Hydrographic Survey Equipment News

Credit: Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services

Subsea Europe, Cyprus Subsea Partner Up

survey sites will give our clients a more complete picture of their study regions and how they are changing.”Cyprus Subsea Managing Director, Dr. Daniel Hayes, added, “We recently decided to invest in increasing capacity for seafloor surveying and recognized that the complexity of hydrographic survey equipment combined with a lack of accessible expertise are holding back many organizations from collecting the data they need. In the same way our autonomous platforms help users get data painlessly, working with Subsea Europe will solve these problems.”According to the statement released

Photo: L3 ASV

C-Enduro Delivered to Royal Navy

to the Royal Navy. The C-Enduro will be used for military data gathering trials by the Mine countermeasures and Hydrographic Capability (MHC) program as the Navy seeks to exploit autonomous technology.The 4.8-meter autonomous vessel is equipped with 10 sensors combining scientific and hydrographic survey equipment. The vessel operates using L3 ASV’s proprietary control system, ASView, and is fitted with L3 ASV’s advanced autonomy package, ensuring situational awareness and smart path planning. ASView enables a range of autonomous control modes, including line following, station-keeping

(Photo: Tuco Marine Group)

Hydrographic Survey Boat Delivered to Nelleman Survey

through innovative solutions and weight reductions.”   The boat is equipped with bow thrusters, double VHF, 4kW radar, 12” multi-functional touchscreen, AIS, onboard video system with camera on both foredeck and aft, air suspended seats and a complete workstation for the hydrographic survey equipment.   The vessel is built from composite materials and is equipped with aluminum railings. Clever choice of materials contributes to the desired weight reductions and ensures low maintenance and superior strength. Thanks to the low weight and an inboard Volvo Penta diesel engine,

Atair II (Photo: MacGregor)

MacGregor Bags Equipment Order for German Research Vessel

Ocean Technology, MacGregor. "This cooperation not only means that our systems meet the needs of the operator, but ensures its safe and reliable operation.   "Our systems are based on proven technology and are customized to carefully handle a full range of sophisticated hydrographic survey equipment," he added

Atair II (Photo: Kongsberg Maritime)

Germany Chooses Kongsberg Research Ship Concept

free working deck offers space for laboratories and transport containers and an extensive diving equipment and diving Chamber are also included. For Atair II’s primary tasks of hydrographic survey and wreck search, Kongsberg will supply a substantial suite of the most sophisticated hydrographic survey equipment including multi/single beam echo sounders, sonar, sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler. Atair II will operate in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, conducting hydrographic surveys and wreck search operations in addition to marine environmental monitoring, as well as the technical

Photo: MacArtney

New Survey Equipment for Port of Hamburg

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has added its third integrated dual head multibeam survey system to its range of hydrographic survey equipment.   HPA conducts around 900 surveys per year in the port of Hamburg, and it uses its smallest survey vessel Deepenschriewer IV primarily for multibeam surveys for depth control and documenting in shallow water areas.   For this purpose, MBT, MacArtney Germany, has supplied, installed, and set to work a dual head multibeam echo sounder system that includes high-resolution multibeam echo sounder Teledyne RESON SeaBat T20-R, a Valeport SWiFT sound

Teledyne RESON T50-R Ultrahigh resolution Multibeam Echosounder with fully integrated Inertial Navigation System (Image: Seafloor Systems)

Seafloor Systems Inks Distribution Deal with Teledyne

applications for the energy, transportation, civil engineering, search and recovery, and oceanographic industries and more.   Seafloor Systems has been a distributor for Teledyne Odom/RESON for many years, and is known in the industry for providing turnkey singlebeam and multibeam hydrographic survey equipment and vehicles including the EchoBoat-ASV, featuring dual-DC motors for ease of control and redundancy, non-corrosive materials, an integral transducer well and multi-sensor payload capability. It allows the hydrographic surveyor to reliably and effectively tackle multibeam surveys in shallow

Photo: Seafloor Systems, Inc.

MTR100: Seafloor Systems, Inc.

Formed in 1999 by veteran U.S. Navy Hydrographer John Tamplin, Seafloor Systems provides a full spectrum of hydrographic survey equipment, software, personnel, training and support, specializing in the geophysical sector for survey companies worldwide. The firm designs and manufactures the HydroLite portable hydrographic survey system, the HyDrone-ASVand EchoBoat-ASV autonomously and remotely controlled survey platforms for unmanned hydrographic survey applications, and maintains the largest rental pool of multibeam echosounder equipment in the U.S.   Seafloor Systems provides custom hydrographic

Seafloor Adds Second SeaBat T50-P to Rental Pool

Systems is known for their turnkey singlebeam and multibeam hydrographic sonar systems, and maintains the largest multibeam echosounder rental pool in the U.S.A. The company offers a full range of rental equipment from a variety of manufacturers. The rental pool includes a variety of hydrographic survey equipment such as high-accuracy INS, magnetometers, motion sensors, sound velocity equipment, remotely and autonomously controlled vehicles, and more.    

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