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Innovative new products, technologies and concepts operation, especially seabed mining. can be ? tted with a 30° tilt adapter. The

Kongsberg Maritime

HiPAP SSBL systems need only a HiPAP 602 is fully compatible with the

Launches New HiPAP 602

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has an- single hull-mounted transducer and a latest HAIN Subsea 7000 inertial navi- nounced the launch of its HiPAP 602 cNODE transponder on the subsea ve- gation system, which allows for fast

Ultra Deepwater SSBL (Super Short hicle to calculate position in three di- calibration of sparse LBL arrays using

Base Line) Positioning Tool. The new- mensions, by measuring the range from the ROV box-in technique. Robust high est addition to Kongsberg’s established the ship’s transducer to the transponder speed modem capabilities permit third- portfolio of acoustic positioning sys- as well as the horizontal and vertical party control and data transfer to and tems, the HiPAP 602 has been designed angles. The HiPAP 602 system’s en- from subsea sensors, AUVs and Hybrid speci? cally to provide extreme range hanced angular measurement accuracy ROVs.

(up to 7,000m+) and accuracy for posi- increases the depth that SSBL position- “The HiPAP 602 should not be seen tioning ROVs and AUVs, and to operate ing can be relied upon for survey opera- as an upgrade of the 502,” says Jan Erik as a DP reference. tions before switching to long baseline Faugstadmo, Product Line Manager,

To achieve this performance, the Hi- positioning techniques (LBL), thereby Kongsberg Maritime. “The two comple-

PAP 602 replaces the spherical trans- reducing operational cost. The system ment one another: the HiPAP 602 is ide- ducer used by the HiPAP 502 with a is fully compatible with the entire range ally suited to high accuracy operation at large-diameter, multi-element planar of existing medium frequency cNODE extreme depths in a conical zone below array combined with electronic beam transponders and modems, with depth the transducer. Outside of those circum- forming and unique signal processing ratings available from 100m to 7,000m. stances, the 502 will still be the system of techniques. This enables narrow trans- The HiPAP 602 shares its modular con- choice. The 602 will be of particular use mitter and receiver beams to be gener- struction principles with its sister prod- in contexts such as deep-water drilling, ated in all directions within the lower uct, the HiPAP 502 acoustic underwater research, deep water AUV positioning half of the transducer, giving the HiPAP positioning and navigation system, al- and deep-sea mining, adding even more 602 high accuracy and long-range capa- lowing the 502 to be easily converted to versatility to the HiPAP range which has bilities in a cone directly below the unit. a 602 by swapping transducers. For long already proven indispensable in a broad

This makes it well suited for deep water range tow? sh tracking the transducer variety of subsea applications.”

Kongsberg Mari- time’s new HiPAP 602 Positioning Tool will facilitate ac- curate operations at extreme depths.

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