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Marine Growth can increase drag on a vessel's hull by as much as 60% and can decrease speed by up to 15%. This can require an astonishing 40% increase in fuel consumption to compensate for these losses which in turn means a vast increase in greenhouse gas emissions. With fuel making up as much as half of
the total cost of global shipping, marine growth affects the ship owner's profits as well as having a detrimental environmental impact. Traditionally the way the maritime industry dealt with marine growth was to treat it with toxic and polluting chemicals, heavy metals and coatings. Currently the commercial shipping industry leeches in excess of 7 million kg of copper ion pollution into the marine environment every year.

SHIPSONIC ultrasonic antifouling offers boat and ship owners a method to combat marine growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save fuel costs with zero environmental impact! SHIPSONIC works by inducing ultrasonic sound waves into the structure requiring protection. This causes the protected hull structure, sea chests, pipework or cooler tube nests to vibrate at frequencies which have been found to be the most effective for combating marine growth.

SHIIPSONIC installs easily without hull or bulkhead penetrations, all you need is a constant power supply 240v genset or shorepower. SHIPSONIC transponders are glued directly onto the the inside of the hull structure or the outside of box coolers and sea chests.

FRP, Steel and Aluminium hulls are easily protected from growth, unfortunately the systems do not work in timber or foam sandwich hulls.