The OSIL MiniBAT FW100 is an extremely lightweight towed instrumentation platform designed for use with a wide variety of data collection instruments. It provides an extremely flexible profiling system for use in estuaries, lakes, rivers, and coastal areas.

The MiniBAT FW100 is easily deployed by one person from virtually any size of vessel and performs at a manually adjusted depth below the surface or above the seabed from 2 depths down to 100 metres. Suggested towing speeds are in the range of 1 to 20 knots and the typical speeds for the average field survey are 5 to 20 knots.

The basic system consists of the MiniBAT FW100 tow body with user adjustable fixed wings. The MiniBAT FW100 tow cable has eight conductors for user instrumentation.

Features:

Flexible mounting of existing instrumentation

Easy towing with a 5 to 10 meter power boat

Operational depth – surface to 100 meters

Profiling at speeds up to 20 knots

Basic depth stability: < 1 meter

GPS data recorded (optional)