The Simrad ES70 echo sounder has received the Innovation Award 2009 at the International Sea Technologies Exhibition and Brokerage Event (ITECH MER) in Lorient, France, which took place from October 22 to 24, 2009.
The ES70 was selected for the award due to a number of new innovations introduced by Simrad for easier operation and improved performance.
A key factor is its flexibility, which ensures suitability for all types of professional fishing. It can operate with various different transceivers and transducers, from 18kHz up to 333kHz as single beam or split beam, depending on the depth requirements.
"The ES70 is a modular system that allows the user to start with a single beam, single frequency and extend to a multi frequency echo sounder using single or split beam transducers," Pierre Palud of Simrad, France, said.
"It allows users to choose from a wide variety of software functions for transducers and transceivers, depending on what kind of fishing it is used for."
The new Simrad ES70 echo sounder is an evolution of the Simrad ES60 echo sounder. One of the key changes that will ensure its ability to enhance catch efficiency.
The Simrad ES70 also features an innovative, efficient and easy to use new zoom function, which allows the use of an extended area to study a bank of pelagic fish or an area near the sea floor. Bottom hardness information also allows the study of bottom conditions where the ES70 measures reflectivity and calculates hardness on a scale of 1 to 100. All of this information can then be exported to a navigation chart plotter.
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