Smart Hydrophone

Ocean Sonics icListen SC2-X2 / RB-9

We provide rental services for the OceanSonics icListen SC2-X2, which is a hydrophone specifically developed to support marine construction projects to measure sound due to activities such as pile driving and underwater / near water blasting.  Our rental includes the hydrophone, Launch Box, cable (20m or 50m), tablet (with Lucy software), and hard cases for transportation.    

In addition to the equipment rental, we can provide technical support to train your staff on the operation and data processing of the hydrophone data.  Alternatively, we can provide an acoustics technician to support your compliance program. 

Link to Product specifications - PDF 

Contact us for rates and availability. We have the ability to support short and long-term rentals.  

Portable Deployment

Our Hydrophones are setup, fully charged, and ready to use. Each Hydrophone setup comes in a hard case, all equipment is protected to endure the most demanding field operations.

Hydrophone Calibration

We can support the rental of equipment you require for ‘field calibration’ of your hydrophone for times this is required by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). We offer a rental of a pistonphone and sound level meter. The pistonphone is coupled to the hydrophone and plays a tone of known frequency (250 Hz) and known amplitude (e.g., 114 dB), and this is then recorded and measured on the hydrophone to confirm the levels recorded by the hydrophone.

A calibrated sound level meter is also included in our calibration package to confirm the output of the pistonphone in the field and also to measure the sound pressure level within the coupler.