Kongsberg Maritime has actually authorized a contract with the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue to create brand-new as well as cutting-edge maritime Search as well as Rescue (SAR) innovations.

The duo’s cooperation will certainly cover 5 principle advancement locations for SAR: maritime procedures, rescue procedures, search externally of the sea, undersea search as well as electronic options.

Through the arrangement, Kongsberg Maritime will certainly give the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue with accessibility to its recognized hydroacoustic systems for comprehensive screening as well as advancement on brand-new techniques to SAR.

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The systems consist of Kongsberg Maritime’s cutting-edge PulSAR finder, which can be hauled behind a rescue watercraft to check big locations of sea quickly, sending photos of the seabed as well as assisting scuba divers to browse straight to targets of rate of interest. The Society will certainly additionally check the SAR application of Kongsberg Maritime options for surveillance diving procedures.

“We want to ensure that people who are missing at sea and presumed lost are found more quickly,” states Rikke Lind, Secretary General of the Norwegian Society forSea Rescue “For the next of kin, it is important that presumed victims are found as quickly as possible. Living in uncertainty is an additional strain,” discussesSecretary General Rikke Lind “Sonar search must be much more accessible; we want to have a specialised team who can travel out with the sonar when needed.”

“With this cooperation, Kongsberg Maritime and the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue will test modern technologies to improve search and rescue and make it more effective,” discusses Bj ørn Jalving, Senior Vice President, Subsea atKongsberg Maritime “We are proud to be able to work together with the Society and contribute to its incredibly important work.”

Reference: kongsberg.com