SeaTrepid International LLC Orders Six Hugin AUV Systems

Monday 25 January 2016

Kongsberg Maritime AS has announced the sale of 6 HUGIN AUV Systems. The vehicles will be operated by SeaTrepid International LLC. of Louisiana, USA and supported by Deep Ocean Search Limited.

The AUVs are rated to 6000 metres. They have a comprehensive sensor suite including triple frequency sidescan sonar, KONGSBERG's de facto industry standard EM2040 multibeam echosounder, sub-bottom profiler and a colour camera. The vehicles are also equipped with a magnetometer mounted inside the AUV body.

All six SeaTrepid HUGIN AUVs are fitted with swappable Lithium polymer batteries and can achieve mission durations of more than 60 hours with payload sensors operating. They will be supplied with a comprehensive topside spread including launch and recovery containers, operations room containers and KONGSBERG HiPAP USBL systems for supervised operations.

Source: Kongsberg Maritime AS