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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 44sensor making it the ? rst of its kind DEALS high-accuracy marine grade laser scanner. The lidar sensor • Metron, Cellula Robotics Partner can be integrated with high resolution multibeam systems and Metron signed a partnership agreement with Cellula Ro- the CARIS Ping-To-Chart work? ow, allowing for
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42.7 mm SubConn Nano connector. Innovative connectivity built on 45 years of ? eld-proven and market-trusted design. Image courtesy MacArtney Birns celebrated its 70th anniversary at Oi. Cables & Connectors CABLES & CONNECTORS BIRNS made a splash at Oi at the company’s Power Forward event, with the celebration
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38on a two-wire volt- LiPo battery by setting the CBA cut-out voltage 0.50vdc low- age bus, as was described in Lander Lab #5, “Lithium Polymer er than the rated LVCO minimum. The LVCO was con? rmed Batteries” (MTR, November/December 2022). Because each to work as advertised. LiPo battery is regulated by
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37batteries, also called starved electrolyte batteries, there is a thin, ultra-? ne ? berglass mat sandwiched between the plates of each cell that is saturated with battery acid to about 95% of what it can hold. This glass mat absorbs and immobilizes the acid while still keeping the acid available to the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36. Lead-acids are temperature dependent, and their capac- from the overall buoyancy, while carried inside, they subtract ity may fall to as low as 60% of rated capacity as they ap- their air weight; and 2) it is easier to exchange batteries on a proach 0°C depending on current drain. Lead acid batteries small
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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: 33regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32FEATURE SEABED MINING by a sea? oor plume from its pilot collection system test. pact, nodule collection system that utilizes mechanical and The Metals Company recently signed a binding MoU with hydraulic technology. Paci? c Metals Corporation of Japan for a feasibility study on The company’s SMD
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 30FEATURE SEABED MINING bilical. It has passive heave compensation which nulli? es the necott. “The focus since then has been on scaling while en- wave, current and vessel motions that in? uence loads in the suring the lightest environmental impact,” says The Metals power umbilical. The LARS can
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25Auerbach explained that ideally, “one ? ed layers of geothermal activity,” noted changes over an area of 8,000 km2. They would have both instruments: seismom- Skett, “and the change in salinity and dis- found up to seven km3 of displaced ma- eters to detect and locate subsurface ac- solved particles for
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15sensor options for longer mission periods. 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
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 14TECH FEATURE TELEDYNE SLOCUM GLIDERS to hold over 3.5 times as many lithium primary batteries as the the water column and its thrusters give it the ability to stay standard Slocum Glider, and to physically accommodate up to on track in strong currents or other dif? cult ocean condi- 8 different sensor
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 13nyone familiar with glider hardware options integrated for a broad Glider answers that need,” said Shea autonomous underwater ve- range of missions. Quinn, Slocum Glider Product Line hicles (AUVs) is certainly “As the use of Slocum Gliders grew, Manager at TWR. A familiar with the popular- so did
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47MARKETPLACE Products & Services www.MaritimeEquipment.com Powering the fleet for 60 years! HYDRAULIC NOISE, SHOCK AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSOR Noise, Shock, VibraO on & PulsaO on in Quiet, Smooth Flow Out Oil Bladder Nitrogen (blue) Manufactured by MER
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43, ship ages, routes and services.” CII, or as EU standards evolve to sup- What is also already known is that all port FuelEU maritime requirements to Integrated for Sustainability the solutions proposed to advance mari- have 90 percent of pier sides in ports A member of technical committees time decarbonization
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41to bined with a global shortage of experi- It can also help shipping companies increase crew welfare. enced of? cers and crew, we anticipate that integrated ship situational awareness technology will be a mandatory require- ment from the IMO by 2030. Before that will come class notations and voluntary
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38.-Central America trade connecting U.S. markets to Nicaragua, Hon- duras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Each ship will feature 300 Image courtesy HRDD refrigerated unit plugs. The four Avance-class ships are named after national birds, archaeological sites and lakes in Central lassNK granted its “SCCS-Full”
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35Simulators are becoming as interconnected as onboard sys- size training materials, including micro-learning videos, gam- tems. Kongsberg Digital has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill ing apps, VR programs and online mentoring. detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation- “These digital methods are
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34scenarios, but zooming in, the industry is now working on more speci? c targets. By Wendy Laursen Image above: Kongsberg Digital has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation-based training of offshore professionals at Equinor. 34 Maritime Reporter
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32vessel has a 400t main crane featur- can be stacked in multiple layers for delivery to the marshal- ing NOV’s knuckle boom design which features integrated 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (18-33).indd 32 4/5/2024 8:29:20 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 25(DMO). MSC currently has 140 ships globally, including ships age of our ships are 40 years old or older and need to be that are government owned and operated ships, government replaced. We’re talking all the way from steam to diesel and some gas turbines. The commercial world doesn’t use owned and contract
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea