Surveyor 2 AUV Begins Gulf Of Mexico Projects

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Photo of the C-Surveyor II AUV.

Lafayette LA (SPX) Sep 16, 2005
C & C Technologies' second deepwater AUV, C-Surveyor II, recently began field operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The C-Surveyor II vehicle was initially delivered to C & C's corporate headquarters in Lafayette, Louisiana on June 3, 2005.

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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Dartmouth Researchers Build World's Smallest Mobile Robot

Dartmouth NH (SPX) Sep 15, 2005
In a world where "supersize" has entered the lexicon, there are some things getting smaller, like cell phones and laptops. Dartmouth researchers have contributed to the miniaturizing trend by creating the world's smallest untethered, controllable robot.

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