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Advanced Navigation Applied Acoustics

Sydney, Australia Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK www.advancednavigation.com.au/ www.appliedacoustics.com

CEO/President: Chris Shaw / Xavier Orr CEO/President: Adam Darlin g

Advanced Navigation is a privately Applied Acoustics was founded in

Martin Charles owned Australian company that spe- 1989 to supply the newly growing cializes in the development and manu- southern North Sea offshore hydrocar-

Aquatic lays and retrieves ? exible facturing of navigation technologies bon industry but has since moved into and robotics. The company has a focus other market areas. Now its customers products from the seabed for the oil on generating quality products, both in include not only commercial survey and gas and renewable markets. As an terms of hardware and software. The companies but also underwater defense operator of modular drive systems, ten- company is experienced in a broad range industries and academic institutions sioners and carousels, Aquatic provides a service through its equipment, people of ? elds including sensors, GNSS, iner- monitoring the wellbeing of the oceans. tial navigation, RF technologies, acous-

The operation is located on one site in and expertise to deliver solutions in the harshest environments.

tics, robotics, AI and algorithms. the port town of Great Yarmouth, Nor-

Aquatic was contracted to support a

Subsonus Tag is a acoustic position- folk, U.K., and is supported by a net- ing transponder that operates with the work of agents around the world. A major umbilical installation in the Atoll

Subsonus USBL. It offers an 18-month steady stream of new products include ? eld in the East Nile Delta. Due to the battery life in a compact package, and a new addition to the Dura-Spark range specialized nature of the umbilical, thanks to its unique seamless encapsu- of sub-bottom pro? ling equipment and equipment was required to operate in lation it is designed to be maintenance an Easytrak Nexus 2 USBL system that synchronization with the existing vessel free.

comes with a choice of interchangeable lay spread and support the weight of the

Since there are no connectors, fast transceiver; the directional 2780 that umbilical without exceeding its strin- gent gripping force requirements. charging is performed using readily can achieve very long range (up to 3km)

Aquatic’s engineering team, along with available standard Qi chargers. Highly with a high degree of accuracy and the scalable, with up to 65,000 Subsonus omni-directional 2686 ideal for use un the client’s subcontractors designed and

TAGs trackable using one surface Sub- extremely shallow water, less than 2m built interface equipment to use with their 4-Track Dual Tensioner System. sonus unit. The small form factor makes in depth.

The customized interface allowed com- it perfectly suitable to for ROV/AUV mand and telemetry signals to be trans- and diver tracking while the scalability mitted between the two systems and let and long battery life make them ideal for the equipment be controlled from the subsea asset tracking and remote sens- existing vessel carousel control room. ing applications.

The team also devised an Emergency

Stop system to link with the vessel’s safety controller so that the umbilical was protected even during an emergen- cy shutdown.

Aquatic

As a result, Aquatic successfully sup-

Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.

ported the loadout, transpooling, and http://www.aquaticsubsea.com/ offshore installation of a 110km umbili-

CEO/President: Martin Charles cal in the Atoll project.

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