Simrad prides itself on being close to its customers and whenever a need of the fishing industry is identified, Simrad is first with a solution.In fact,many of Simrad’s solutions remain unique to this day,such as the 90°vertical tilt Sonar,which was first seen in the early eighties. The 90°vertical tilt Sonar allows forward fish detection helping fishermen to find and track large schoals of fish. The first Sonar capable of this was the SX202,which proved one of Simrad’s biggest challenges to date.Commitment and hard work paid off though,and Simrad is still the only company to offer 90°vertical tilt Sonar today.Simrad has concentrated its efforts over the last few years on building a Sonar system that operates using PC based technology.The goal of which is to make Sonar systems upgradeable through software,and not via the usual hard- ware route.This is another first in Sonar technology from Simrad to add to the very long list.