Coda 3D Sonar product to be deployed in Middle East for underwater construction
  by: OilOnline
  Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Coda Octopus Group, Inc. announced an agreement with Van Oord to deliver Echoscopes™ for deployment on various underwater construction projects.

The Company said it had already delivered two of three units ordered by Van Oord for their Middle East operations to help crane operators to correctly position massive 10 ton blocks (Accropodes™) on the seabed 25 feet below the surface of the water. In trials, the Coda Echoscope™ enabled operators to interlock these specialized *Accropode™ blocks together a lot faster than conventional technology, and with considerably less risk as it removed the need to use divers to position the concrete blocks. The real-time 3D information provided by the Coda Echoscope™ allowed operators to work with an extremely high level of accuracy based on visualization to an extremely high resolution.

Jason Reid, Coda Octopus President and Chief Executive Officer, said that “These deployments open up a large and strategically important market for Coda Octopus as a commercial supplier to marine construction projects. We could not be more pleased to be working with Van Oord, which is one of the most highly respected dredging and marine contractors in the world.”

* Accropode is a registered trademark of SOGREAH.

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