Datum was found in 2013 in order to design manned and unmanned mini submarines both for military and commercial use. In 2018, Istanbul Technical University became a shareholder to strengthen the company both strategically and financially. Datum has an interdisciplinary engineering team of 16 engineers, consisting naval architects, mechanical engineers, electric-electronic engineers and industrial engineers, almost all of them are either PhD or Msc level. Datum’s (corporate) office and manufacturing facilities are located in the European side of Istanbul at the Istanbul Technical University Campus.
The project to develop a multipurpose mini submarine (or Çok Amaçlı Mini Denizalti – ÇAMD) is being carried out by Sefine Shipyard and Datum Submarine Engineering Inc, a subsidiary of Istanbul Technical University.
Datum Dry Combat Submersible is a dry swimmer delivery vehicle, which can be transported inside a standard 40 foot container. This allows a transport inside a ship container via sea, air or land transportation covertly.
Turkish Navy built TCG Alemdar, TCG IŞIN and TCG AKIN MOSHIP and RATSHIP Projects which can detect submarines that have grounded and cannot reach the surface by their own means.
Trança is a 20m, approximately 80-ton vehicle with a 2000-mile snorkelling and 400-mile underwater range.
Gurnard is a Deep Diving Wet & Dry Seabed Warfare Submarine is designed to conduct seabed warfare to damage underwater communication/electric cables via its manipulator and it can deliver 2 Malaman Mines.