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...

EdgeTech has delivered a Wideband Acoustic Mapping System (WAMS) to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The system provides for monitoring acoustic scattering from zooplankton, bubbles and turbulence in the ocean...

With the end of the Cold War in 1989, the military significance of the Arctic Ocean, where submarines of the superpowers had played ‘cat and mouse’ for decades, dramatically decreased....

For attaining high-resolution echo-prints, echosounding equipment must fulfil certain requirements regarding directivity, pulse length and other properties possible to achieve using non-linear acoustics. One important problem in sediment acoustics is...

Dredgers involved in mining for (precious) minerals and metals often work in an inland dredging pit. Dredgers float in a ‘wet environment’ where the surrounding water is used as transport...

Drifting echo-sounding buoys will soon provide bathymetric control in inaccessible areas of the oceans. The SSPARR (Seafloor Soundings in Polar and Remote Regions) buoy project holds great promise for providing...

The ninth Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase took place at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, from 26th to 27th September 2007. This conference/exhibition is one of the few (and in...

A C & C Technologies deepwater AUV, C-Surveyor II, has been delivered to corporate headquarters. C & C purchased the C-Surveyor II as a base vehicle in November 2004 and...

From 16-19 March, London’s new Exhibition Centre (ExCeL) was hosting the Oceanology International for the second time; offering ample, proficient and modern space in the Docklands, it saw a well...

Since the 1940s the use of an electrical spark to produce an underwater acoustic pulse has become an industry standard in the retrieval of sub-bottom profile data. Although conceptually simple,...