C&C Technologies Orders Second Hugin AUV

C & C Technologies, Inc. has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to supply a second HUGIN deep water Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV).
The HUGIN AUV, rated to 4500-meters water depth, is 5.5 meters long and is powered by a state-of-the-art aluminum oxygen fuel cell battery, providing a mission endurance of more than 50 hours before resurfacing. The vehicle will be integrated with a variety of survey sensors, including:

• EM 2000 Multibeam echo sounder
  
• chirp side scan sonar
  
• chirp sub-bottom profiler
  
• conductivity, Temperature Depth system.

A sophisticated acoustic data link enables sub-sampled sonar data to be viewed in real time. Underwater positioning is performed using a HiPAP SSBL (Super Short Base Line) system integrated with Doppler speed log, an Inertial Navigation System, and for surface reference, dGPS. Acoustic links for vehicle control , reading of sensor data and emergency control,
are also part of the delivery.
The HUGIN AUV will be initially rated for 3000 metres, but will be upgraded to 4500 metres in the fall of 2005.