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OI 2016: The Final Round-Up • UTS-9400 Universal Top Side Unit The newest member of the Teledyne expense of mobilizing manned boats

Built on the strength and dependability Benthos acoustic release family, the and the danger of placing technicians of the UDB-9400 Deck Unit, Benthos’ R2K is a mid-water solution for acous- in hazardous locations. The Z-Boats new UTS-9400 offers new features and tic release operation, featuring new echosounder, GPS and radio modem capabilities including a new user-friend- advanced electronics architecture with allow the operator to track the boat in ly color touchscreen display, universal battery voltage indication and tilt mea- real time from a shore laptop. The new command capability. surement in 1 percent increments. Z-Boat 1800 RP offers an interchange- able sensor well, which allows for the • R2K Acoustic Release • rapidCAST easy integration of an array of surveying

The Teledyne Oceanscience rapidCAST sensors.

underway pro? ling system provides

Teledyne RESON debuted the near real time SV data to surveyors, • SeaBat T50-P new SeaBat T50-P multibeam while eliminating survey downtime and The new SeaBat T50-P multibeam echosounder.

minimizing bathymetry data uncertain- echosounder from Teledyne RESON of- ty. The automated pro? ler deliver sound fers clean and ultra-high resolution data, velocity casts to 500 m at 8 kts speed portability and wider swath coverage. through water while underway, without The SeaBat T50-P Full Rate Dual Head the requirement of an operator on deck. con? guration was shown for the ? rst time at OI 2016.

• Z-Boat / Z-boat 1800 RP

Oceanscience’s two-man portable Z- • Saturn-DVL

Boats aims to deliver value and con- Showcasing the capabilities of Tele- venience for hydrographic surveyors dyne Marine, Saturn-DVL is TSS’ new conducting shallow water inshore ? ber optic gyro device providing an in- bathymetric surveys by removing the tegrated navigation solution for subsea vehicles. It can provide a wealth of nav- igation and inertial measurement from its durable yet compact housing. Soon to be available in 0.1°, 0.3° and 0.5° heading accuracies and with a 600kHz or 300kHz DVL, the unit will be depth rated to 4,000 meters as standard.

Kongsberg Demos New EM 2040P

Kongsberg Maritime demonstrated its latest development of its EM 2040 mul- tibeam echo sounder technology plat- form at Oceanology International 2016.

Test surveys were run on demo boat

Northern Wind.

The new highly portable EM 2040P is ? rst and foremost lighter and more compact, according to Ståle Myklebust,

Senior Engineer Service Field Service

Hyd, Kongsberg Maritime. The shal- low water multibeam echo sounder is designed for easy transport and quick deployment, while offering survey per-

Teledyne had a number of new and existing products on formance up to and exceeding the IHO- display at Oceanology International 2016.

S44 special order and the more stringent

LINZ speci? cation.

“We see this as a good replacement for

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