Benthic Solutions Limited (BSL) is an independent marine environmental consultancy and survey company offering a broad range of capabilities in survey, analysis, interpretation and project management for the marine sector.
We have extensive global experience and capabilities and are renowned for our progressive and innovative approach to challenging projects and market requirements.
BSL can offer both general and bespoke survey services in environmental data acquisition, analysis and interpretation. We have extensive capabilities in multi-disciplinary projects including habitat mapping using acoustic data, ground truthing using sampling and photography and subsequent interpretation and presentation. BSL provides support directly to operators as well as to consultancies and survey contractors alike.
BSL's senior consultant has over 25 years of multifaceted commercial survey experience in the marine sector. We also have a large team of field scientists who possess considerable experience in both shallow and deep water survey operations worldwide. This includes the execution and interpretation of hundreds of projects for the Oil and Gas industry, governments, utilities, engineering companies and other marine developers. BSL's team is experienced in all the services provided and has a broad range of field sampling tools, owned and operated by the company.
BSL can provide quality assurance on all protocols, data and reports. The following certifications support our Quality Policy:
We are certified to ISO 9001 for the provision of scientific marine survey and associated consultancy, and are audited annually by Citation International plc.
BSL participates in the NMBAQC quality assurance scheme for macro-invertebrate and particle size analysis, whilst our supporting laboratories provide certified testing (typically to the United Kingdom Accreditation Scheme UKAS) on routine low level marine sediments and waters following regulatory standards in Europe (typically UK DECC, OSPAR etc.).
In addition, we are also ISO 14001 certified in recognition of our Environmental Management System (EMS).
