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Low Cost PC Based Sonar for Windows

CruzPro Ltd. has developed what it calls the first dual frequency PC based color sonar that works in both stan- dard Analog and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) modes.

The PcFF80 interface box offers 2560 watts peak-to-peak (320 watts RMS) and will work to 1000 feet at 200Khz and more than 1500 feet at 50Khz. The PcFF80 will turn any laptop or desktop PC running Win98, WinXp or Win2K into a high resolution color sonar unit for less than $1,000, including transducer.

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C-Surveyor AUV Far East Campaign

C&C Technologies wants to mobilize one of its C-

Surveyor deepwater AUVs to the Far East in the begin- ning of 2006. The company is currently discussing proj- ects with several operators in the region to align time schedules and budgets. Thomas Chance, president of C & C Technologies, Inc., said, "We are uncertain that there is enough work in the Far East to justify the mobilization costs. In order for us to expand our AUV services to this region, we must secure several pending projects."

C&C is presently finishing up the customization of its next generation AUV, the C-Surveyor II. Once complet- ed, C-Surveyor II will embark on several months of Gulf of Mexico projects. When these GOM projects are com- pleted, a decision will be made regarding mobilization to the Far East. Meanwhile, the C-Surveyor I is currently working in Brazil and will transit to West Africa in July for various pipeline surveys in that region.

C & C's AUVs collect detailed data including multi- beam bathymetry and imagery, chirp side-scan sonar, and chirp sub-bottom profiler data. Sub-sampled data is then acoustically transmitted from the AUV to the support ves- sel in real-time, thus allowing on-board engineers to make informed route decisions and perform on-the-fly quality assurance.

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WesternGeco Conducts Survey

WesternGeco said that Sabah Shell Petroleum Company

Ltd. has contracted the company to conduct a high-reso- lution Q-Marine survey over its St. Joseph field, offshore

Sabah, Malaysia. The survey, which commenced in June, is the first Q-Marine project in Southeast Asia and will cover approximately 100 sq. km. The shallow, structural- ly complex St. Joseph reservoir produces oil and gas in an area that poses many surveying and imaging challenges.

Strong currents, numerous obstructions and infrastruc-

MTS ROV Committee Announces Scholarship Winners

Kevin Bretney, David Kunz, Brady Gibbs, and Justin Leidwanger have been selected as recipients of the Marine

Technology Society's 2005 ROV Committee Scholarships. In addition, Yuko Yokazawa and Kathy Keyton received special ROV Committee Scholarships exclusively for MATE students. Bretney, who will be a freshman at Franklin

W. Olin College of Engineering, was awarded $5,000; Kunz who will be a freshman at Gonzaga University in

Spokane was awarded $2,500. Gibbs is a marine/mechanical engineering major at Texas A&M University in

Galveston, and Leidwanger who is pursuing a masters in nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University in College

Station each received $1,250. As winners of the MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) ROV

Committee Scholarships, Yokazawa who is a marine science and technology major at Monterey Peninsula College received $3,000, and Keyton who is pursuing a degree in marine technology at Cape Fear Community College will receive $2,000. All will be recognized during the Awards Presentations at Underwater Intervention '06 in New

Orleans, Louisiana. Drew Michel, chairman of the ROV Committee of MTS initiated the scholarship program in 1994. Since then it has awarded over $65,000 to deserving students.

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