The Water family is CS-310, the survey-and-carrier hull, and CS-320, the creeper it carries, with KMM-01, the uncrewed clearance workboat, working the surface above them. The door in is here: who reads on, what the family will not do, and how a screened conversation starts.
Every enquiry about this family lands at one desk, whichever machine brought you to it. Three things settle most of a first conversation: who the hulls are built to answer, what they refuse, and what the desk needs from you.
Every enquiry about the Water family reaches the desk every enquiry at Canadian Shield reaches, screened before anything is discussed. Nothing below skips that screen, and no second door is built for this family alone.
The family is two programs on one relationship. CS-310 is the survey-and-carrier hull: route survey, seabed awareness and coastal watchkeeping on long legs, with a flooded wet bay at the centre of buoyancy that takes one cartridge at a time. CS-320 is the creeper that rides in it, a soft pulsed body released at a surveyed point to do the close work on drift and pulse. Both are carriers, not munitions, in every variant and for every customer: no warhead, no fuze, no energetic material, and no mechanism whose purpose is harm. KMM-01, the uncrewed clearance workboat, is a configuration of the mine clearance work rather than a third program, and it is scoped at this desk on the same terms; its own page carries the corridor, the cassettes and the supervision arrangement.
Human safety comes first, on every line. It is the reason a hull goes into the water and a shore crew stays on the pier, and it is the reason the abort on both platforms is mechanical and needs no electronics to work. The Water family sets the machines side by side. What follows is the conversation about them.
Two short lists settle most of a first conversation: the buyer these hulls are built to answer, and the boundary that binds every variant of either one.
A conversation about this family settles on three decisions: which machine, what it carries, and how it is guided. None of the three is made on this page, and none of them is made without you.
What a customer scopes is a hull, the cartridge that rides in it, and the guidance tier the work calls for. The figures behind each one sit on the program pages. A configuration is settled after a screened enquiry, against the water, the work and whatever a customer already runs.
The hull that covers the distance and comes back with the picture: route survey, seabed awareness and coastal watchkeeping, with a wet bay at the centre of buoyancy. CS-310 carries the figures.
A soft pulsed body with no screw, no shaft and no wake, released at a surveyed point for the quiet inspection work on pier piles, intake screens, outfall crowns and hull plating. CS-320 carries the figures.
A sensor node, a relay, a sampler, an inspection package, or the creeper itself. The interface is defined once, cartridge internals are the customer's or a partner's scope, and a new cartridge is tooling rather than redesign.
A configuration is scoped from what a customer brings to it, and what a customer brings is short.
Four answers are the customer's. Everything past them is Canadian Shield's to design and to describe.
The posture is settled before a conversation opens rather than during it: screened first, counsel first on any transfer, and permits taken per shipment.
A screened enquiry is the one door onto this family, and it is the door every other program on this site uses. Nothing on this page, and nothing on either program page, is an offer, a commitment or a representation to any government body. Enquiries sets out the desk in full: one team, one privacy notice, and a person who answers in writing.
Counsel comes first on any international transfer. These are export-controlled designs, a transfer moves only under a Canadian government permit issued for that shipment. Two parts of the family carry export treatment of their own: the inertial navigator and Doppler velocity log that make up the top guidance tier on CS-310, and the emplace-and-retrieve cartridge. Government and ministries carries the route a government or allied program takes once an enquiry opens; this page only opens the door.
Three ways a conversation opens, set out in the order most of them actually take. Each one ends somewhere different, and the first is where most buyers begin.
A session with engineering rather than a sales call. Bring the water and the problem, and the people who designed the hull answer against the mechanism.
Drawings, tolerances and the test basis for both hulls and the cartridges that ride in them, released behind export screening rather than posted.
Give us the end-user, the jurisdiction, the quantity band and the timeline. The answer comes back against your program rather than a price list, and no price is quoted anywhere on this site.
Direct lines, named points of contact and facility details follow the screen. Every design in the family is patent pending, and the two hulls are scoped together or separately, whichever the program needs.
Both hulls end at the same screened desk, read by the people who run the program.
Name the water you have to cover, the work at the far end of the leg, and whatever you already run. Say which hull you are scoping, or say you are not sure yet and let the desk sort that out. The enquiry is screened before anything is discussed, and the reply comes in writing, from a person, against the published record for the platform concerned.
The Water family sets the two hulls beside each other. CS-310 is the survey-and-carrier hull and CS-320 is the creeper it carries, each with its own figures. Government and ministries is the door a government or allied program uses, and Contact Canadian Shield reaches the same desk by another route. Nothing on any of them is an offer.
All Water family designs are patent pending; international transfer is export-controlled and subject to Canadian government permits taken per shipment, and nothing on this page is an offer.
