Marine-Shallow water by | May 28, 2019 SAExploration’s nodes are typically deployed and recovered tethered to a high-strength synthetic rope (NOAR, Node- On-A-Rope) for handling efficiency purposes SAE OBN units consisting of 4-components (hydrophone + 3 orthogonal geophones) are deployed to record the minimum survey offset requirements Multiple specialized node handling vessels and/or multiple purposed-built source vessels can be incorporated into operations