Specifications
General
Length: | 7.0 meters (23.1 feet) |
Beam: | 2.6 meters (8.4 feet) |
Draft: | 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) surfaced |
Height: | 3.6 meters (11.6 feet) |
Operating Depth: | 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) |
Normal Dive Duration: | 6-10 hours |
Gross Weight: | 20 metric tons (40,000 pounds) |
Speed: | 0-2 knots (0-2.3 mph) |
Science Basket Payload: | 181.4 kilograms (400 pounds) |
Personnel Sphere Volume: | 4.8 cubic meters |
Personnel Complement: | 1 pilot, 2 observers |
Observation
- 5 viewports: 3 forward (17” diameter), 2 side (12” diameter)
- Overlapping fields of view
Electrical Power
- 2 banks of lead-acid batteries, each 120 V, 140 AH
Communication
- Redundant acoustic telephones (voice or code)
- Marine band (VHF) radio
- Sound-powered phone
- Digital data link through USBL/SMS
Imaging
- 2 Optim Premium 4K UHD video cameras with individual pan and tilt
- 2 Kongsberg OE14-522 HD pan/tilt/zoom cameras near viewports
- Additional situational cameras available
- Three 7” HD LCD flat panel displays for in-hull viewing
- 4K video recorders
- Hand-held digital camera for use in personnel sphere
Lighting
- 12 lighting channels, each 10A, fused at 80A total
- Multiple positionable LED lamps
- Situational and emergency lighting
- Down-looking survey lighting
- Lasers for optical size reference
Propulsion
- 7 thrusters
- Forward, reverse, lateral capability
- Auto heading, altitude, and depth
Vehicle Sensors
- Fiber-optic PHINS gyrocompass
- Redundant depth sensors
- Teledyne RDI Workhorse 600kHz Doppler velocity log
- Sonardyne AvTrak USBL transceiver
- GPS sensor
- Forward-looking Kongsberg obstacle-avoidance sonar
Navigation
- Dedicated in-hull navigation with touch screen display
- Bottom tracking Doppler velocity log
Manipulators/Sampling
- 2 Schilling Titan 4 manipulators with 7 degrees of freedom on swing arms
- ISE manipulator with 6 degrees of freedom
- 16 sq ft sample basket with 181 kg (400 lb) payload
- Free-ascent elevator with 90 kg (200 lb) payload
- Scientific sampling devices: water samplers, tube corers, bio boxes
Scientific Instrumentation Support
- Power: 12, 24 and 120 VDC switched circuits available
- Hydraulics: 6 available hydraulic circuits
- SeaBird SBE49 CTD
- Digital sensor interface
- Hard-wired sensor interface
- Integrated data system
- In-sphere laptop computers
- In-sphere SeaLog-specific iPads