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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 57Pharos Offshore Group Ltd.Netherton Harthill, Shotts, ML7 5TT Scotland Tel: +44 (0) 1501 752539 Email: info@ pharos-offshore.com Website: www.pharosoffshoregroup.com President/CEO: Phil Walker Engineering Director: Don Lasser Facility: Operations, Production Number of Employees: 85+Pharos Offshore Group is a special- ty marine contractor. Since 2003, the companys personnel arm, DF Hydraulic Consultants Ltd., has pro- vided unmanned services in extreme underwater environments. Pharos Offshore Groups employees and contractors have been directly involved with over 750,000km of telecoms cable installation and burial.The company has also performed over 6,000km of 3-meter burial, in addition to Post-Lay Inspection and Burial (BLIB), Pre-Lay Grapnel Run (PLGR) route clearance, mobilization and vessel modification. Pharos Offshore Group has devel- oped a multi-functional Inter- Turbine Array Trencher system. The ITAT is an 800 HP (600kW) cable trenching Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) system. This tracked ROV, with up to 3-meter burial capacity, is specifically designed for the offshore wind farm trenching market. Another system, the MEN- TOR 800, provides the ITATs pow- erful jetting capability to depths up to 3000m for deeper cable and O&Gpipeline work. Rockland Scientific was founded in Victoria in 2005. Co-founders Dr. Rolf Lueck (President) and Fabian Wolk (VP), both oceanographers, collaborat- ed at UVic in the mid-90s and have translated their academic careers into a business that supplies researchers and ocean industry with tools for the study of ocean turbulence. Today, RSI is a manufacturer of instrumentation for the measurement marine turbulence. RSI operates worldwide and has delivered measurement systems and high-accuracy sensors to universities, research institutes and navies in 14 countries. Recently, RSI has formed a partnership with JFE Advantech, a major oceanographic instrumentation manufacture in Japan. The agreement involves technology transfer, manufacturing licensing, distribution, and joint development of new sensor technology. Technology Profile Rockland Scientific offers turbulence measurement systems and sensors for operation in the upper ocean and down to 6000 m. The product lineup falls into three major categories: vertical profiling instruments; modular sensor packages for deployments on AUV, gliders and other autonomous plat- forms; and customized measurement solutions for science, engineering, and security applications. The vertical profilers come in a variety of sizes that can be deployed in a range of environments, from lakes and coastal zones to deep ocean areas. The flag-ship profiler is the VMP-6000 profiler, a completely autonomous pro- filing robot designed to probe turbulence levels in the deep ocean down to depths of 6000 m. The modular MicroRider system is used on AUV plat- forms such as Hydroid's Remus 100, 600 and 6000 AUVs. The most versa- tile application of the MicroRider is the integration with the Teledyne Webb Slocum glider, which makes it possible to conduct turbulence measurements autonomously for many weeks. Customized solutions include various towed configuration of turbulence sensors, as well as moored systems for long- term studies in a fixed location. Current R&D initiatives focus on the integration of RSIs turbulence sensor tech- nology into autonomous profiling floats (ARGO floats) for long-term monitoring and surveillance of oceanic tur- bulence and mixing.Rockland Scientific Inc.520 Dupplin Road, Victoria, B.C. V8Z 1C1 Tel: (250) 370-1688 www.rocklandscientific.com info@ rocklandscientific.com President: Dr. Rolf Lueck Vice President: Dr. Fabian Wolk VP Engineering: Mr. Peter Stern Testing Capabilities: Calibration facility for ?turbulence velocity shear probes ?pressure calibration to 0.1% accuracy ?temperature calibration to 0.005 degC ?conductivity calibration to 0.005 mS/cm ?pressure testing facility for small sensors to 600 bar