SiS Sensoren Instrumente Systeme GmbH
New Product Family: Marine Recovery Beacons (MRB)
Surfaced ROVs or AUVs, floating buoys and drifting marine platforms may be found more easily by the research vessel's recovery team when equipped with SiS Marine Recovery Beacons. This family of beacons also helps the finding of deep-sea landers and underwater moorings that may have surfaced inadvertently or have been released acoustically on a specific command. With the Marine Recovery Beacon series of products, one has the means to recover one's instruments at any time under any environmental circumstances.
The new family consists of the following:
Strobe Light Beacon SLB 6000
- Flashes by night to show the position of the system
- Flash rate, intensity and burst mode adjustable
- Range of 4 nautical miles at transmissivity 0.74
GPS Radio Beacon GRB 6000
- Takes the system's position from GPS fixes
- Transmits these by VHF radio to the search vessel
- The receiver on-board the ship is a commercially available PDA
ARGOS Radio Beacon ARB 6000
- Sends a signal to the user via a satellite that the system has popped up
- Allows system's position fixes by the ARGOS system or by a modified receiver of the GRB type
The common features of Marine Recovery Beacons are:
- Titanium housing
- Double axial Kantseals or O-ring seals
- All mechanics calculated with 50% extra safety
- Small housing (60 mm diameter, 530 mm length)
- More than two years mooring life
- Powered by 3 D-type cells of any chemistry
- Integrated power switch
- Transmission time more than 4 weeks depending on battery type
- Water depth of 6000 metres standard
- Triggered by pressure switch
- Trigger threshold variable (standard 30 metres)
- Antenna and strobe cap construction waterproof up to 6000 m
- Separate antennas and strobe caps as option
SiS GmbH reserves the right to change specifications without prior notice.