Subsea Services News – Page 86
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NewsSee Beneath the Sea at Seawork
Seawork exhibitors Subsea Vision were recently called upon to supply an ROV and operator to survey a sunken vessel off the coast of southern Ireland for contractors Seawinds Ltd . Strong tides and poor visibility created conditions too dangerous for divers.
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Southampton Surveying Course
Southampton Institute is convening a four-week course on Hydrographic Surveying in July.
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UKHO Mariner Handbook
The UK Hydrographic Office has published the 8th edition of its Mariner''s Handbook .
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NewsSounder Success on Show at Seawork
Seawork regulars Ruth and Charlie Foll of Atlantas Marine will be on Stand 188 eager to tell visitors about the new Marimatech MP35 dual frequency echosounder they have recently delivered to Forth Ports .
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C-MapFairplay Agreement
C-Map of Norway and Lloyd''s Register-Fairplay (LRF) have concluded an agreement for mutual improvement and promotion of their respective products.
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Leading Port Authorities Order Atlas Sounders
Atlas Hydrographic in Bremen reports orders for its DESO high-precision vertical echosounders from leading port authorities in France, Germany, Morocco and Poland.
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NewsNew Profiler at Seawork
Oceanographic instrumentation specialists Valeport of Totnes, an exhibitor at Seawork 2005 , has extended its range of depth profilers with introduction of Midas BathyPack for calculation of water column density profiles.
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NewsDutch Deliver Doubled Bottom Time
Dutch subsea contractor Noordhoek Offshore BV is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year by introducing the unique new TUP Diving System, designed and built in-house in consultation with its subsidiary Seatec Underwater Systems BV .
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NewsNew President for IMCA
The International Marine Contractors Association hasappointed Frits Janmatt as its sixth President. Janmatt who is VP for Finance, Legal & Commercial at the Allseas Group , replaces Steve Preston of Heerema Marine Contractors , who steps down after the statutory two years as President.
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NewsVR4Robots Brings ROVs in 3D Worlds to Computer Desktop
Oxford Technologies has launched a low cost virtual reality software to allow subsea and underwater industry engineers to interact with 3D worlds on the desktop.
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NewsSCUBAR Do the Business
Berkshire Fire and Rescue Services in the UK have put the SCUBAR Underwater Scope to good use during recent trials by using it to check for bodies in a car which had crashed off the road into a waterway.
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NewsAAE Acoustic Tracking Orders
Applied Acoustic Engineering of Great Yarmouth reports further significant sales of its Easytrak Portable acoustic tracking system with orders from rental companies Subsea Technologies Inc in the US and Sonar Equipment Services in the UK.
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Veripos Establishes Peruvian DGPS Service
Aberdeen-based Veripos has extended the South American sector of its global Differential GPS service with establishment of new facilities in Peru serving offshore users in the Pacific region. They comprise two land-based reference stations at the coastal cities of Chiclayo and Lima providing rapid update rates and low data latency, ...
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MCA Orders Seabat Multi-Beam
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency has ordered a Reson SeaBat 7125 multibeam echosounder system for installation on its emergency towing vessel, MV Anglian Sovereign . The MCA says the system will enhance the secondary role capabilities of the vessel by adding an object detection capability in support of updating ...
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Primar Stavanger Distributes Italian ENC's
Primar Stavanger international electronic navigational chart service operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service is to distribute Italian ENC''s following an agreement with the Italian Hydrographic Office . Since the organisation has been distributing French, Greek and Spanish ENC''s for some time, introduction of Italian variants means that most of the ...
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AIS Chartware for Felixstowe
Fugro Survey ''s GeoSoft Solutions division , also based in Great Yarmouth, has received an order from the Port of Felixstowe for installation and client specification development of its ChartViewAIS technology.
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Sonardyne's Scout to Guide MoD Surveys
The UK Ministry of Defence has become the first military organisation to commission Sonardyne International ''s new Scout underwater tracking system, which calculates the position of beacon-fitted subsea targets by measuring their ranges and bearings from a vessel mounted transceiver using ultra-short baseline positioning (USBL) methods.
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UKHO-Priar Stavanger Agreement
The UK Hydrographic Office isto include Primar-Stavanger data within its worldwide Admiralty ECDIS and ENC (Electronic Nautical Chart) services, following an agreement signed between the two organisations at the end of March.
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New Sumrad ECDIS
Simrad , part of the Norwegian Kongsberg Group , has announced a new Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), the CS68, a fully Wheelmark approved unit based on a dedicated MC50 marine computer and designed for installation aboard SOLAS category vessels.
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News£1.1m Ashtead Oorder for VT TSS
Signifying what it sees as an upturn in global offshore activity, Ashtead Technology , the Aberdeen-based rental company, has placed an order worth 1.1m with VT TSS ofWatford for four of its latest Marinus attitude and heading reference units together with other proprietary equipment.
