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Kongsberg’s First HUGIN Endurance Passes Factory Acceptance Testing

Kongsberg Discovery has completed factory acceptance testing of its first long-range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) HUGIN Endurance.Sea trials began in September 2023, and over the last months, the Kongsberg Discovery Uncrewed Platforms team has put HUGIN Endurance through its paces, verifying and refining all system capabilities. Sea trials culminated in March 2024 with a successful demonstration of the AUV capabilities to the customer.The HUGIN Endurance program has attracted significant interest both from the defence sector and commercial operators. It can accommodate whatever kind of payload

All American Marine to Build Research Vessel for Cal Poly Humboldt

, stringent California requirements. Onboard the vessel, scientists and crew have comfortable live-aboard quarters, large state-of-the-art wet and dry lab spaces, as well as a range of the latest oceanographic equipment with which to conduct a variety of missions. It will be outfitted with a Kongsberg ADCP electronics suite augmented by a fixed WASSP multibeam system.Ron Wille, All American Marine President & COO, said, “All American Marine remains on the leading edge of manufacturing techniques and is an industry innovator, merging the latest technology into a functional and proven

From left: Camilla Kiss, EVP Finance Kongsberg Discovery – Stene Førsund EVP Sales and Marketing, Kongsberg Discovery – Trond F. Crantz, CEO Argeo – Atle Gran, Senior Sales Manager, Kongsberg Discovery - Kenneth Mitsem, General Manager, CSI Nordics AS.

Argeo Inks Pact with CSI for Second HUGIN Superior AUV

Argeo Subsea, CSI Nordics and Kongsberg Discovery signed a three-party Certificate of Delivery and Acceptance for a new HUGIN Superior AUV. The agreement supports Argeo’s fleet expansion plans, as it aims to build the world’s most advanced AUV fleet, with seven high specification units. Argeo already has one HUGIN Superior in service.CSI Nordics, a subsidiary of CSI Leasing, one of the largest independent equipment leasing companies in the world, will purchase the unit from Kongsberg Discovery, entering into a long-term leasing agreement with Argeo.Argeo CEO Trond Crantz says the deal

Unique partnership: Chris Blake, Vice President Survey, Unique Group; Martin Wien Fjell, President, Kongsberg Discovery; Sahil Gandhi, CEO Unique Group; Che Keong Lee, Senior Sales Manager, Kongsberg Discovery. Image courtesy Kongsberg Discovery

Unique Group Inks $1.7m Deal with Kongsberg Discovery

Unique Group signed a contract with Kongsberg Discovery for $1.7m of advanced seabed mapping and compact acoustic positioning technology for the APAC region.The agreement, for the delivery of cNODE Transponders, µPAP SSBL systems and the recently launched EM2042 multibeam echo sounder (MBES), allows Unique to boost its subsea equipment rental pool.The order, confirmed at Oceanology International in London, will swell the capacity of Unique’s Singapore base, giving customers in South East Asia fresh access to the calibration free µPAP SSBL systems and the lightweight, robust and

[L to R]: Jan Erik Faugstadmo, VP Positioning and Communication, Kongsberg Discovery; Donizeti Carneiro, Commercial Director, Corcovado; Spencer Collins, VP Sales Underwater Positioning, Kongsberg Discovery. image courtesy Kongsberg Discovery

Kongsberg Discovery Banks Corcovado Geosub Deal

Corcovado Geosub Ltda signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Kongsberg Discovery for advanced seabed monitoring equipment.The agreement, for the delivery of cNODE Sensor Logging Transponders, will allow Corcovado to conduct long-term environmental monitoring for seabed horizontal and vertical displacement during both carbon capture & storage and oil & gas recovery, within the Brazilian market.Corcovado Geosub is a specialist Brazilian supplier of Survey, ROV and AUV services, has an established relationship with Kongsberg Discovery, having conducted high resolution mapping of significant

Kongsberg Discovery Launches HiPOS – HiPAP Positioning Software

Kongsberg Discovery has launched a new software solution to enable remote operations of HiPAP and µPAP SSBL acoustic positioning systems, for both crewed and uncrewed survey vessels.Launched at Oceanology International in London, HiPOS – HiPAP Positioning Software for Remote Operations bridges the gap between onshore teams and vessels, allowing shore-based surveyors in remote operations control centres to operate the SSBL system with the same functionality as being offshore. Remote operations reduce HSE risk, with fewer personnel offshore, while also enabling lower operational carbon

Kongsberg Discovery Launches Seapath 385 Navigation System

Kongsberg Discovery is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its inertial navigation product portfolio with the release of Seapath® 385, a system combining new hardware and advanced navigation algorithms to unlock optimal precision for hydrographic surveying.Seapath 385 combines inertial technology and processing algorithms with multi-frequency GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, QZSS and geostationary satellite signals. The system integrates raw inertial sensor data either from Kongsberg Discovery’s high performance MGC® (Motion Gyro Compass) or MRU (Motion Reference Unit), together with

EM 304 MBES data recorded when every other ping is used for sub-bottom. Sub-bottom pings by EM®SBP do not interfere with the bathymetry (Image: Kongsberg Discovery)

Kongsberg Discovery Unveils Sub-Bottom Profiling Tool for Proprietary Echo Sounders

Norwegian ocean science technology provider Kongsberg Discovery has introduced EM®SBP software system, which offers sub-bottom profiling capability for Kongsberg's deep-water multi beam echo sounder (MBES) systems EM 124 and EM 304, without the need for additional hardware.A sub-bottom profiling system complements MBES surveys tailored to map the seabed and sub-seafloor.Gathering sub-bottom data is necessary to understand sediment thickness and distribution, as well as for detecting buried objects or infrastructure, such as boulders or pipelines.A sub-bottom signal must have specific properties

Renderings of forward pressure vessel and flooded wet bay that houses the EK80 electronics and transducers. (Image: Teledyne Marine)

Teledyne Integrating the Kongsberg EK80 WBT Mini Into Its Slocum Gliders

Teledyne Marine and Kongsberg Discovery are working together to integrate the Kongsberg EK80 WBT Mini Scientific echo sounder onto the Teledyne Slocum G3s Glider.The energy-efficient Kongsberg EK80 WBT Mini is a compact version of the Wide Band Transceiver (WBT), used by marine research vessels worldwide to identify and quantify a wide range of targets such as fish, plankton, bubbles, oil droplets, and physical oceanographic features such as turbulence.The Slocum Glider is the world’s most prolific autonomous gliding platform, a subsea vehicle that uses changes in buoyancy to efficiently move