Subsea Robotics: Aquanauts, Hydronauts, Roll Out
others are also taking with many countries having different regulations), “so it has accommodation for four crew. That will allow it to travel about 160 nautical miles from a safe harbor with its crew.”The firm is also commercializing the manipulator it designed for Aquanaut as a standalone product to sell. “Building Aquanaut was like a moon shot engineering activity and there was a bunch of spin out technologies that are finding their own independent revenue streams, whether it's the software stack called Toolkit that runs everything or all the way down to just the manipulator
Swathe Offering the New Valeport SWiFT
; The new titanium profiler is easy to handle at 2kg and features charging via USB and a battery life of up to one week. Official distributors of Valeport products, Swathe Services now offer the SWiFT for rental as part of a survey package, integrating with all survey equipment, or as a standalone product. The SVP is suited for coastal, harbor and inland hydrographic surveys
Vessel Optimization Data Combines Ocean/Tidal Currents
different processes that cannot be accurately forecast beyond five to six days. Ms. Haire said Tidetech currently uses MERCATOR as its front-line ocean current model, a six-day ocean forecast at five nautical mile resolution, forced by ECMWF weather data. “We provide [MERCATOR] as a standalone product and also use it as a component of our Global Current integration. FOAM or HYCOM are second-line models providing redundancy. “Our science and data development team performs quality and reliability assessments on each model before issuing to customers. We also have a research project