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56 MTR January/February 2011 products

Teledyne Gateway Buoy

Teledyne Benthos released its new

Teledyne Gateway Buoy, designed to provide real-time data monitoring of subsea sensors from a remote shore station. The new gateway buoy designed to be useful for a range of applications and incorporates the

Teledyne Benthos ATM-886 modem. In addition, the buoy is two-man deployable, uses recharge- able batteries and has a deployment life of up to two months using Freewave transmission to a shore station. http://www.benthos.com

VisualWorks 9.0

VisualSoft launched

VisualWorks 9.0, an upgrade to its existing

Pipeline and Structural

Inspection Survey Suite.

VisualWorks 9.0 intro- duces unique workscope support tools and a new inte- grated 3D Structural Viewer across the entire range of online and offline products: Visual3D-Inspector adds inspection workscope planning and progress tracking seamlessly integrated with digital video acquisition con- trols and anomaly logging. 3-D Structural Viewer loads electronic drawings and provides two-way linking of com- ponents in asset models with the real video and all associ- ated survey and inspection data for better visualization during analysis and reporting. www.visualsoft.ltd.uk

Specialist SV Sensors

OSIL/AML supplied a set of specialist SV sensors, cali- brated to 2000 m/s, as part of the instrumentation pack- age for use in water-filled cavity survey and well logging applications. In order to survey a well or cavity it is nec- essary to use a specially designed vertical sonar instru- ment. The vertical sonar instrument was designed around a standard 4-in. bore to enable easy access to the majority of situations. The sonar is capable of surveying subter- ranean caverns, sub-sea caverns and wells.

PAVS-150

Phased Array Velocity Sensor

Teledyne RD Instruments (RDI) released its new 150 kHz Phased

Array Velocity Sensor (PAVS) for extended range navigation applica- tions. The PAVS150 is reportedly the industry’s first 1000 m depth rated compact Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) designed to provide pre- cision velocity data at up to 500 m of altitude above the seafloor.

Designed with the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) in mind, the PAVS150 is compact enough to be packaged into vehicles as small as 12.75 in. (32.39 cm) in diameter. In addition to UUV appli- cations, PAVS150’s space saving design meets the payload restric- tions onboard manned and unmanned submersibles. The PAVS150 is available in both an inline and a right angle configuration to accommodate the needs of a variety of applications, and can also be modified to meet customized packaging requirements. www.rdinstruments.com/pavs.html