Sonardyne wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation The seabed instruments which make up Sonardyne’s seabed deformation monitoring system sit wating to be deployed off the coast of Canada. Image credit: David Chadwell/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography A system developed by Sonardyne to study ocean floor movement was recognized with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, the highest award a UK business can receive. Developed over more than a decade, Sonardyne’s seabed deformation monitoring system is designed to provide engineers and scientists with new understanding of the seafloor and the physical processes that act upon it.