Pick your kit, operate at any depth

Deck Topside is the robust and versatile solution for commanding and controlling your Sonardyne acoustic release or initiation transponders, empowering you to navigate your operations with confidence and efficiency. The ability to support both types of transponder ensures you have the flexibility to meet your specific needs, whether it’s releasing underwater equipment or initiating mine neutralisation operations.

Deck Topside is supplied with cabled Nano dunker transceivers to enable command and control at any water depth and over any range. They simply plug into the transceiver port on the side of Deck Topside and are suspended over the side of your vessel. Ten metres of cable are supplied as standard with a 20-metre extension cable also available.

Depending on which RT6 you have, there are different deck kits available, from shallow to deep. The shallow water deck kit is a workhorse for your operations requiring ranges of less than 1, 000 m, so perfect with RT 6-1000. For operations deeper than this, our mid water and deep water deck kits are perfect. Use the mid water kit with RT 6-3000.The deep water deck kit utilises our long range, LMF-frequency band for use with RT 6 HD.

Tough and simple to use all day long

Deck Topside is completely portable and perfectly at home working in harsh marine environments.

It features a high brightness, full colour 7-inch resistive touch screen display and an easy-to-use user interface (UI) which allow a host of parameters to be set, including environmental. The unit is IP67 rated when closed and IP66 when open and being operated.

Power up and choose which mode you want Deck Topside to work in; RT 6 or IT 6. The UIs are easy to use and require no special knowledge of underwater acoustics. As touch screens are not suitable for every weather or stage of a marine operation, physical buttons are used for critical tasks such as arming, initiating and releasing.

Power comes from an 12/24 V dc external input, and for those situations when you’re operating from a vessel with no external power, a Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery provides up to 8 hours of continuous use.

After a successful operation, you can download system logfiles and operational reports. Deck Topside can export a complete set of activity logs for all activities, and a PDF report for releases.

Futureproof your investment with expandable capabilities

Deck Topside has been engineered to allow the addition of future features and developments via in-field software upgrades, protecting your investment in Sonardyne underwater technology.

At a glance

• Provides full configuration, testing and control of all RT 6s and IT 6
• Use it in the workshop, back-deck or from a small boat
• Engineered using industry standard ruggedised case; IP67 rated
• Rechargeable battery provides 8 hours of use; supports external power input
• 7-inch full colour touchscreen display; daylight readable
• Physical buttons for safety critical operational sequences
• Supplied with 10 m cabled Nano dunker
• Portable, rugged, secure