Services
With 25 years experience designing smart hydrophones, data loggers and acoustic recorders, Ocean Sonics’ team of engineers and multi-skilled personnel can help you accomplish your underwater sound needs.
Our offshore technicians and engineers are fully qualified and offshore safety certified.
To ensure our smart hydrophone systems are the best suited option, we provide services to support your project from beginning to end.
Training
Ocean Sonics is dedicated to your success. We want to ensure that when you purchase or rent an Ocean Sonics product, you understand how to utilize your new product to the best of its abilities. Therefore every purchase or rental comes with a free training session from Ocean Sonics.
Field Training and Services
Ocean Sonics offers field training services. Our staff will travel to you, equipped with the knowledge and experience to help deploy your systems and ensure your deployment is operating to its greatest potential and collecting the current data at the highest possible quality.
Equipment Services
Ocean Sonics offers many services for our equipment, including but not limited to: Calibrations, Repairs, Upgrades. All icListen Smart Hydrophones are pre-calibrated by our engineers at our facility in Nova Scotia before shipment.
Complete System Designs
Ocean Sonics helps you to build the correct system for your project. We work with you to design the system you need to reach your data collection goals.
Data Processing and Report Writing
Ocean Sonics provides comprehensive data processing services. Whether you would simply like to apply triggers for event detection or you require a full report and analysis of your data, the Ocean Sonics team can assist you in your data processing needs.
“Ocean Networks Canada performed a wide range of tests on the hydrophones prior to deployment to verify the manufacturer’s specifications. The hydrophone instruments met all the manufacturer’s specifications and were easy to use. Both models satisfy our requirements for dynamic range, sensitivity and, most importantly, reliability. When coupled with the fast and friendly customer support we have received, these LF and HF hydrophones are a good choice for our ocean observatory.”
Tom Dakin Sensor and Technology Business Development Officer and Resident Ocean Acoustician Ocean Networks Canada
“We have been working with Ocean Sonics in our technology demonstration program since the first prototypes. Our science users have been very impressed with the very high quality data sets. Ocean Networks Canada is expanding our hydrophone network with Ocean Sonic icListen HF smart hydrophones across our observatory including new sites across coastal BC, as part of the Smart Oceans™ program. The compact size, Ethernet interface, high reliability and exceptional performance make these systems ideal for ocean observing applications such as mammal classification, vessel and ambient noise studies.”
Scott McLean Director(Former) Ocean Networks Canada
“I have used many different hydrophones on different systems, but these icListen hydrophones are the best I’ve seen in many years. They’re calibrated to very low frequencies where I’ve never been able to get reliable data.”
Ross Chapman Professor Emeritus University of Victoria
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Scaled Nodes (RSN) had requirements for very broadband hydrophones with good noise floor characteristics and a wide dynamic range. The icListen HF hydrophones satisfied these requirements at a reasonable cost. The hydrophones were quite easy to use out of the box, and easily passed our intensive First Article tests centered on assuring any instrument will not interfere with or corrode any other instrument. Customer support has been quite good, with very detailed questions answered quickly and accurately.
Skip Denny Principal Ocean Engineer, RSN Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington.
