Most early-stage ocean-tech teams lose more time to boat logistics than to the sensor development itself. A platform built to carry a third-party payload removes that step rather than shortening it.
A bathymetric chart and an environmental impact assessment are not the same deliverable, even when they're built from the same survey pass. The difference is repetition and habitat context, not depth accuracy.
A single bronze ram found by a fisherman in 2004 became a two-decade recovery programme once the site was actually mapped. The difference between a chance find and a mapped debris field is the whole argument for documentation-first heritage work.
