-speed communications relay. Deployed from the mothership, the flyout vehicle can enter confined spaces without a tether that could snag or become entangled, while transmitting HD video to the same operator. This enables inspection continuity from open water into complex internal structures without sending personnel into the asset and without investing in additional ROVs.

For defense applications, Hydromea can configure EXRAY™ to meet specific naval data-handling and security requirements, including operation without onboard recording, controlled data routing, and customized security architectures. These capabilities support defense operators seeking to modernize inspection workflows while retaining control over sensitive operational data.

“Partnering with SepcoTech gives Hydromea a strong, highly relevant route to market in Scandinavia,” said Alexander Bahr, Co-Founder and COO of Hydromea. “Their experience serving defense and maritime customers makes them an ideal partner for bringing EXRAY™’s unique confined-space inspection capability to naval operators and other critical-asset owners.”

“Many essential inspections must be performed in places where deploying a diver—or even a conventional tethered ROV—is impractical,” said Peter Krogh, CEO of SepcoTech. “EXRAY™ addresses precisely this challenge. Its mothership-and-wireless-flyout architecture allows operators to inspect enclosed flooded spaces safely and efficiently, while its configurable data-handling approach makes it especially relevant for naval customers.”

The partnership supports the deployment of a new inspection capability for asset owners seeking to reduce personnel exposure, avoid unnecessary dry-docking, and improve the speed and quality of subsea inspection data collection.

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