SHOAL

Autonomous observability below the waterline.

A SCHWARMWÄCHTER PRODUCT
SCHWARMWÄCHTER·SHOAL

When no one
can go in.

A ship can survive the strike — and still make its interior inaccessible. Before recovery begins, someone has to know what happened inside.

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4–5 cm.

Small enough for the spaces conventional machines were never built to enter.

Target architecture
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One deployment.
A distributed machine.

A swarm enters through existing access points and casualty-created openings — without putting a person inside.

Mission concept · up to hundreds of autonomous nodes
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No infrastructure enters the ship. The swarm creates it. GATEWAY at the hatch · reference · clock · uplink ANCHOR CHAIN docked · relay and positioning reference SENTINEL stays behind · reports change only SCOUTS move ahead · extend the chain MAPPERS follow the chain to the damage DAMAGE contact · ultrasound finding → packet → hop by hop → gateway → map

They do not need
the infrastructure.

They become it.

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No GPS. No tether.
No existing network.

Each node only needs to reach the next.

Acoustic links carry reach · optical links carry bursts of data · the swarm carries the network deeper
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A sensor that moves
to the question.

See · dock · measure · relay

Camera · contact sensing · local communication · target capabilities
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Not more data.
A decision-ready picture.

Every finding carries source, confidence and provenance

The fish are
not the invention.

The intelligence that decides what to believe is.

SCHWARMWÄCHTER TRUST FUSION
observation × context × credibility × corroboration → confidence

Partial observations. Conflicting sensors. Failed nodes. One uncertainty-aware world model — the same one that tells you a drone is coming before it hits, and what it did after.

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Rescue opens the door.
Observability is the larger market.

CasualtyKnow before humans enter.
InspectionReach what is difficult to inspect today — tanks, hulls, offshore structures, ports.
PersistenceReturn, compare, detect change. Leave intelligence where inspection used to end.
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Critical maritime infrastructure
should never become invisible.

Ports, energy terminals, offshore assets and the vessels that serve them — observable from the inside, even when access, communications and human intervention are constrained.

Ports · Energy · Maritime resilience
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The architecture is early enough to shape.

Schwarmwächter is assembling the engineering, maritime partnerships and capital required to take SHOAL from architecture to sea.

Nina Klee, Founder & CEO · nina.klee@arqon.group
schwarmwaechter.de