CSA Expands Underwater Mapping Capabilities with Shark Marine Technology
News Release
CSA International, Inc
March 9, 2012
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>CSA International, Inc. (CSA) has taken
delivery of Shark Marine Technologies, Inc.’s <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Navigator</I>, a self-contained, highly
portable, diver-directed mapping system with high accuracy positioning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accuracy and precision is critical in
creating quality data and mapping products, and CSA wanted a compact,
user-friendly system that could be used independently of any vessel-mounted
antennas, transceivers, or external hardware to quickly and precisely map a wide
range of underwater features.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
system uses a hard‑wired floating GPS, the internal Doppler Velocity Log, or
both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It contains an internal 128GB
hard drive, built-in navigation software, and a highly visible LCD screen
showing the diver tracks, targets, and notes made by the diver.<SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>Up until now, the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Navigator</I> has primarily been used by the
military for mine counter-measures and search and recovery operations, but it
has multiple applications, including environmental, salvage, and wreck
removal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CSA plans to use the<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Navigator</I> for a wide range of
applications, including habitat mapping and delineation, natural resource damage
assessments associated with vessel grounding and anchoring incidents, fish
habitat utilization surveys, pipeline and cable corridor clearance surveys,
locating underwater survey markers and pins for <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">in situ</I> environmental data collection,
and diver-directed hydrographic and bathymetric surveys.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The digital data, which can be linked
spatially with real-time video, generate high-quality, GIS-compatible, and
computer-aided drafting products.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>As a multi-disciplinary international
marine environmental consulting firm that provides services for the oil and gas
industry, engineering/surveying firms, the marine salvage industry, utility
companies, law firms, land development companies, and local, State, Federal, and
international government agencies, CSA needed a system that could be rapidly
deployed anywhere in the world with minimal support
equipment.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>For more information, visit </FONT><A
href="http://www.csaintl.com"><FONT face=Arial>www.csaintl.com</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial> and </FONT><A href="http://www.sharkmarine.com"><FONT
face=Arial>www.sharkmarine.com</FONT></A><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>CSA International, Inc. (CSA) has taken
delivery of Shark Marine Technologies, Inc.’s <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Navigator</I>, a self-contained, highly
portable, diver-directed mapping system with high accuracy positioning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Accuracy and precision is critical in
creating quality data and mapping products, and CSA wanted a compact,
user-friendly system that could be used independently of any vessel-mounted
antennas, transceivers, or external hardware to quickly and precisely map a wide
range of underwater features.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
system uses a hard‑wired floating GPS, the internal Doppler Velocity Log, or
both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It contains an internal 128GB
hard drive, built-in navigation software, and a highly visible LCD screen
showing the diver tracks, targets, and notes made by the diver.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>Up until now, the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Navigator</I> has primarily been used by the
military for mine counter-measures and search and recovery operations, but it
has multiple applications, including environmental, salvage, and wreck
removal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CSA plans to use the<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Navigator</I> for a wide range of
applications, including habitat mapping and delineation, natural resource damage
assessments associated with vessel grounding and anchoring incidents, fish
habitat utilization surveys, pipeline and cable corridor clearance surveys,
locating underwater survey markers and pins for <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">in situ</I> environmental data collection,
and diver-directed hydrographic and bathymetric surveys.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The digital data, which can be linked
spatially with real-time video, generate high-quality, GIS-compatible, and
computer-aided drafting products.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>As a multi-disciplinary international
marine environmental consulting firm that provides services for the oil and gas
industry, engineering/surveying firms, the marine salvage industry, utility
companies, law firms, land development companies, and local, State, Federal, and
international government agencies, CSA needed a system that could be rapidly
deployed anywhere in the world with minimal support
equipment.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>For more information, visit </FONT><A
href="http://www.csaintl.com"><FONT face=Arial>www.csaintl.com</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial> and </FONT><A href="http://www.sharkmarine.com"><FONT
face=Arial>www.sharkmarine.com</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>