The search for Malaysia Airlines plane is entering a new phase.
In the first phase of the search for the vanished MH370 was used three autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) from Kongsberg Maritime.
This summer, the search area has been narrowed, and there is still a lot of Norwegian technology used in the search operation.
– The primary multibeam sonar used in the current survey is EM 302 Kongsberg Maritime, printer communications director Rob Luijnenburg in Fugro in an email to TU.
Dutch Fugro was awarded the contract to perform dypvannssøk by wreckage from MH370, ie B777-200 aircraft from Malaysia Airlines who disappeared five months ago.
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have mapped two-thirds
After a new exploration area was set up in late May (see map), it has been the effort to map the seabed in that area.
This work is carried out by Fugro Equator and Chinese Zhu Kezhen which has the support of the Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 and the Malaysian navy vessel Bunga Mas 6.
Malaysia is about to send a further exploration vessel, KD Mutiara , south to help with the mapping of the so-called høyprioritetsområdet which is 60,450 square kilometers.
batytmetriske work is scheduled to be completed in September.
Thursday joined the Australian AIBN for transport (ATSB), head of exploration operation, the 43,000 square kilometers is now mapped.
In parallel, thus starting new search for the plane. This work will be carried out by Fugro Discovery, which is now on its way from England towards Perth.
Also Fugro Equator, which is currently working on bathymetry, shall assist the search as soon as this is done.
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Considering Hugin
– In addition to the Kongsberg sonar as used, all of our vessels equipped with Starfix and Seastar Differential GNSS which are mostly derived from Fugro Survey in Bergen and Fugro Seastar in Oslo, said Luijnenburg.
During the upcoming seek work is not used Norwegian sensors, but the company uses Kongsberg HiPAP 101 for underwater navigation.
– If at a later date will be prompted to insert a AUV in the search, it is likely that this is obtained from our fleet of Kongsberg Hugin systems, type Fugro director.
ATSB emphasizes that the complexity of the search operation can hardly be underestimated. The Commission estimates that the work could take as much as twelve months.
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