Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2017
New shallow-water survey vessel unveiled
GeoSWath Technology | Norwegian technology group Kongsberg chose to launch its new GeoSwath compact survey vessel (CSV) at Ocean Business, held in Southampton at the beginning of April. The first-ever fully integrated survey vessel to be developed by the company, the GeoSwath CSV incorporates all of the equipment required to survey shallow coastal waters and inland waterways quickly and efficiently. The CSV is a powerful and manoeuvrable two-person catamaran equipped with the latest GeoSwath 4 shallow water multibeam system enabling effective bathymetry and side scan seabed mapping with accuracies that have been shown to exceed the IHO Standards for hydrographic surveys, the company claims. The vessel has a 30-hp outboard motor, a draught of 0.35m and a dry weight of just over 120 kg. It can operate in extreme environments and is light enough to be launched by one person.