OSIL Reports Rising Interest in the MiniBAT

Oceanographic systems engineering company OSIL (Ocean Scientific International Ltd) reports it is seeing increasing levels of enquiries for its towed instrumentation platform, the MiniBAT.

The MiniBAT is a lightweight system that is remotely operated from a topside control box and can be towed through the water column at fixed depths (or heights above the seabed), or set in an undulating pattern to obtain data readings throughout the water column.

The flexible profiling system has been designed for use with a wide variety of data collection instruments including side scan sonar, SV units, CTDs and multiparameter sondes, holding smaller units within the towbody itself, while larger payloads can be secured under the body of the unit in a specially designed protective cage.