Fugro N.v.

Michael Chivers

Anne Marie Chabert

Laurent Jaunet

David Holland

The invention provides an apparatus () for detecting objects that are submerged in a body of water or at least partly buried in a bed of the body of water. According to a first aspect, the apparatus comprises a support structure () adapted to be mounted to a remotely operated towed vehicle, ROTV (), a plurality of acoustic transducers () mounted to the support structure (), and at least one magnetic sensor () mounted to the support structure (). According to a second aspect, the apparatus comprises a remotely operated towed vehicle, ROTV (), the ROTV () comprising at least one control flap () operable to control a sub-surface depth of the ROTV () when the ROTV () is towed in the body of water, a support structure () mounted to the ROTV (), and a plurality of acoustic transducers () mounted to the support structure (). The invention further provides a method, a computer system, and a machine-readable medium.

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Leidschendam, Netherlands

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