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58MTRJuly/August2011 Planet Ocean LtdUnit 8, Camberley Business Centre Bracebridge, Camberley, Surrey GU15 3DP UK Tel: +44 (0) 845 108 1457 Website: www.planet-ocean.co.uk Commercial Manager: Graham Sloane ? Employees: 5 Planet Ocean provides marine scientific instruments for research, survey and opera- tions support. The company specializes in data and directional wave buoys; sensors for nitrate, phosphate, radiance, irradiance, fluo-rometery, plankton and ice keel; flow cytometers; miniature data loggers; acoustic data modems; mooring and asset trackingbeacons; mooring recovery systems; and smart hydrophones. THE MARINE TECHNOLOGY REPORTER 100Hydroid manufactures Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). In 1995, the REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring Units) AUV was invent- ed, and Hydroid was subsequently founded in 2001. Hydroids REMUS vehicles are used in military, academic and commercial ventures around the world. Hydroid holds the exclusive license from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the manufacture and further development of all REMUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicle technology. In June 2008, Hydroid was acquired by Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, and is now part of a larger company that offers a full complement of AUVs, for operations in any water depth that includes the REMUS and HUGIN family of customizableautonomous underwater vehicles. Hydroid continues to invest private funds in the development of AUV tech- nology and has significantly increased the capabilities of these systems over the past nine years. These underwater systems have been used to aid in hydrographic surveys, harbor security operations, debris field mapping, mine countermeasures, scientific sampling and mapping, and deep sea explo- ration. The company now boasts over 200 AUV system sales to a variety of domestic and international customers in nearly 30 nations. Technology Profile From the coastline to the deepest corners of the ocean, Hydroid, Inc. offers three autonomous underwater vehicles: the lightweight REMUS 100; the REMUS 600; and the REMUS 6000 for deep-water. STANDARD SENSORS: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP); Doppler Velocity Log (DVL); Long Baseline Navigation (LBL); Dead Reckoning Accuracies; Sidescan Sonar; Conductivity and Temperature; Depth; Bathymetry; Heading, Roll & Pitch; Sound Speed; Mission Progress; System Status; Multi-Vehicle Capability. ? ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS : ECO sensors; Dissolved Oxygen; pH; ORP ? COMMUNICATIONS : Acoustic Communications (Low and High Frequency Options available); Iridium; WiFi; Gateway Buoy ? IMAGING : Dynamically focused Sidescan Sonar; Interferrometric Multi-Beam; Multi-Beam Echosounder (MBES); Dual Frequency Sidescan Sonar; Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS); Video Camera; Electronics Still Camera (ESC) and with 200 watt-sec Strobe Lighting; Sub-Bottom Profiler (SBP) ? NAVIGATION : Global Positioning System (GPS); Digital Ultra Short Baseline (DUSBL); Inertial Navigation System (INS) ? SOFTWARE : 32-Bit Vehicle Interface Program (VIP); Trackpoint Capability; RECON software (remote control capability) ? SHIPBOARD DEVICES : Shipboard Communications Console; Shipboard Communications Mast; Power Box with Battery Charger; Antenna Box (GPS, Iridium, WiFi and optional Freewave); Acoustic Communications Bottle; Ranger Deck Box; Towfish; Acoustic Transponders Hydroid, Inc(A Kongsberg Company) 6 Benjamin Nye Circle Pocasset, MA 02559 Phone: +1 508-563-6565Email: sales@ hydroid.com URL: www.hydroid.com Hydroid Europe Unit 3, Basepoint Enterprise Centre Andersons Road Southampton SO14 5FEUnited Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 2380-682-388President/CEO: Christopher von Alt Hydrographic Sales Manager: Rick Morton Sales Engineer: Ernest PetzrickDirector, Hydroid Europe: Graham Lester Facilities: Testing Capabilities: Test Tank/Boat Number of Employees: 70