Subsea Services News – Page 35
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NewsKongsberg’s upgraded cameras
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has launched two new Colour Pan and Tilt Zoom (PATZ) cameras. The OE14-222 (PAL) and OE14-223 (NTSC) underwater CCD colour cameras provide completely enclosed pan, tilt and zoom functionality.
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NewsWarship discovery
After a 6 year-long-search for the ‘Rio de Janeiro’, a sunken German warship, Agder-Tech, A-Dykk, and Seabed-Services found the vessel sitting off the coast of Lillesand, Norway.
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Valeport Indonesian success
Valeport in Devon, UK, has reported a multiple delivery of 31 TideMaster tide gauges, 14 mini-SVS sound velocity sensors and a similar quantity of its miniSVP sound velocity profilers to the Indonesian Directorate General of Sea Transportation (HUBLA) in a venture carried out in association with South East Asian distributors, ...
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New iXBlue developments
iXBlue has launched Rovins Nano, a new compact inertial navigation system which the French company says will revolutionise ROV navigation. Based on the company’s widely-adopted fibre optic technology, it is designed for ROV pilots carrying out maintenance and construction operations and is claimed to provide unrivalled stability and accuracy ...
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Geo Plus expands in Middle East
Dutch survey organisation Geo Plus BV of Scheemda has expanded operations with establishment of a secondary base in the UAE to support its Middle East and North Africa operations.
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NewsRemote survey platform trials completed
UK-based Bibby HydroMap announced at last month’s Oceanology International event in London successful completion of trials of its newly-developed Dynamic Remotely-Operated Survey Platform (d’ROP) assembly designed for remote surveying in challenging environments considered too taxing for inspection-class ROVs.
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SUT Conference
The Society for Underwater Technology, which has members in over 40 countries, is to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a three-day conference at London’s ExCel Centre on The Future of Underwater Technology, from 15-17 November.
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NewsiSurvey positioning support agreements
iSurvey, the Norwegian offshore support group with subsidiary bases in Aberdeen and Singapore, has been awarded a multi-year frame agreement with Nexans Norway AS covering provision of navigation, positioning and survey services for cable lay operations aboard its specialist support vessel, ‘Nexans Skagerrak’.
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Applied Acoustics down under contract
Great Yarmouth, UK-based Applied Acoustic Engineering (AAE) has recorded the 450th sale of its USBL (Ultra Short Baseline) range of acoustic positioning systems with supply of a Nexus model to Neptune Marine Services in Perth, one of Australia’s leading exponents of integrated offshore engineering solutions.
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Sub-bottom profilers for Chinese research institutes
Two leading research institutes belonging to the government-owned China Geological Survey organisation in Beijing, GMGS and QIMG, are being equipped with Teledyne Reson ParaSound P70 sub-bottom profilers capable of penetrating seabeds at more than 200m in water depths as deep as 11,000m.
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Rijkswaterstaat orders inland water multibeam systems
IGA, the specialist department of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment’s Rijkswaterstaat organisation responsible for surveying 5472 km of inland waterways throughout the Netherlands, has commissioned five Kongsberg Maritime EM 2040C high-resolution shallow water multibeam systems as the mainstay for future operations aboard its fleet of vessels.
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NewsNew Marine Electronics sonar developments
Guernsey-based sonar specialists Marine Electronics in the Channel Islands, which recently delivered an advanced 3D profiling system for short range bathymetry to the Korean Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) in Ansan, has developed a new Dolphin 2D system designed mainly for small AUVs and ROVs.
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NewsDeep Ocean drone
USA-headquartered Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc. has revealed its newest addition to its family of underwater drones, the Phantom T5 ROV.
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NewsA year under ice
A robot that can remain under the ice for a year in order to measure the Arctic seabed’s varying oxygen profiles has been tested out below 4km of water.
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NewsMore need for an underwater ‘ear’
There’s “an increasing interest at international level with regards the protection of harbours, vessels and critical infrastructure”, Submarine Electronics (SAES) told ''MJ''.
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NewsKeeping pace with the challenges: Oceanology 16
There are issues on the table right now that seemed ‘distant possibilities’ not that long ago, and to its credit this year’s Oceanology International exhibition (ExCeL London, 15-17 March), is responding.
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NewsDangerous history
The big dredging and windfarm projects off the German and Dutch coasts have to make sure they don’t go with a blast ...from pieces of history that present an ongoing hazard to both human and animal life.
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NewsMultinational Fugro
Fugro’s multinational operations continue apace with award of a combined geophysical and geotechnical contract by Hess Exploration for seabed mapping in North West Australia involving use of a Hugin 1000 AUV.
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Bay of Bothnia mapping
Swedish hydrographic organisation Clinton Marine Survey of Malmo reports successful completion of large-scale mapping of Finnish sectors of the Bay of Bothnia involving multibeam surveys covering 1,311 square km at depths of between 5.5m and 95m.
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French connection for IFHS
The Association Francophone d’Hydrographie (AFHy), which represents the worldwide interests of private and public stakeholders in hydrography throughout French-speaking countries, has been elected a member of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) whose other member organisations include those in Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, Germany, Italy, South Africa, South Korea and ...
