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Pal? nger Enters AHC Subsea Crane Market

Pal? nger Marine won a contract with Norside for delivery capacity up to 3000m of wire. In addition to the main winch, of a 100 tons active heave compensated (AHC) crane to be in- the crane is also equipped with an AHC auxiliary winch, 10 stalled on the vessel Vestland Cygnus, a VS485 MKIII vessel tons @ 40m, with 500m wire. Main bene? ts for the crane is designed by Wärtsila Ship Design. the high AHC performance and user friendly interface for op-

The vessel was delivered from Fjellstrand to Norside ear- eration. The crane has been designed with full focus on safety lier this year but will now undergo a conversion program at for cargo, equipment, personnel and environment and has

Fjellstrand yard in Norway. After the rebuild, the vessel will systems for both storing and recovery of energy. In addition, be upgraded with an accommodation unit to raise the total ca- the crane ful? lls all requirements from DNV 2.22 for a vessel pacity to 134 persons, a motion compensated gangway and a with “crane” notation. The crane will be built and tested at 100 tons AHC knuckle boom crane. Pal? nger’s range of AHC the Pal? nger facility in Gdynia, Poland, and is scheduled for cranes is developed in close co-operation between Pal? nger delivery September 2016.

Dreggen and Norwegian Deck Machinery (NDM). NDM was “The main reason we selected the crane from Pal? nger Ma- earlier this year acquired by Pal? nger and its technology for rine was the low weight combined with a low center of gravity

AHC winches has been fully utilized in order to develop the which made it possible to use a bigger crane than originally range of AHC cranes. Pal? nger Dreggen is a well-known sup- planned on the vessel,” said Hans Martin Gravdal, owner of plier of offshore cranes and NDM is well known for its winch- the vessel and owner of Norside. “The ? exibility on the tech- es for offshore vessels. nical solutions combined with the commercial terms, and the

The crane to be installed onboard Vestland Cygnus is a fact that it is a local company based in Bergen were all part knuckle boom crane with 100 tons single fall capacity, 100 of the reason why we ? nally ended up signing with Pal? nger tons @ 12m and 20 tons @ 37m. The main winch will be de- Dreggen.” www.pal? nger.com/marine livered with 1000m of wire but is designed and prepared for a

Turner Designs’ FluoroSense

Turner Designs offers phycocyanin (PC) as an optical con- ? guration of its FluoroSense handheld ? uorometer to assist with identi? cation of PC containing algae typically associat- ed with Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Obtaining both PC and chlorophyll estimates helps in determining whether ad- ditional testing is required to check toxicity levels in a body of water. FluoroSense’s simple two-button keypad enables

CARIS Onboard 1.0 users to quickly power on the instrument and take a reading

CARIS released of the near real-time data processing and to estimate chlorophyll or PC in almost any aquatic habi- mapping application, CARIS Onboard, which the company tat. There is no warm-up time required; chlorophyll or PC claims will revolutionize the way in which bathymetry and µg/L estimates are displayed in seconds. The FluoroSense imagery data is processed. CARIS Onboard automatically boasts an extremely lightweight, small, waterproof design, converts data as it becomes available and applies a range while offering a high degree of durability. With a very low of pre-determined corrections, the data can then be used to power draw, the FluoroSense can take more than 10,000 generate a terrain model or mosaic. This allows for early measurements on a single pair of visualization of sea? oor characteristics, putting a greater

AA batteries. Factory calibrated, emphasis on quality control and supporting an environment the only maintenance required is of improved decision making and greater ef? ciency. CARIS simply rinsing after use. The PC

Onboard has been designed to work with survey launches,

FluoroSense can estimate phyco- autonomous underwater vehicles and unmanned surface ve- cyanin concentrations spanning hicles. the linear range from 0-199µg/L

CARIS Onboard is a force multiplier allowing multiple and resolve down to 1µg/L of PC. datasets to be processed quickly and consistently. With the

Together with the chlorophyll ever expanding volume of data being collected at higher

FluoroSense, this is the ideal tool resolutions, CARIS Onboard ? ts seamlessly into the Ping- for quickly assessing pigment to-Chart suite of software and reduces your product creation levels of algal blooms. timeline.

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