With the proliferation of subsea communication and power cables being laid in the oceans of the world, it is becoming increasingly important to have an accurate cable location system so that installation, burial, survey, recovery and repair is performed as efficiently and economical as possible. The TSS350 Cable Survey System has been developed to meet this requirement in a compact, modular system that provides advanced features not previously available in such cable location systems. By detecting the magnetic fields developed by an induced tone, the TSS350 can locate, fault find and survey one cable among other cables and subsea pipelines and structures at all burial depths. The system is typically mounted on an ROV or tracked vehicle and provides real time data to the operator on the vessel.

The TSS340 Pipe Tracker is designed to provide accurate position and depth of cover data, in real time from the ROV mounted system. Using pulse induction technology the system can detect the presence of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, making the system ideal for locating carbon and stainless steel pipelines, armoured and non-armoured cables and applications that require the detection of metals.

The TSS Dual Track is a combination unit using the passive TSS340 pulse induction and active TSS350 tone detection technology. This system is suitable for survey operations where the tone may be lost or unavailable on a target cable and the operator can switch to the passive mode without having to recover the ROV.