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PostgreSQL database for backend storage. The PostgreSQL database option continues to be supported in the 3.1 release.

Chelsea Technologies announced a contract with Hamworthy Krystallon to supply robust sensor systems to monitor their exhaust gas cleaning system as part of the Messina ship- building program. "This is a natural extension to our business supplying

FerryBox environmental systems for commercial vessels and ships of opportunity," said Richard Burt,

Chelsea's marketing director.

BioSonics Inc. had a significant presence at Ocean Business, with new products on display including the

DT-X SUB, a submersible autonomous echosounder. BioSonics will also present information about their new MX Series echosounders, a lower priced single-beam system with specialized data acquisition and visualization software for aquatic habitat assessment. BioSonics offered a demonstration aboard RV Callista, providing visitors the opportunity to see the DT-X echosounder in action and check out Visual Acquisition 6,

BioSonics latest data collection soft- ware. BioSonics also hosted a training meeting for authorized distributors on Thursday, April 7 at 1300h.

Instrument Concepts launched its latest new product in family of acoustic sensing devices – icLISTEN

LF with Ethernet, at Ocean Business. “With the addition of the Ethernet link, the icLISTEN LF becomes the world's first smart hydrophone with a universal high speed link, enabling a wider range of users to listen in the ocean using their existing PC's & networks,” said Mark Wood,

President of Instrument Concepts.

The Ethernet leverages the flexibility of networks/internet allowing the user to listen in the ocean right next to the instrument, or from the other side of the world. Multiple users can access the instrument at once. This standard interface provides built-in isolation, fast data, and lets the user configure icLISTEN LF using a browser. Users of icLISTEN LF can create large hydrophone arrays using a new Ethernet standard, the IEEE 1588 Precision Timing Protocol.

This protocol synchronizes the instruments to within 2 usec, putting all recorded data on a common time reference. Up to 32GB of storage is available as well, with this instru- ment, along with configurable acoustic signal processing and ultra low power (125 MW). This instru- ment is ideally suited for seismic sig- nal band listening.

Just prior to the show, OceanServer received a fourth contract from the

University of Michigan for an Iver2

Turner

Design’s C3 installed in C- ray Deployment

Body, part of the C-FINS package.

Andy Hoggarth, left, marketing and sales manager, CARIS, watches the demonstration of his company’s new

Bathy DataBASE 3.1

Chelsea Technologies demonstrated its Fast

Repetition Rate Fluorimeters onboard RV Callista at

Ocean Business 2011.