Slovenian Navy Chooses Sonardyne Sentinel Diver Detection Sonar

March 26, 2009 - PRLog -- The contract also includes the provision of the new Sonardyne underwater loudhailer called ‘Scylla’. This option for a Sentinel system allows users to broadcast underwater warning messages to deter submerged intruders once they have been detected.  

           With support from NATO, the Slovenian Navy evaluated numerous diver detection technologies last summer (2008). During the trials, Slovenian Navy divers attempted to evade or deceive the ‘invisible’ underwater protective zone created by the Sentinel system which demonstrated that despite its relatively small size, weight and cost, its performance was superior to other systems.

           Following its introduction, Sentinel has shown a 100 per cent success rate in detecting targets at long ranges and in differentiating between divers, surface swimmers and non-threats such as pleasure craft, large fish and cetaceans. This high level of performance is attributed to the fact that unlike other commercially available diver detection systems, Sentinel is a not a hybrid of an existing sonar. It has been specifically designed by Sonardyne to meet the challenge of tracking underwater targets reliably and cost-effectively.

           The Sentinel sonar head is only 30cm in diameter, 40cm high and weighs just 35kg (77lbs) which makes it compact and easily deployed from a vessel or harbour environment. Capable of providing 360 degrees of sonar coverage, it can operate as a stand-alone portable system or configured with multiple sonar heads to be networked together so that very wide areas, such as ports and water-front locations can be monitored. The new system features advanced software for target detection, classification and tracking that removes the need for continuous manual operation. Threat warnings received by the system’s control facility can be automatically forwarded by text message, internet or pre-recorded voice message to key personnel anywhere in the world.  

           Sonardyne International Ltd is recognised as a world leader in the design and manufacture of subsea acoustic navigation, communication and telemetry systems for use by the military, offshore oil and gas industries and the international scientific community. The company has headquarters in Yateley, England, with additional facilities in the Far East, USA and South America.  Visit: www.sonardyne.com.

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The Sonardyne head office is in Yateley, Hampshire, UK with regional operating subsidiaries in Singapore, Houston, Aberdeen and Brazil. The company is a world leader in the design and manufacture of underwater acoustic positioning, inertial navigation, subsea communications and sonar technology systems for the offshore oil and gas, ocean scientific and maritime security industries.

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