Kongsberg's APOS Survey Installed on Bibby Offshore Vessel

Kongsberg Maritime Ltd, the U.K. division of Kongsberg Maritime, has completed its first ever APOS Survey installation on Bibby Offshore’s long term charter vessel, the Olympic Bibby.

Launched this December, the new APOS Survey operator station enables surveyors to leverage the power of Kongsberg Maritime’s HiPAP High Precision Acoustic Positioning system, to deliver accurate survey results simultaneously, while the HIPAP is still utilized as a DP position reference.

With state-of-the-art new generation of positioning software for flexible, cost effective subsea survey and construction operations, APOS Survey station offers full LBL and SSBL, quicker mobilization times and is designed for both permanent and temporary installation on vessels, negating the mobilization cost and time associated with over the side portable transducers.

APOS Survey communicates directly with the HiPAP transceiver, which enables the surveyor to operate independently of the bridge. Acoustic interrogations are interleaved or run simultaneously with the DP system updates, without making changes to the vessel’s APOS software or installation parameters. With APOS Survey, the surveyor can interface local survey grade sensors, IMU, gyro and GNSS, set up lever arms and load sound velocity profiles independent of the vessel, thus unlocking the full potential of HiPAP for survey operations.