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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 44process using the SAS Target in a single work? ow. The sensor’s 360-degree scanner and Assistant. The application runs in the background, leaving us- high collection rate provides a premier solution for mapping ers to focus their mental capacity on the most valuable task coastal infrastructure. The CL-360
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43Image courtesy Kongsberg Discovery Image courtesy Teledyne Marine New Products Teledyne Marine had its traditional mega-booth at Oi, busy start to ? nish. Image courtesy Greg Trauthwein offers quality sub-bottom pro? ling capability without the need tion of offshore windfarms. GeoPulse 2 introduces new
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42CONNECTORS BIRNS made a splash at Oi at the company’s Power Forward event, with the celebration of the company’s 70th anniversary, and the launch of a new high amperage subsea connector se- ries, the 225 Amp BIRNS Meridian line. The Meridian line, a robust, custom engineered dry-mate connector series is open
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39solar charging systems on buoys and unmanned surface vehicles (USV). For very low currents, continuous or intermittent, the West Mountain Radio CBA HR (High Resolution) model is designed to test any small battery from 0.7 to 10 volts at load currents of 1 mA to 1000 mA, (10 watt maximum), in increments
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38to and balance discharged on the same two-wire bus. 2,000 cycles. Self-discharge rate is 20%/month. They have a QUANTIFYING BATTERY CAPACITY reasonably high power-to-weight ratio. The discharge curve of a NiCad battery is ? atter than other batteries. The NiCad The best way to determine a battery’s capacity
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36on a proach 0°C depending on current drain. Lead acid batteries small ocean lander or AUV by unplugging the spent exterior can provide substantially higher capacities when discharged battery packs and plugging in the replacement charged ones. at a rate lower than 1C. (See Lander Lab #5, MTR, November/Decembe
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35Figure 1 A self-righting vehicle design with buoyancy high and weight low, WHOI’s SeaBED AUV captures the attention of a pair of curious Antarctic penguins as it is deployed from the British research vessel James Clark Ross. Vehicle designers allowed for temperature reduction of battery capacity. Recharge
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 34LANDER LAB #10 BATTERY PACKS, CHARGING, AND CAPACITY TESTING Photo Credit: Hanumant Singh / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. By Kevin Hardy, Global Ocean Design LLC n ocean lander has many strengths including that produces the current is irreversible. Examples include ? exibility of deployment
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33out of our way to mitigate all of the negative feedback that the industry has received.” Still, the pushback continues. A 2023 Planet Tracker report highlighted that, like crude oil, nodules take millions of years to form, so biodiversity loss would essentially be permanent. And in Feb- ruary 2024
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29that released sedi- ment-laden water led to a low-lying, later- ally spreading turbidity current. Only 2-8% of the sediment mass was detected 2m or higher above the seabed and hadn’t settled after several hours. “All indications to date point to polymetal- lic nodules having the potential to become
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23. This catastrophic event not only shook the world but catalyzed an urgency for understanding sub- marine volcanoes, inspiring new research initiatives and highlighting ongoing scienti? c developments. Submarine volcanoes are largely unknown, in contrast with their sub-aerial (above-ground) counterparts.
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 18, typically every three to ? ve picked up as coating damage. years, or to conduct CP assessments opportunistically when In contrast, a new generation high sensitivity ? eld gradi- in the vicinity. FiGS, however, revolutionizes this process by ent sensor for use on ROVs and AUVs developed by FORCE providing
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15periods. About the Author For glider users working in ? sheries and conservation, Shea Quinn is the Product Line Manager the Sentinel can run several high-energy passive and active of the Slocum Glider at Teledyne Webb acoustic sensors, on-board processing, and imaging hardware Research. Quinn came
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 14the established piloting, crease mission length to over 2 years; or users can ? t more ? ight control, and communications architecture of the Slocum high-energy sensors like active or passive acoustics, sensors Glider, and allows for the same sensor and hardware options with on-board processing, and
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 13type of platform has seen over ity: longer missions, more sensors – the standard Slocum Glider through an the past two decades, growing from especially high-energy sensors – and increased diameter to gain better volu- emerging technology to one of the most the need to operate in more diverse metric ef
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11hazard to manned MCM vessels. To safely detect, identify, and classify these mines, AUVs would be deployed from standoff range to scan the seabed using high resolution underwater imaging systems, including sidescan and synthetic aperture sonars, as well as laser scanners. Ukraine is al- ready in possession
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41. Groke Pro is the ? rst machine vision terest from insurance companies. In Groke Pro was not designed to re- solution to obtain Innovation Endorse- high-risk situations, a recording of im- place crew on board but to provide ment for Products and Solutions from ages is automatically triggered, so Groke
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40and AIS. An inbuilt inertial measurement L trative tasks while on the bridge, port turnaround times unit collects data on pitch, roll, and yaw, and a high-precision are short, and there’s more technology onboard to master. GNSS provides positioning data. The resulting informative Watchkeepers can ?
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39owned by the Danish state, MOL Ship Management Co., Ltd. Scale: 1:25 takes his love of maritime and LEGOs The “Wall Climbing Robot” can move to high Length: 61.5 cm to new heights, creating a LEGO model With: 22.5 cm places that were previously dif? cult to access by Weight: 2.5 kg of the pilot
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37Business Develop- Loading Computer software onboard. ment, Maritime Simulation, Kongsberg Many autonomous ships will be oper- Digital, says simulators with high accu- ated using systems similar to those cur- racy have become a vital tool for engi- rently used for training simulations, says neering studies and
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36FEATURE "Simulators with high "Tomorrow’s seafarer is going accuracy have become a vital to have to be more technology- savvy than in previous years." tool for engineering studies." Image courtesy ABS – Terje Heierstad, VP Business – Vassilios Kroustallis, VP, Global Development, Maritime Business
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32reduces the time it would there won’t be the same downturn in oil and gas that made all ordinarily take, weeks, to recon? gure the wiring of an ordi- the high-spec construction vessels available at attractive rates, nary crane. “Effectively, it can move the foundation in one lift says David Inman, Sales
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31has already felt the need for upgrad- offshore installation. Large ring cranes can optimize the use of ing crane lifting capacity on existing offshore high-value offshore installation vessels by assembling the tur- wind installation vessels: NOV is upgrading the bines ef? ciently, even as offshore wind
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28combined civil service and military crew. Our two ocean going tugs are going to be part of a 10-ship class. We have a special warfare support ship; two high-speed transports; and the high-speed expeditionary fast transport, of which 14 are now in service. We have contractor-owned ships that are em- ployed