SeaRobotics to build Lockheed Martin AUV

SeaRobotics has been selected by Lockheed Martin to build its commercial Marlin Mk3 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

Designed for deepwater commercial applications such as pipeline inspection, the Marlin has a range of more than 100 kilometers, and up to 24 hours endurance, according to a Lockheed Martin news release. It can operate as deep as 4,000 meters.

"The Marlin can be outfitted with sophisticated sensor packages including multi-beam, side scan, 3-D, sub-bottom profiler, and synthetic aperture sonars, as well as high resolution video, still photo, and laser profilers, enabling advanced autonomous data acquisition, processing, analysis and response," Lockheed said.

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