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Sonardyne supports safer shipping with Vigilant Forward Looking Sonar

Maritime technology specialist Sonardyne International Ltd. has introduced a collision avoidance capability for naval, commercial, passenger and private vessels with its new Vigilant forward looking sonar (FLS). Providing live and past vessel track, detailed 3D bathymetry out to 600 m and automated warnings of unseen collision hazards on and beneath the waterline out to 1.5 …

Monitoring the restless earth – underwater

On land, rapid events like landslides and earthquakes are easily measured with satellite imagery, while precise measurement of much slower tectonic plate movements using space geodesy techniques have become routine. Unfortunately, neither of these techniques work underwater, which has meant that such measurements have stopped at the waterline – until now. In a three-part blog, …

Towed multi-aperture sonar for MCM – Project Equinox emerges from the shadows

Ioseba Tena  – Global Business Manager – Defence & Robotics When I started working at Sonardyne International a few short years ago, we were known as a leading manufacturer of subsea instrumentation – primarily working within the offshore sector. My role was to look at how our instruments could add value to vehicle platforms, which …

Sonardyne reveals latest seabed-to-shore subsea technologies

Underwater technology provider Sonardyne International Ltd. has announced important new additions to its 2020 product line-up, all designed to play a role in delivering users’ data from the seabed to the shore.   With a focus on compact yet highly capable unmanned and vessel instruments, Sonardyne has unveiled SPRINT-Nav Mini, the most compact guidance and …

Sonardyne International appoints Graham Brown as new Managing Director

Leading marine technology provider Sonardyne International Ltd. has announced Graham Brown as its new Managing Director. Graham, who takes over the role from John Ramsden on April 1, has served on Sonardyne International’s board from 2008, most recently as Sales and Marketing Director and Deputy Managing Director. John, who has been Sonardyne International’s Managing Director …

Over-the-horizon UUV or ROV ops? There’s a USV for that.

One of the early promises made by the advent of unmanned or autonomous underwater vehicle (UUV/AUV) systems was a world free of the need for costly surface support vessels. It’s a promise these vehicles have struggled to meet. They have delivered value – in other ways. They offer a stable platform close to the seabed …

Welcome to the Midnight Zone; where underwater positioning is paramount

A pioneering marine research expedition into one of the most bio-diverse regions on the planet will start in the Indian Ocean later this month. Using a highly advanced manned submersible, the mission will explore the ‘Midnight Zone’; a region between 1,000-4,000 m deep beneath the waves. At this depth, there is no light. That means …

Sonardyne instruments to support pioneering tsunami research

High-accuracy, long-endurance underwater instrumentation from Sonardyne Inc. is set to play a major role in helping scientists across the US better understand and possibly predict earthquake and tsunami risk at a far greater scale than has been possible before. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, through a US$5.5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), …

Dynamic subsea leak detection – fast response, wide-area coverage, on demand

Stephen Auld – Global Business Manager – Subsea Asset Monitoring As I discussed in my previous blog, while operators do take care to prevent leaks from occurring, they can and do happen. When they do, they reach the public domain with the understandable and expected negative response and the resulting financial consequences on the companies …