MAD SEA  (Marine Autonomous Deep SEA Storm Monitor) 

Specialty Devices, Inc., working with the Gas Hydrate Research Consortium directed by the Mississippi Minerals Resource Institute, has developed and installed a Severe Storm Monitoring System. The MAD SEA Storm Monitor was installed in approximately 1,000 meters of water depth at Mississippi Canyon 118 in the Gulf of Mexico on June 12, 2006. The Storm Monitor is to be recovered in November of 2006 at the conclusion of the hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico.  The following web-page discusses this MAD SEA Storm Monitor and its capabilities. The Storm Monitor can also be used for marine mammal research and for monitoring man made acoustic signatures.

New! Survey Craft for Small Water Body

The DJB-1243 has been specifically designed to serve as a portable shallow draft work platform for sub-bottom profiling and core sampling of small or shallow water bodies. The DBJ is particularly useful for water bodies without launching ramps as it can be transported in the bed of a pickup truck and hand carried by two people for assembly at the water’s edge.  In the unassembled configuration the two hull sections stack on built in stacking points. 

Ole Miss Unveils Submarine Technology & Development Lab

The Specialty Devices, Inc. SSD is designed to be tethered to a ship and operated at up to 1,200 meters depth by remote control. The SSD is complete with four thrusters, a fiber optic communication system, an acoustic altimeter, cameras, lights and a robotic five-axis manipulator arm, ballast and trim control, additional manipulators and push core capability. It was designed to service NIUST's Seabed Technology Research Center's Sea Floor Observatory, which is 100 miles due south of Biloxi at 900 meters beneath the Gulf of Mexico in what's known as Mississippi Canyon 118. The SSD was presented at the opening of the NOAA/NIUST underwater vehicle center in Oxford MS.

Seabed Technology Research Center (STRC)

Station Survey Device (ROV) In Action