James Fisher is a world-leading provider of submarine rescue services and equipment through our specialist company JFD, which has the ability to design, manufacture, deliver, operate and maintain submarine rescue vehicles.

JFD delivers innovative and technically advanced solutions to ensure the safety of submariners worldwide, offering a portfolio of submarine rescue products and services. The safety of submariners remains at the heart of what we do, having been an integral part of submarine rescue projects around the world, with years of safe and successful operations.

JFD provides subsea rescue services, products, engineering services and training to 80 countries and 33 of the world’s navies, including the Royal Navy, Australian, Singaporean, Indian and South Korean navies.

James Fisher's specialist JFD, provides equipment, consultancy and training services focused on the specific needs of the special operations sector, including an advanced range of tactical diving vehicles specifically designed to facilitate the safe insertion and extraction of special operations forces and equipment. Our vehicles are surface or subsurface crafts, each optimised for a particular deployment method or mission profile.

Our consultants’ vast experience enables us to support a range of customers' needs from special operations and defence to law enforcement agencies, and customers with specific responsibilities in the marine field.

James Fisher provides an extensive range of innovative and highly capable underwater life support systems specifically developed to meet the varied requirements and operational demands of defence divers and facilitate the safe insertion and extraction of special operations forces.

Our niche specialist JFD's core focus is on the continued improvement of diver safety and equipment reliability, we provide defence divers' equipment for a diverse range of diving disciplines, including saturation diving, submarine rescue, mine disposal to special forces combat swimming, each requiring mission specific life support systems, ancillary equipment and training.

James Fisher provides a vast range of mooring and fendering products to the world’s navies. Our specialist Fendercare Marine's comprehensive solutions include ship-to-quay, on-board and submarine berthing, to high quality deck and jetty equipment. All our solutions are certified by the world's leading independent inspection bodies.

We developed a naval lightweight grey fender in co-operation with the Yokohama Rubber Company following extensive trials and input from the Royal Navy, subsequently supplied to many navies across the world.

James Fisher provides a comprehensive range of marine products and services to the global defence industry.

We’re a leading supplier of tailored condition monitoring, vessel performance and efficiency monitoring software solutions and consultancy services to the defence industry, having provided the Mimic condition monitoring solution to the Royal Navy for over 20 years.

James Fisher's vessels also provide specialised support to the defence sector, including transporting fuel to remote islands and far-flung communities, and complex refuelling of naval vessels such as the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales.

We also have vessels on standby for the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), as emergency oil spill response vessels – the Corrib Fisher and Mersey Fisher. These vessels support environmental protection by responding to maritime incidents, having been specially adapted for oil spill response operations to address vessel pollution and emission-related issues for a safe, secure, and green maritime sector.