The mid-life refit of French research vessel L’Europe includes the installation on board of a Simrad ME70 scientific multibeam echo sounder, and Ifremer representatives visited the Kongsberg Maritime Subsea headquarters at Horten in Norway at the end of last year for the successful factory acceptance test of Ifremer’s second Simrad ME70 scientific multibeam echosounder.

 

Ifremer is assigned the task of contributing to the knowledge of oceans and their resources, and the acquisition of the multibeam echo sounder was carried out to strengthen this work in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

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