Alarivean Send a situation report
An instrumented monitoring buoy riding a light swell in open water

Tell us about your water.

Four things get us to a useful answer: the water body, what goes wrong, when it goes wrong, and what it costs when it does.

Before you write

What a good situation report looks like.

It is not a specification. Two paragraphs from someone who knows the water beats a formal brief from someone who does not.

If you would rather send it as an email with an attachment, write to us instead and say the same things — the form is a convenience, not a gate.

Where it is, roughly how big, and what it is used for. A bay, an intake approach, a lagoon, a reservoir, a stretch of shoreline.

Blooms, oxygen crashes, fish kills, fouled intakes, closed beaches, odour, discoloured water. Whatever you would say to a colleague.

The weeks or months your exposure actually sits in. For most coastal assets it is a season, not a year.

Lost harvest, throttled plant, cancelled bookings, remediation spend, membrane replacement brought forward, staff time. An order of magnitude is enough.

What you have already tried, what data you hold, who else is involved, what your deadline is.

We use what you send to answer you. It is not added to a marketing list and it is not passed to anyone outside the programme team.

What follows

Four stages, and you can stop after any of them.

  1. This form Ten minutes, no data pack, no commitment. The only stage that asks nothing of you.
  2. The site read We come back with what the available evidence says about that water, whether this platform suits it, and where the uncertainty sits. Sometimes the useful answer is that your problem belongs to a different trade, and you will get that answer too.
  3. The calibration phase A bounded demonstration area on your own water with viability parameters agreed in writing beforehand. This is where a claim becomes a measurement, and where a negative result is a legitimate outcome rather than an argument.
  4. The service zone Contracted capacity for the season, gases and augments included, with local scientific oversight holding the same live data the crew reads.

Questions we get first

Before you send it

What happens after I send this?

A person who has read water like yours replies. Not an autoresponder, and not a salesperson working from a template.

If the answer is that this is the wrong instrument for your problem, that is what you will be told. We would rather lose an enquiry than spend a season proving the point on your budget.

What if I do not have the data yet?

Send it anyway. Depth profiles and water-quality history help enormously, but the description matters more than the dataset.

If the only thing you know is that the bay goes bad in August and the hotels complain, that is a real starting point and we can work from it.

Are you going to try to sell me a boat?

No. Alarivean does not sell vessels or systems — those are licensed from Credible Ventures and stay with us. What you would contract is capacity held in your water for your season.

Who sees what I send?

The programme team who will answer it. It does not go to a marketing list, a CRM sequence or a third party. If a site read leads anywhere, the oversight arrangements are set out in writing before anything goes in the water.