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AirMar

Milford, NH

Tel: 603-673-9570

Email: sales@ airmar.com www.airmar.com

CEO: Steve Boucher

President: Tom Krantz

VP: Matt Boucher

Sales Director: Jen Matsis

Engineering Director:

Fred Buerick

Employees: 175

Annual Sales: $25m

Airmar is a manufacturer and OEM supplier of a range of broadband, cus- tom, transducers ranging from 10kHz to 455mHz. Airmar also manufactures Ultrasonic

WeatherStation Instruments, GPS &

Heading Sensors for monitoring information on buoys and vessels.

Airmar’s broadband transducers fea- ture a low Q and very good sensitivi- ty, enabling users to perform accurate surveys with higher resolution. These transducers can also be “chirped” with a longer pulse over a wide-fre- quency band. Users with adjustable frequency echosounders will be able to regulate the operating frequency and tailor the beamwidth to specific survey conditions. Best of all, the transducers are competitively priced.

Applications include: Acoustic

Doppler—For either vessel-mounted

Doppler Speed Logs or ADCP appli- cations; Acoustic Backscatter—For targets large or small. Using a single transducer, or several transducers set at staggered frequencies, you can slide the operating frequency up and down a continuous -3dB band with little variation in acoustic intensity;

Hydrographic Survey—When used at discrete frequencies, the low-ring- ing and narrow-beam characteristics of these transducers help produce the most accurate single-beam surveys at any water depth. In addition, these transducers can be used with elec- tronics that produce a chirp pulse. In 1982, AIRMAR was founded by owner and CEO, Steve Boucher.

Twenty-seven years later the company has grown to a large-scale marine and industrial transducer supplier. Airmar is a leading manufacturer and OEM supplier of a wide range of Low Q, high power, broadband, custom, transducers ranging from 10kHz to 455mHz. These transducers are used widely for ocean & harbor survey & mapping by popular echosounder manufacturers like Odom, Knudsen,

Simrad, Marport and others. Airmar offers transducers for broadband fre- quency operation, acoustic doppler, multi & split beam, sub-bottom pro- filing, and side-scan. Airmar also manufactures Ultrasonic

WeatherStation Instruments, GPS &

Heading Sensors and NMEA 0183 & 2000 Smart transducers for all com- mercial marine markets.

AMEC

St. John's, NL, Canada

Tel: (709) 722-7023 www.amec.com

AMEC Earth & Environmental is one of the world’s leading environ- mental and engineering consulting organizations. Its full service capabili- ties cover a wide range of disciplines, including environmental engineer- ing, meteorology, oceanography and science, geotechnical engineering, water resources, materials testing and engineering, engineering and survey- ing, and program management. 3PS Inc.

Cedar Park, Texas

Tel: 512-610-5200

Email: www.3psinc.com 3PS, Inc. specialize in the design and manufacture of sensors and sys- tems, which must withstand high shock, vibration, and physical abuse inherent with shipboard and under- water operations. Operations and

Engineering personnel prefer the 3PS products due to the 3PS sensor relia- bility and display view ability as well as the excellent support provided by 3PS and it’s six multiple U.S. bases with direct 3PS employees. 3PS is the only provider of Winch & Crane

Monitoring Systems that has been providing combined wireless and hard wired systems for more than 10 years in the offshore environments including: • Deep Tow Line Tension, Payout, and Speed • Seabed deployment winch depth, speed, and tension systems • Hydrographic Launch Payout /

Speed Systems • Side Scan Sonar, Sub-bottom

Profiler Line Monitoring Systems • ROV deployment and TMS

Tension & Payout Systems • Seismic Fairleader, Gun

Deployment, and Streamer Line

Tension Sensors & Displays • Seafloor Angular Position Sensors

Applied Acoustic Engineering Ltd.

Great Yarmouth Norfolk, UK

Tel: +44 1493 440355

Email: general@ appliedacoustics.com www.appliedacoustics.com

CEO: Adam Darling

Marketing Director: Sue Meeken

Sales Manager: Gavin Willoughby

Engineering Director: Neil MacDonald

Testing Capabilities: 6000m pressure test tank

Employees: 40

Applied Acoustics won the Queen’s

Award for Enterprise in 2010, which confirms its strong industry perform- ance in the marine sector. Its range of

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