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Ashtead Subsea Tech Showcased The Port of Blyth the new Chief Development Of? cer Ted selectable frequencies from 170 to in water depths up to 13,000 feet. The

Curley. Other new distributors: Sadaret 450kHz and swath coverage from 10° SPRINT for Ventana has already been

Ltd (nonexclusive representative to 160° are selectable on the ? y, during installed and commissioned, while the in the U.K. and Ireland), Sea? oor survey operations. unit for Doc Ricketts is scheduled to be

Systems (nonexclusive representative delivered soon.

in California, Washington, Oregon NASA Orders an ROV and Alaska) and A2 Marine Solution NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has Winch Systems for U.S.

Navy Sonar (nonexclusive representative in Brazil). ordered a 300-meter depth-rated Endura 300 commercial-grade ROV from Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions

Polarcus Wins 3D Project Aquabotix Technology Corporation, division has been selected by Raytheon

Polarcus Limited received a Letter the wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary UUV Integrated Defense Systems to provide of Award for a broadband 3D marine Aquabotix Ltd. Integrated with a range its winch system technology for use in a seismic project in Asia Paci? c. The of specialist sensors, the ROV will used new Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) for the project is due to commence in Q4 2017 to create multidimensional maps of U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and will run for approximately one oceanic environs as part of its Ocean class. Curtiss-Wright will manufacture month. Worlds exploration program, which the products covered by this agreement is undertaking ocean exploration on at its INDAL facility in Mississauga,

Earth, in order to, among other things, Ontario.

Oceanscan Invests in assist NASA with its search for the best-

Multibeam and INS

Swathe Services announced that known candidates for life in the solar

FPROV Upgraded

Oceanscan has invested in R2Sonic 2022 system. Seatools completed the upgrade of the digital wideband multibeam system with fall pipe ROV installed on Van Oord’s integrated I2NS (POS MV Wavemaster) ? exible fall pipe vessel Stornes. The

Sonardyne for MBARI ROVs

INS. The Sonic 2022 is portable, the Sonardyne INS was selected by the upgrade, which enables Van Oord to compact form factor making it suited Monterey Bay Aquarium Research perform precision rock installation in for integration into AUV, ROV or small Institute (MBARI), for its deep-rated water depths of up to 2,100 meters, boat operations with a range up to 400m remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), required modi? cation of both the ROV’s of water. The 3,000m-rated Sonic 2022 Ventana and Doc Ricketts. The SPRINT electronic system as well as its software.

unit is ? tted with the 700 kHz UHR systems will be used in conjunction Seatools initially delivered the fall

Option, Truepix backscatter and raw with MBARI’s existing Sonardyne pipe ROV in 2007, with a depth rating water column detect. When UHR is Ranger 2 acoustic tracking systems to of 1,350 meters. Over the years, the selected, the beam width is 0.6° x 0.6° improve the accuracy, precision and 300 kW fall pipe ROV, executed with providing narrow beam widths. User- integrity of subsea vehicle positioning a range of dynamic positioning modes www.marinetechnologynews.com

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