C&C thinks deep with new AUV

The company said it had recently completed sea trials of the new AUV with Norway's Kongsberg Marine and had installed an "Advanced Survey Payload" enabling it undertake deep-water survey work.

C&C said it planned to use the C-Surveyor III, together with the C-Surveyor II, in the Gulf of Mexico.

The C-Surveyor III is capable of operating at depths of up to 4500 metres, and includes a multibeam echosounder, chirp sidescan sonar, chirp sub-bottom profiler and a methane detector, the company said.

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