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Applied Acoustics Grows Its Team of Engineers

is using his 30 years of technical expertise to improve the quality and build of the latest sparker systems.“These colleagues will play a pivotal role in helping us to grow the business both in terms of developing new technologies and moving into different markets and geographical areas,” Neil MacDonald, Technical Manager of Applied Acoustics.The company said it is seeking to employ further engineers particularly with electronic design and software skills to work with them on some ambitious projects.“We’ve got great talent in the form of our new graduate alongside two experienced

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Mediterranean Excursion for Applied Acoustics’ Deep Tow Sparker

, at a distance up to 1km from the SOCIB research vessel.    “We achieved greater than 60m penetration and with increased data resolution, up to 15cms, the sub-bottom profiling results were excellent across the full-working depth range of the DTS-500,” stated Project Leader, Neil MacDonald.   “We also deployed multiple positioning beacons, the new Applied Acoustics’ new 1100 Series, on both the tow-cable and towfish and used the recently launched Nexus 2 USBL positioning system with similar excellent results,” he added.   Designed for high and ultra-high

AAE Announces Restructuring Push

in use.   The three trading companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of the AAE Technologies Group and will remain under the ownership of AAE’s founder and current directors.  In addition to the reorganized trading arrangements of company, Group Chairman Adam Darling welcomes Neil MacDonald and Gavin Willoughby as directors of the subsidiary businesses, both long term employees of Applied Acoustics with over 25 years of combined experience with the company

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Applied Acoustics’ Double Launch at Ocean Business

;We’ve designed this new system to obtain vital positioning data for a multitude of everyday subsea operations that include running ocean bottom seismic cables, the position of seismic nodes, and metocean strings like tide gauges and current profilers,“ explained Technical Manager Neil MacDonald, “but with such an easy-to-use, flexible arrangement, intuitive software and a remarkable positioning performance, there are endless applications.” Also on the stand will be new units from the company’s Fatboy and Seabed range of beacons now with Spread Spectrum technology

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