Testing

Non Destructive Testing

Visual inspections

underwater or rope access

  • Digital videos
  • Digital photos
  • Cathode protection checks
  • Dimensions checks (rudder clearance, mooring lines, etc)
  • Testing after damage.

Ultrasonic Testing (U.T.)

underwater or rope access

  • Thickness measurements,
  • Corrosion tests,
  • Weld defects detection...

Magnetic particles testing (M.T.)

underwater or rope access

  • Daylight,
  • UV light.

Alternating current
fiel measurement (A.C.F.M.)

underwater or rope access

  • Crack detection
  • Testing structure

Penetration testing (P.T.)

using rope access

  • Daylight,
  • UV light.

Peint coating cheks

underwater or rope access

  • Measuring coat thickness,
  • Measuring structural thickness,
  • Controlling adherence, porosity,
    hardness, and brightness,
  • Assessing porosity, hardness and brightness, Checking roughness, temperature and dew points

Examples of our test services

Thickness measurements

Thickness measurements

Assisting surveyor when access is difficult for making investigations. Thanks to our partnership with an independent marine surveyor’s office, overall evaluations can be made of a structure’s condition for purchase or repair projects.

L’octant teams carry out tests on offshore platforms above and below water level during the same mission. L’octant technicians are all divers and climbers.

In refineries, l’octant tests are carried out on cables, flares, storages tanks, storages spheres, pipes, etc.

Thickness measurements of hulls or petrochemical structures are carried out under the authority of the companies affiliated with the IACS : Bureau Veritas - Dest Norske Veritas - Lloyd’s Register - American Bureau of Shipping - Germanischer Lloyd… This list is not exhaustive.