Sea-Bird Electronics' new Underwater Inductive Modem Module (UIMM) provides a quick way for system integrators and instrument/sensor manufacturers to adapt new or pre-existing RS-232 instruments, such as acoustic current meters, Doppler profilers, optical sensors, etc., for integration with real-time moorings using Sea-Bird's Inductive Modem (IM) telemetry.

LinkQuest Inc., San Diego, California, recently extended its popular FlowQuest acoustic current profiler line to include the small and lightweight FlowQuest 2000 system.

OceanServer Technology announced today that it was recently awarded a competitive procurement to deliver two lightweight multibeam sonar equipped AUV’s to the US Navy. These AUV’s are to be operationally tested and delivered to the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Command at the Stennis Space Center in September of 2010.

A pioneering deep-sea exploration robot-one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships-was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a research expedition off the coast of Chile. The 15-year-old Autonomous Benthic Explorer, affectionately nicknamed ABE, was launched late Thursday night and had reached the seafloor to begin its 222nd research dive when, in the early hours of Friday morning, all contact with the surface vessel abruptly ceased. All efforts to reestablish contact failed.

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) announced the charter of its M/V Anne Candies by the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA). BEA is the French air safety investigation agency responsible for investigating the loss of Air France Flight 447 (AF447) which had departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Paris, France on June 1, 2009 when it was inexplicably lost over the Atlantic Ocean.