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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 51 location over a short range through water and ground. Due to its com- pact size, ease of deployment and low cost, Seatooth-lite is ideally suited for radio frequency identification (RFID) process equipment, networks and wireless SCADA applications. It is available as a tag or a terminal, and it has a number of applications, including: RFID Tagging of Subsea

Assets; Wireless Connectors /Subsea

Connector back up; and Sensor data harvesting

Reson was called on by Calegeo for

SeaBat installation support while mobilizing its geophysical survey ves- sel Kommandor Stuart. Calegeo put its trust in Reson which resulted in the purchase of a new SeaBat 8160.

The system along with Reson

Engineering Service staff were onsite within 24 hours after order confirma- tion. The 50kHz multibeam sonar unit was installed by divers and will enable Calegeo to perform high- speed surveys in shallow water areas and down to 3000m. Reson have recently invested heavily in

Engineering Services and increased

Production capability in order to react quickly to client requests while providing a level of support which is second to none.

RBR unveiled he RBRduo, which is designed to offer more flexibility with the deployment schedule and meas- urement parameters while maintain- ing the RBR 24 bit sample resolution for high accuracy data. The unit fea- tures: More than 30 million measure- ments; More than 5-year deployment @ 1 min sampling interval; True USB 2.0 download speed; and Compatible with the MLM-1000 inductive mooring line modem. As As RBR president Greg Johnson, PhD, explained, “the data is more impor- tant than the instrument,” and the

RBRduo is arranged to allow scien- tists to retrieve and upload date quickly and easily while in the field via their iPhone.

ROMOR Ocean Solutions,

Canada released a new version of its

C-ROM Mooring Solution, the C-

ROM Plus. The C-ROM Plus builds on the flotation technology created within the 80 lbs flotation C-ROM package, to offer an increased 105 lbs buoyancy solution for enhanced instrumentation payload capabilities.

All this is created with only a minor change to the standard design, adding only two inches in length.

ROMOR's SeaRecovery Anchor

Retrieval RotoDrum can also be included with this upgraded model for anchor recovery up to depths of 500m. Both the C-ROM and C-

ROM Plus models now also have the capability of going to full ocean depths with just a slight change to the buoyancy within. For more informa- tion, please visit the ROMOR and

Teledyne RD Instruments unveiled its next-generation Acoustic Doppler

Current Profiling (ADCP) -- the new

Sentinel V ADCP (pictured above) – product line at Ocean Business 2011.

Being in the UK, the Teledyne RDI team had the assistance of an authentic Town

Crier (pictured below) to help spread the word. iXBlue’s GAPS (Global Acoustic

Positioning System) is designed for high- accuracy tracking of

ROVs, AUVs, divers and sonar or other towed systems.

As RBR president

Greg Johnson, PhD, explained, the RBRduo offers more flexibility with the deployment schedule and measure- ment parameters while maintaining the RBR 24 bit sample resolution for high accuracy data.