   BOT PRESS RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2002BROOKE OCEAN'S MOVING VESSEL PROFILER (MVP™) FAMILY KEEPING BUSY AROUND THE GLOBE Brooke Ocean Technology Ltd. (BOT) have recently delivered several MVP™ systems to the following organizations. The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) accepted the delivery of an MVP30™. This system is designed to operate from a small vessel and can collect a profile to a depth of 30 m at 12 knots or 50 m at 5 knots. The CHS report the "collection of forty sound velocity casts per day in support of multibeam survey work with a Simrad EM3000 on the Fraser River". They are very pleased with the improvements in multibeam survey efficiency. Bigelow Labs (Maine USA) accepted delivery of an MVP200™ which is installed aboard the passenger ferry SCOTIA PRINCE. The system is being used to collect 100 m casts at 18 knots. Dr. William Balch and his team are collecting CTD and fluorometry data during ferry crossings. DEEP OCEAN, a survey company based in Norway, are using an MVP300™ to support their multibeam survey operations and ROV survey work. With the MVP300™ they are able to collect CTD casts to 300 m at 12 knots and 1500 m at 5 knots. Plymouth Marine Lab/Southampton Oceanographic Center have accepted an MVP300™ for use in the Atlantic Meridional Transect Program. The system was recently used in the Indian Ocean to collect CTD, dissolved oxygen and fluorometry data. The MVP™ has recently become part of the UK national marine equipment pool.
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