ADS provide a full range of underwater archaeological services, ensuring compliance with all legal heritage and planning requirements, allowing the client to complete projects in a timely and cost effective manner.
We offer a variety of services from Desktop Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments to final site resolution.
● Maritime archaeological archival research
● Desktop Assessments
● Environmental Impact
Assessments and Impact Statements
● Strategic Environmental
Assessments
● Archaeological monitoring of capital dredging
● Marine geo-physical surveys and archaeological interpretation of results
● Intertidal and metal detection surveys
● Underwater diver visual inspections and underwater metal detection surveys
● Underwater video and digital photographic surveys
● Underwater archaeological excavations
We offer a first class archaeological
service and flexibility in response to
the needs of our clients. With
operational bases in Sligo, Dublin,
Belfast and Kells we are uniquely
placed to carry out all aspects of
archaeological work across the
whole of the island of Ireland. Our
diving staff are available at short
notice.
All diving operations are conducted with full compliance to diving at work legislation (S.I. No. 422/1981, Ireland, Diving at work regulations (NI) 2005, and S.I. 1997 No. 2776, UK). ADS diving staff are qualified HSE part 1 divers (offshore). ADS can also provide commercial dive supervisors.
