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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 55 face bottles. The focused 0.5° x 1° beam widths, coupled with ultra high 60kHz signal bandwidth, are designed to provide excellent resolu- tion over bottom features and imagery. The Sonic 2024 provides productive swath coverage up to 150° (7.4x WD) with selectable ping rates up to 100 Hz enabling faster survey speeds, reducing survey time and costs. www.r2sonic.com

FS-3DT Bistatic 3D

Forward Looking Sonar

The FS-3DT Bistatic sonar from

Farsounder is a design to mount the transmitter and receiver in separate, but smaller, form factor modules. "Listening to our customers over the years, this concept is something that we have been contemplating for quite a while," said Matthew Zimmerman,

VP Engineering. "Hydrodynamics can be a major consideration for some vessels, such as high speed catama- rans, and very fine line motor and sailing yachts. These new modules will have a significant impact for such streamlined vessels." Separation of the module s can be horizontal or ver- tical allowing greater installation flex- ibility. www.farsounder.com

New Scanning Sonars &

Profilers

Subsea Kongsberg Maritime was scheduled to debut two new sonar products from its sonar division,

Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd. The 1171

Series is a complete range of multi- frequency, fast scanning obstacle avoidance imaging and profiling sonars, which have been developed to meet the requirements for both shal- low and deep ocean applications.

The dual transducer design allows optimized operational configuration for both long range obstacle avoid- ance and shorter range imaging detail. The transducer is protected within an oil-filled, pressure compen- sating dome. www.kongsberg.com

Swedish Coastguard

Selects Easytrak

The Swedish Coastguard has recently awarded Applied Acoustic

Engineering a contract for two

Easytrak Portable subsea tracking sys- tems through its partner CA Clase

AB of Göteborg. Easytrak is a USBL tracking system that can provide vital location information on moving tar- gets such as divers and ROVs operat- ing out of sight underwater, and will be primarily used in the authority's search and rescue. www.appliedacoustics.com

Highest Resolution

Magnetic Sensing

PNI Sensor Corporation announces availability of the MagIC ASIC.

When used in conjunction with

PNI's SEN-XY magneto-inductive sensors, the MagIC facilitates six times greater magnetic resolution and sample rates than the current PNI solution. The MagIC is a new mag- neto-inductive drive circuit enabling

PNI's SEN-XY to more precisely and rapidly sense magnetic fields while drawing very little power.

Email [email protected].

GRL Opens ROV Pilot

Support, Assessment

Center

General Robotics Limited (GRL) opened a ROV pilot support and assessment centre in Aberdeen, intended to help both individual pilots and ROV operators extend and evaluate piloting skills. GRL with the

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