Cuna on Discovery Channel

Cuna, one of the main Dutch dealers for Motorola in The Netherlands and developer of the CunaCC control room solution for critical communications, has played a modest but important role in a project that is regularly seen on Discovery Channel.

For the transportation of oil rig pillars from the construction site in eastern Russia to the oil rig in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, specialised Dutch sailor knowledge is required.

With three tugboats, very large pillars are dragged over the sea in order to to let them sink exactly at the point where a pipe from the seabed appears.

During this process, employees are at work on the seabed near the pillars. They constantly use their radios for the communication with the crew on board of the ships. In order to send radio signals 42 meters from the bottom of the sea to the tugboats, specialist radio knowledge is required. This is why Cuna was involved.

Cuna engineers developed a special antenna system and programmed the repeaters, so that the UHF signal in the pillars was converted into a VHF signal for the ships.

At the moment the equipment is packed and ready to be shipped, the point of no return is reached. Because, once everything is gone, there is no opportunity to change or repair the communication equipment.

Before the communication system was used, it was extensively tested by engineers in the Cuna technical department in presence of the project leader of the customer.

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Source: Cuna