Subsea Services News – Page 28
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NewsMore dive time offered by new breathing system
A new diver breathing system promises six times more air than current available systems.
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UKHO award for New Zealand hydrographer
Adam Greenland, National Hydrographer of the governmental Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) organisation in Wellington, is this year’s recipient of the UK Hydrographic Office’s annual Alexander Dalrymple Award for outstanding contributions to world hydrography.
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Teesport commissions multibeam assembly
PD Ports Teesport, the UK’s third largest port and among the ten biggest in Western Europe catering annually for 5,000 vessels and over 56 million tonnes of domestic and international cargo, has commissioned a Teledyne Odom MB2 multibeam system for operations aboard its survey vessel, ‘Tees Sentinel’.
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NewsSubmersible GPS receiver
Modulus Technology of Great Yarmouth, UK, a division of AAE Technologies Group, has developed a purpose-designed submersible GPS receiver with integrated L1 and L2 antenna facilities, MiniPod 101G.
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NewsGavia AUV for Saudi Aramco
Teledyne Gavia of Iceland has completed delivery of a purpose-designed Gavia AUV to Saudi Aramco in Dhahran.
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NewsShipwreck artefacts showcase Europe’s maritime history
16th-century artefacts have been discovered in the wreckage of a Dutch trading ship off the coast of Kent, UK.
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NewsMH370 search could benefit scientific community
While the Indian Ocean search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 unfortunately has not shed light on what happened to the airliner, some good has come out of the process in that the scope and resolution of the data could be of great value to the scientific community.
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NewsHydrographic survey: technology advances the charts
Thirty years ago signified an era of tapes and magnetic disks with manufacturers plying their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders to expectant users seeking data loggers generating 100 soundings per second supported by 16 and 32-bit desktop computers with 20MB memories.
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World ECDIS Day
Hamburg’s Empire Riverside Hotel is the venue for this second international one-day event on Wednesday 20 September at which over 250 industry leaders are expected to be present.
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UKHO seeks two new frameworks
The UK Hydrographic Office, tasked with conducting surveys in various locations around the world, is looking to establish two new frameworks for provision of lidar and swathe sounding services which will enable it to fulfill in a timely manner obligations mainly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are either ...
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News£1m UXO survey contract for M² Subsea
Worldwide ROV services supplier M² Subsea, which maintains bases in Aberdeen and Houston, has been sub-contracted by Next Geosolutions of Italy under a contract worth over £1m to carry out detailed UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) removal surveys for the Nord Stream 2 twin pipeline system supplying natural gas from Russia to ...
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Multibeam sounders for new Japanese Coast Guard vessels
Denmark’s Teledyne Reson is to provide extensive multibeam equipment assemblies for two new hydrographic survey vessels under construction for the governmental Japan Coast Guard (JCG) organisation.
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World first remote ROV operations claimed
The world’s first commercial ROV operations conducted direct from a newly developed onshore dual control centre at its Norwegian headquarters in Bryne have begun, say subsea specialists IKM Subsea.
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NewsUnderwater drone autonomous launch and recovery
UK project partners recently demonstrated autonomous launch and recovery of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) from an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) as the closing part of their Innovate UK project.
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NewsDual basket LARS for Briggs
As part of its ongoing growth plans, UK-based Briggs Marine Contractors has made a six-figure investment into its diving division’s capabilities with the purchase of a dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS)
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NewsIMCA diving seminar and DMAC workshop
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and the Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) are staging a two-day IMCA Diving Seminar and DMAC Workshop in London, UK on 25-26 September 2017 that will present a number of topics of interest to the global offshore diving community.
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NewsSubsea inspection competition
The UK-headquartered Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaborative RD&D programme funded by nine leading offshore wind developers and the Scottish Government, has recently launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind underwater substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind.
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NewsMacArtney vehicles for North Sea Link job
The first electricity link between the UK and Norway is to interconnect Nordic and British energy markets, the project involving among others equipment from Denmark-headquartered MacArtney Underwater Technology fitted on board a multipurpose supply vessel.
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NewsAquaculture DSV
Workships Contractors, the Netherlands-headquartered manager of the four point mooring Diving Support Vessel, ‘Offshore Beaver’, has announced that the vessel has been sold to Seisund AS of Torangsvag, Norway.
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NewsECM Award for DLM
UK company Dynamic Load Monitoring Ltd (DLM) was named winner of Spirit of Innovation award winner in the category: Marine Engineering and Construction at the recent European Commercial Marine (ECM) awards for Subsea Datalogging Tensile Link. The awards were judged and presented at the Seawork International 2017.
