Subsea Services News – Page 57
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French port commissions
Cadden of Nantes in France, specialist suppliers of electronic systems to domestic hydrographic and oceanographic concerns, is to provide Rouen Harbour and the ferry port of Caen with purpose designed integrated systems for installation on two new survey vessels commissioned by the authorities.
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South west coastal monitoring surveys
Coastline Surveys of Falmouth UK is to provide single beam and bathymetric surveys of UK south west regions.
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Cheaper chart production
There is no need to spend a lot of money producing digital charts for navigation, says Hamburg-based SevenCs, the former subsidiary of the UK Hydrographic Office.
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Survey & inspection platform development
Offshore Marine Management (OMM), which has offices in Bristol, Cambridge and Hamburg, says it is developing an advanced integrated vehicle for survey and inspection operations down to depths of 100m.
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IHO XVIIIth Conference
The inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organization in Monaco, representing 80 member countries, is to hold its five yearly conference from 23 to 27 April.
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NewsESG enhances survey capabilities
Environmental Scientifics Group (ESG), which claims to be the UK’s leading provider of site investigation services for over-water and land projects, has boosted its resources with the addition of a dedicated inshore survey vessel, MV Pulsar.
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Orders for Unique System and Sonardyne
Unique System (UK), part of Unique Maritime Group based in Sharjah, UAE, has expanded its inventory of rental equipment with acquisition of 6G acoustic positioning systems worth over £1m from Sonardyne International.
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Prototype sidescan broadens the view
A prototype Wideview 3D interferometric sidescan sonar providing high resolution images over a 120° field of view is to be launched later this year by Marine Electronics.
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NewsCoastline completes vibrocoring for Hanson
MV Flatholm was on site 24/7 during the aggregates vibracoring campaign.The scope of the first works comprised 58 core locations off Norfolk UK. The specialist geotechnical survey vessel MV Flatholm was mobilised and the work was completed using Coastline’s high powered vibrocore, ‘C-Core-HP’, in 5m configuration. The average overall recovery ...
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NewsSurvey for longest HVDC link in the world
Statnett SF and National Grid International Ltd have awarded MMT (Sweden) the marine survey contract for the NSN Seabed survey, a power transmission link between Norway and the UK.
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Survey success for windfarm off IoW
Following the success of the preliminary geotechnical coring programme in 2010, Fugro has successfully performed a detailed geophysical survey of Navitus Bay for Eneco Round 3 Development Ltd.
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NewsNew UIS for Rijkswaterstaat
The survey department of the Netherlands’ Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) has taken receipt of its first integrated Underwater Inspection System (UIS) from CodaOctopus.
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NewsBlueComm to boost subsea data transfer
Sonardyne International Ltd has launched a new joint venture company with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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NewsNew systems extend Spanish survey capability
Kongsberg Maritime is supporting the Spanish Hydrographic Institute in expanding its survey capabilities during the first part of 2012 following official equipment acceptance.
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NewsUKHO award for German hydrographer
The recipient of this year' s annual UK Hydrographic Office Alexander Dalrymple Award for outstanding dedication and contribution to world hydrography is Horst Hecht, Director of the Federal German Maritime & Hydrographic Agency' s Department of Nautical Hydrography in Rostock.
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NewsNorway-Croatia ENC Agreement
Heading the Primar Stavanger regional ENC distributor network, the Norwegian Hydrographic Service has signed a bilateral agreement with the Croatian Hydrographic Institute for distribution of the latter''s electronic nautical charts (ENCs). The agreement, says Norwegian Hydrographer Frode Klepsvik, will extend ENC coverage of the Adriatic which has hitherto been dependant ...
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NewsRijkswaterstaat enhances shallow water survey
Great Yarmouth UK based GeoAcoustics Ltd has delivered four GeoSwath systems to the Netherlands'' Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), the arm of the Dutch Ministry of Transportation and Water Management whose responsibilities include the construction and maintenance of waterways and flood prevention.
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Pay as you sail EBCs
Navigational chart distributor Datema Delfzijl in Holland has launched a new ‘ pay as you sail’ ENC distribution system, ENCtrack, that for the first time will allow users to pay for chart licences starting from the time their vessels enter chart coverage areas, and not from the time that cells ...
