Subsea Services News – Page 87
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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.
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NewsLatest Fugro AUV Launched
Fugro in Aberdeen reports successful trials and launch of its new Hugin 3000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Echo Surveyor, following acceptance tests at Kongsberg Maritime''s base in Horton, Norway.
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Canadian Hydrographic Association Joins IFHS
The Canadian HydrographicAssociation (CHA) has joined the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), the recently established elective international body comprising member organisations of Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, the UK and US.
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INSS Contract Awarded to iXSEA
iXSEA of France has been awarded a contract by the Marine Institute of Ireland for supplyof navigational and positioning systems for use as part of the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) project, currently the worlds largest hydrographic survey venture covering an area of 450,000 square km. The project is ...
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Sonar Finds Hidden Beaches
Sonar studies of the Venice Lagoon have revealed submerged beaches that play a crucial role in preservation of its wetlands following surveys carried out by Southampton Oceanography Centre on behalf of CORILAS (Consortium for Co-ordination of Research Activities for the Venice Lagoon System).
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NewsAirborne Bathymetry In Rivers Breakthrough
In the first instance of a shallow water river environment being successfully mapped by airborne LIDAR survey technology, Woolpert Inc and Fugro Pelagos Inc have completed a survey of the Yakima River in the USA.
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News'QM 2' Ramps up Bridgetown Survey Requirement
The Port of Bridgetown in the Barbados has become one of the premier ports for the booming cruise ship industry operating out of Miami and Port Everglades. Major dredging works completed in May 2002 allow the port to accept vessels of up to 10m draught.
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NewsNewDevelopment in Mobdock Technology
Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex has just adapted a fast, simple and inexpensive way of dealing with underwater work in confined areas, such as a thruster tunnel, where the work in the water needs to be done ''in the dry''.
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IMCA Delivers Dive Boat Guidance
Due to the limited availability of purpose designed ships, there are regions of the world that frequently use vessels of opportunity from which to carry out surface supplied and saturation diving work.
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NERC Orders New Ship
The UK Natural Environment Research Council, which has an annual budget of around £ 300m to fund and undertake impartial research in environmental sciences, has commissioned construction of a new £ 36m 5,000 tonne vessel, James Cook. To be built by Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk in Norway, she will replace ...
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Tsunami Relief Aid Begins
The widespread damage to livelihoods and infrastructures resulting from the magnitude 9 earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra on 26 December has brought a swift response from world aid agencies and organisations, including national hydrographic offices.
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BP-Scripps Agreement
BP has concluded a $3m partnership agreement with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, for a three-year research programme. The initial focus of the programme, say the two organisations, will be to develop and evaluate new technologies for imaging and characterising seafloors and sub-seafloors.
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Primar & IC-ENC Agreement
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and the UK Hydrographic Office , as operators of Primar Stavanger and the International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (IC-ENC) respectively, have signed a letter of intent on closer cooperation for distribution of products.
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2nd International Seabed Acoustics Workshop
German underwater specialist Innomar Technologie is hosting a 2nd international workshop on Seabed Acoustics , in Rostock-Warnemunde from 24-25 February. Following an opening address by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''s Minister for Economic Affairs, F Dorok, there will be a series of presentations by speakers from Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Russia.
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NewsUnmanned Sub With No Engine
Spray , a novel unmanned glider-type submarine with no engine has recently completed extensive crossings of open seas measuring salinity, temperature and pressure in the Gulf stream between the surface and 1,000m depths every seven hours.
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Calls for Satellite Alernative
Concerns over what UK Shipping Minister David Jamieson has called the ''vulnerability'' of satellite navigation systems means that a terrestrial alternative is needed, he said. Jamieson made the comments during recent launch of a document setting out the UK and Ireland''s strategy for navaids to 2020. He announced that the ...
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Force Be With You Underwater
Force Dredging Systems (FDS) has recently completed a successful hire contract in the Caspian Sea which involved clearing drill mud cuttings and debris away from the base of a production jacket and placing them in a specified dumpsite some 60m to 80m away. Once FDS'' Superstream Dredging System had cleared ...
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NewsNearshore Project for New Pipe Tracker
The ShengLi Oilfield has purchased two advanced TSS440 pipe trackers for use with its new pipelay plough. The two pipe trackers have been supplied by UK company VT TSS Ltd and fitted to the front and rear of the tracked plough. Designed and built by ShengLi Oilfield engineers, the plough ...
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News'Redeemer' Adds Diving to Activities List
Seeing what at first appears to be a modern sport fisherman with an Effer knuckle boom crane mounted to port amidships makes the viewer wonder how big a fish the crew is after. However, appearances can be deceiving and Falmouth UK based Bay Marine ''s 37'' vessel Redeemer is in ...
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Hydro4 Proceedings Available
Proceedings of its Hydro4 symposium in Galway last month attended by delegates from over 30 countries are now available from the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies , formerly The Hydrographic Society .
