Passive sleds
Tailored & Customed
Our objective is to offer a proven design, scaled to your needs and tailored to your application.
Simple & Versatile
The concept is simple: a frame, to mount a variety of instruments, fitted with control fins, for stability and control. The result is far from trivial: a stable Fish that gets the job done!
“Passive” means profiling is achieved by paying cable in and out to reach the desired depth.
Below is a sample of custom passive sleds we delivered:
Aluminum sled, light and small
All plastic construction for the TSS440 Pipe tracking system
Sturdy stainless steel sleds designed to fly close to the sea-floor
Sturdy stainless steel sleds designed to fly close to the sea-floor
Performances of Passive sleds
- Stable & near-zero pitch and roll are key.
- Ease of deployment and retrieval is a must.
- Sturdy frames that can be abused, dropped, and slammed are essential.
Most designs are backed by scale-model testing. It simply takes the guesswork out of the equation and enables us to produce vehicles that have outstanding behaviors. Here is real data taken from the field:
