Subsea Services News – Page 90
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Metoc Buys Compass Data Systems
Technical and project management specialists Metoc of Liphook has strengthened its portfolio of marine and coastal data services with the acquisition of Compass Data Systems , also in Hampshire, which is a leading supplier of software and consultancy for processing of oceanographic data.
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NewsNew Multibeam Systems Announced
New ranges of multibeam echosounders for shallow water applications have been announced separately by Kongsberg Maritime of Norway and Atlas Hydrographic ofGermany. Operating on one of three available frequencies in the 300kHz band, the Kongsberg EM 3002 series is designed for detailed waterways and seafloor mapping as well as inspection ...
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PIANC Group Seeks Techniques for Reducing Siltation in Harbours
The MarCom Working Group 43 at PIANC on ‘ Minimising Harbour Siltation’ is conducting a worldwide search for techniques which have been developed and applied (or at least tested) with a view of reducing siltation in harbours.
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Joint Project Will Address ALWC
A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion that has occurred in unprotected marine structures constructed from steel over the past 20 years or so is to be the subject of a new research project led by the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA).
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Digital Video Proceedings UKHO Launches Admiralty Coastal Surveys
A new Anglo-Swedish joint venture ''which will help shape the future of tomorrow''s survey technology'', Admiralty Coastal Surveys , was officially launched by the UKHydrographic Office at last month''s Oceanology International event in London. Together with Airborne Hydrography AB and Topeye AB of Sweden, the UKHO plans to develop an ...
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QinetiQ Sonar Development
QinetiQ has announced the world''s first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.
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NewsNew VT TSS Systems
Unveiled at OI 2004 were two new developments from VT TSS of Watford. The first, Marinus , is an attitude and heading reference system providing exceptional accuracy in extreme conditions for multibeam operations. Extending the company''s existing range of motion sensors, it is claimed to provide heading, heave, roll and ...
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Digital Video Proceedings
Proceedings of its UK Branch Scottish Region''s recent seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , held in association with the Society for Underwater Technology , are now available on CD for £ 15 from TheHydrographic Society .
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Marine Electronics Orders
Guernsey-based Marine Electronics reports Chinese and US orders for new titanium and aluminium versions of its Dolphin 6201 Obstacle Avoidance Sonar designed for navigation and pilotage of AUV''s and ROV''S.
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Norway Insists on High Speed Craft ECDIS
The Norwegian Maritime Directorate in Oslo is to compel all high-speed craft (HSC''s) and vessels with hazardous cargoes to carry IMO-compliant electronic charts by 2007. As a first stage, it intends to require all HSC''s of any flag operating along the Norwegian coast to carry an approved Ecdis when sailing ...
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Simrad Multibeam for Fugro
Kongsberg-Simrad has received an order for a second EM 300 deepwater multibeam echosounder from Fugro Survey of Aberdeen. It is being installed on the survey vessel, Fugro Meridian and will complement a similar unit operational aboard Fugro ''s Geo Prospector .
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Marine Seismic Survey Database
Supported by EU funding, Euroseismic is a new central meta-database for geophysical data derived from marine seismic surveys for European seas which is now available on the internet www. eu-seased. net Based on data held by marine departments of European geological survey organisations and their partners, it comprises data-entry with ...
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NewsSonardyne Fusion for MBARI ROV'S
Sonardyne International ofYateley reports acquisition of two of its Fusion USBL (Ultra-Short Baseline) acoustic tracking systems by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) to provide high-accuracy subsea positioning for its two deepwater ROV''s, Ventana and Tiburon .
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New Octopus Heave Processing
Octopus iHeave , a new processing suite for long-period ocean swell compensation, is available from Coda Octopus of Deddington for free integration with its Octopus F180 precision attitude and positioning system.
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Hammerhead Awarded for Underwater Welding
West Yorkshire UK based Specialty Welds has received the DTI ''Smart'' Award from the British Government''s Department of Trade & Industry for its new Hammerhead wet-spot process.
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NewsNo Trouble with Double Rubble
UMC International ''s Fujairah team have recently provided a permanent solution for corrosion damage to the flat bottom hull plating of a tanker that was more extensive than had been budgeted for.
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NewsMidnight Manoeuvres Maintain Mobdock Momentum
Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex was asked to carry out a permanent crack repair by an insert on the vertical hull of an 180m long car carrier vessel. It was situated in Le Havre and the work was to be done over a weekend.
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NewsConcept ROV at Oceanology International
The result of more than a year of research, development and testing will be revealed on Stand 546 at Oceanology International when Ac-Cess and their engineering partners at All Oceans debut the AC-ROV.
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NewsPanther Prowls Pipelines
Fareham UK based Seaeye Marine has disproved the common assumption that underwater pipeline surveys can only be carried out by large work class ROVs. One of Seaeye ''s Panther models has been fully fitted out for the task by CCC Underwater Engineering in Abu Dhabi.
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Solent Surveys Completed
High-resolution swathe, sidescan sonar and magnetometer surveys in the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire have been successfully completed by Gardline Environmental on behalf of Southern Water and its consultants, J P Kenny . The Great Yarmouth company was retained to identify and map recent damage to a ...
