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50 MTR March 2006 Products & Systems on Display at Oceanology International 2006 in London 4H FerryBox 4H FerryBox is an automated mon- itoring equipment. This system is an operational tool using ferries as car- riers and platforms for automated monitoring equip- ment. The system consists of a sea- water intake, a debubbling device, a main loop with sensors for tempera- ture, salinity, pH, oxygen, turbidity and algae abundance. The water of another loop is filtered for analysis of ammonium, nitrate/nitrite, o-phos- phate and silicate. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 1 Compass Probes from AOS EZ Compass Probe is a three axis Magnetometer-Compass with tilt and temperature compensation produced by Advanced Orientation Systems. The water-proof probe transmits heading, pitch, roll, magnetic field and temperature over RS232 or RS422 ports. Compass probe meas- ures tilt angles up to +-75 arcdeg and includes hard and two types of soft iron calibrations. The Probe includes all the required mathematics to accu- rately calculate vertical and horizontal directional vectors. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 3 Atlas Hydrographic Echosounders Atlas Hydrographic extended its Atlas Deso range of survey echosounders with the introduction of a new advanced three-channel sys- tem featuring a networked Windows interface with associated software, Atlas Deso 35. Available as a compact rack-mounted assembly for ease of installation or one that can be operat- ed direct from a PC, the system pro- vides full-size split- screen LCD displays of port and star- board measurements with internal data storage. Atlas Deso 35 very low frequency operation down to 3 kHz with a 3 kW power output enables enhanced sub-bottom penetration over depths down to 6,000m. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 4 Brooke Ocean Technology Brooke Ocean Technology's (BOT) Laser Optical Plankton Counter (LOPC) counts and provides shape profiles (for larger species) of zoo- plankton. The Free Fall Cone Electrometer (FFCPT) is used to determine seafloor sediment geotech- nical strength and sediment type. Both instruments can be deployed from the Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP). A new prod- uct, SeaCycler is an energy efficient subsurface winch and profiling sys- tem which can collect data profiles for up to 12 months. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 5 AUV from C&C C&C Technologies features the C- Surveyor I AUV rated for water depths up to 3,000 meters. The AUV's sensor payload included multibeam swath high resolution bathymetry and imagery, chirp side- scan sonar and sub- bottom profiler, differential GPS integrated with acoustic / inertial navigation and acoustic communica- tions. Since delivery in January 2001, C & C's C-Surveyor I AUV has com- pleted over 55,000 km of survey lines for a variety of worldwide clients. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 6 C-MAX Deck Units C-MAX introduces two new deck units for its CM2 Sidescan Sonar System. The Sonar Transceiver (STR), with a laptop linked to its USB interface, provides a compact and economical acquisition capabil- ity. As an alterna- tive, the C-Case all- in-one weather- The following is a compendium of information received from companies exhibiting at the Oi06 exhibition in London. Please use this as a handy guide in your search for breaking news and new technologies scheduled to debut at the exhi- bition. Oi06 MTR#2 (49-64).qxd 2/23/2006 4:42 PM Page 50
