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MTR 100 intercept vehicles, diver-held imaging sonar, and hull inspection devices.

International Submarine

Engineering (ISE) Ltd. 1734 Broadway St., Port Coquitlam BC Canada

TEl: 604 942 5223

Email info@ ise.bc.ca • www. ise.bc.ca

ISE formed in 1974 to design and build underwater vehicles for the sub- sea industry. During the last 35 years

ISE has built remotely operated vehi- cles (ROVs), manned submersibles, semi-submersibles, robotic manipula- tors and AUVs. ISE also designs and builds unique solutions for subsea and robotic tasks, and has a customer base spanning the globe. ISE’s experi- ence is represented by the over 200 vehicles it has built and delivered to clients in 20 countries. These vehicles can be found in the offshore petrole- um industry, scientific research, tele- phone cable maintenance, accident investigation, torpedo recovery and military uses.

Princetel 1595 Reed RD STE 300, Pennington, NJ

Tel: 609-895-9890

Email: info@ princetel.com • www.princetel.com

Princetel, Inc. is a dynamic technol- ogy manufacturer that manufactures fiber optic inter-connect products with the main focus on fiber optic rotary joints (FORJs), electrical slip rings, and video/data MUX/DMUX fiber media converters for the geo- physical, military, biomedical, wind energy, broadcasting, robotic, and communications markets. Founded in 2000, the company has trans- formed itself into a major force in fiber rotary technology innovations.

Princetel offers fiberoptic rotary joints with 1-12 fibers as standard products.

Sonardyne Inc.

President: John Ramsden • VP and GM Americas: Simon Reeves • Marketing Director: Rob Balloch

Facilities: USA, UK, Singapore, Brazil • Testing Capabilities: Acoustic test tanks, client training facilities, sea trial vessels and facility, pressure chambers

Sonardyne is a group of companies manufacturing subsea instrumentation special- izing in the use of sound for underwater navigation, positioning, data communica- tion and control. The company has diversified into underwater maritime security solutions and innovative high resolution survey systems. Operating subsidiaries in

Aberdeen, Houston, Singapore and Brazil employ more than 250 people comprising

R&D, manufacturing, sales, equipment servicing, field engineering, training, and 24-hour customer support. Sonardyne's long-term partnership with its customers has enabled it to develop insight into the diverse nature of subsea operations. In 2010 this has culminated in the introduction of the Sonardyne Matrix; a comprehensive, flex- ible and highly integrated family of products for acoustic and inertial underwater positioning, wireless communica- tions and sonar detection. The aim is to maximize operational efficiencies and minimize vessel and project costs.

Reinforcing the Sonardyne Matrix, is more than 40 years of subsea engineering and product development culminat- ing in the launch of Sonardyne's new 6G (Sixth Generation) technology and subsea instruments.

The diverse requirements of 10 market sectors are addressed within the Sonardyne Matrix: Exploration, Ocean

Science, Telecommunications, Drilling, Construction, Pipeline, Dynamic Positioning, Asset Management, Maritime

Security and Decommissioning. The Sonardyne Matrix assumes no one system meets all requirements for every oper- ation. Exploring the matrix allows users to identify the most appropriate Sonardyne technique for their operational scenario and determine the optimum balance between performance, equipment cost, deployment and vessel time.

Many of the techniques available within the Sonardyne Matrix use Sonardyne's 6G technology platform, which is designed as simple and intuitive to operate. New acoustic instruments enable faster and more efficient solutions for applications such as spool piece metrology and structure placement, reducing vessel time. At the core of the new range of 6G transponders and transceivers is Sonardyne Wideband 2 which uses ultra-wide bandwidth signals offering faster and more robust transmission of data, more precise ranging and mitigation from multipath in shallow water and amongst steel structures in deepwater. Also new for 2010 the Lodestar aided inertial navigation platform is now tight- ly integrated with Sonardyne's acoustic positioning components; providing power and control of surface and subsea transceivers as well as instruments such as Doppler Velocity Logs. This integration enables relative inertial navigation, real-time USBL smoothing, sparse LBL and DP-INS operations. Sonardyne has expanded its portfolio with it's first sidescan sonar, Solstice, which has been developed over 3 years to provide new levels of performance for operators of

AUVs. It provides ultra-low power consumption (12W) and class-leading range and imagery including co-registered bathymetry provides high area coverage rates and long endurance.