Over a period of three months, C & C system engineers integrated proprietary hardware and software into this next generation AUV and mobilized it on its mother ship the R/V Northern Resolution.

The C-Surveyor II AUV is modeled after C & C's existing state-of-the-art AUV, C-Surveyor I, and includes numerous advancements.

Survey sensors onboard include a multibeam echosounder, chirp side scan sonar, chirp sub-bottom profiler, methane detector, CTD system, and an Edgetech DW106 sub-bottom profiler customized with narrow transmit and receive beams to permit significantly deeper seabed penetration.

In December 2005, C & C intends to upgrade the chirp side scan sonar to a new Dynamically Focused (DF) sidescan sonar system capable of providing five times more resolution than traditional systems.

Over the next three months, C & C will be performing various surveys for government agencies, as well as the oil and gas industry. These projects include block hazard, pipeline hazard and investigation surveys. C & C, the undisputed worldwide leader in commercial deepwater AUV operations, has the largest market share of any operator. Over the last five years, C & C has surveyed more than 45,000 line-km worldwide on 77 AUV projects.

C & C Technologies provides a variety of survey services including high accuracy Globally-corrected GPS services, marine construction surveys, high-resolution geophysical surveys and geotechnical surveys including full laboratory testing. For more information regarding C & C

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