Subsea Services News – Page 92
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NewsNew RN Ship Commissioned
HMS Enterprise , the second of the Royal Navy''s new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessels, was formally commissioned in the presence of 200 invited guests at Devonport Naval Base on 17 October.
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CARIS Upgrades HPD Database
CARIS , the Canadian leader in software for marine and hydrographic spatial information production and management, has released Version 2.0 of its widely-used Hydrographic Production Database (HPD).
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First ROV Parametric Sounder
Work on what is claimed to be the first parametric echo sounder capable of deployment on ROV''s down to 2000m is now being carried out by Aquadyne AS of Asker, Norway in association with DeepOcean of Haugesund, a major supplier of offshore survey and inspection services to Statoil and Norsk ...
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NewsThales Wins Contract to Support Veritas with SkyFix-XP
Thales GeoSolutions in Chessington has won a $2.7m two-year contract for provision of its SkyFix-XP satellite differential global positioning system (SDGPS) and SkyFix DGPS services to support Veritas Geophysical Corporation''s global fleet of seismic survey vessels operating from Houston, Crawley and Singapore.
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Finnish Navy Orders Fansweep 20 Multi-beam System
Bremen-based Atlas Hydrographic, which recently reported successful trials of its Parasound DS-2 parametric sub-bottom profiler aboard the Russian Academy of Sciences'' research vessel, Akademik Boris Petrov, en route to the Kara Sea near Murmansk, has been commissioned to supply the Finnish Naval Research Institute in Helsinki with a Fansweep 20 ...
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Free DGPS CD from Veritas
Elsewhere on the DGPS front, Veripos is offering Verichart, a free CD-based mapping facility for producing detailed charts of its proprietary Differential GPS HF and Inmarsat-delivered correction service networks for Africa, North West Europe, North and South America, Trinidad and Caspian and Mediterranean offshore areas.
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Metoc-Shell GIS Deal
Metoc of Liphook, Hampshire, has been awarded a five-year contract by Shell UK Expro in Aberdeen for supply of definitive marine data sets in a ready-to-use geographic information system (GIS).
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IHMC UK Completes Strategy Study for CHP
International Hydrographic Management Consulting (IHMC) has completed a study on a long-term strategy for the UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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NewsDivers Deliver Rapid Permanent Repair
Divers from UMC''s Portland UK branch have successfully completed a complex hull plate insert repair to a vessel calling in their home Portland Port.
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SMD Set To Acquire Hydrovision
An agreement has been signed for Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) to acquire the ongoing business of Hydrovision, subject to the usual diligence and contract. Seaeye Marine, a subsidiary of Hydrovision, is not included in the deal.
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Official Survey Shows - Divers Not Getting Older
A new large-scale survey of divers and diving supervisors carried out by the International Marine Contractor''s Association (IMCA) appears to disprove popular theories that the average age of divers is rising, no young divers are entering the industry, and there will soon be a major crisis when all divers retire ...
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SeaSnake Delivers Divers Delights
KDBC launched two new linear lighting products at seawork2003 .
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NewsWork Resumes on Warship Oil Removal
Briggs Marine have resumed work on a UK Ministry of Defence contract to remove oil from the tank of a sunken battleship off Scapa Flow, Orkney. The Royal Oak wastorpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939 while she lay at anchor, with the loss of 833 lives.
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NewsContainerised Air Dive System for Wreck Exploration and Salvage
Miami, Florida-based wreck exploration and salvage organisation, RPM Nautical Foundation , has acquired a new Type SM-5A Containerised Air Dive System from South African diving system manufacturer Southern Oceanics (Pty) Ltd .
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Technology Advance for Underwater Cables
Elmeridge Cables Ltd , the Brighton UK based cable technologists, have designed and produced new tether cables specifically for remote offshore video systems (ROVs) manufactured by Deep Scenes Ltd of Perth in Australia.
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NewsSubsea Vision With Falcon's Eagle Eye
Dorset UK based ROV specialist Subsea Vision Ltd has been appointed by the Babtie Group on behalf of Montrose Port Authority to conduct an underwater survey of approximately 100m of collapsed quay at Montrose Port in Scotland.
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NewsThales-Sonsub 'Prestige' Contract
Thales GeoSolutions and Sonsub have been retained by Spanish oil company Repsol YPF to design and build ROVs for deepwater surveys and investigation of the Prestige oil tanker which sank 150 miles off the north west Spanish coast last November, occasioning widely-reported environmental damage and political arguments as to who ...
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Hydro4 Symposium
The Hydrographic Society , which is presently devolving into the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), is to hold its 14th biennial international symposium in Galway, Ireland from 2-4 November 2004.
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US Charts on Demand
US company Ocean Grafix of Minnesota reports testing of a service that can provide instant paper charts using latest advances in digital print technology. It has begun tests at two locations in Louisiana in expectation of expanding the service if they are successful.
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Licences for MCA
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency , the UK''s national maritime administration responsible for promoting standards of safety at sea and protection of the marine environment, has acquired a series of licences for HIPS/SIPS, GIS and HOM from Canadian survey software specialists, CARIS .
