TSS Launches New INS Equipment

01 Jan 2007

Last month’s Ocean Business Exhibition and Conference in Southampton saw TSS International introduce its latest Orion series of Inertial Navigation Systems, providing precise attitude, heading and heave data for applications ranging from support of multibeam surveys and ROV operations to construction of major seabed installations.  

SEA Group Sales Success

01 May 2007

SEA Group, which employs over 200 staff at sites in the UK’s West Country, has sold three of its 234 kHz Swathplus interferometric sonar systems to the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration and the Shanghai Water Supplies Bureau while in Europe, a further two configurations have been delivered to Electricite de France (EDF) for surveying hydro-electric dams on lakes and rivers.  

DTI Grant for Underwater Modem Advance

01 Apr 2007

Further development by Wireless Fibre Systems of underwater wireless modem technology (first described in this column last December).  

Coastal and Ports Surveying Seminar

18 Feb 2008

The UK Civil Hydrographic Programme’s results for 2006 and plans for this year under the auspices of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency is the lead topic for a one day seminar on Thursday 14 June at the Port of Southampton’s Canary Islands Fruit Terminal.