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NewsSilent Running 'Celtic Explorer' Garners Praise
Ireland''s first deep-sea research vessel, the Irish Marine Institute ''s new RV Celtic Explorer , appears to have drawn nothing but praise since she was commissioned in April after completion at Damen/Royal Schelde .
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NewsNew Cheetah Hungry for Power
Cheetah Marine of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight has launched the first example of its new Cheetah 7.9m design to coincide with the opening of the new Ventnor Haven sheltered mooring facility. The new catamaran has been designed specifically to make use of the new generation of powerful four ...
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Expansion Opens at Trinity
The Port of Felixstowe officially opened the first phase of its Trinity Terminal expansion by adding six hectares of back-up land which will boost storage capacity by 6,500 teu. A further section of storage area will be opened early next year, ahead of the quay becoming fully operational by July ...
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Tyne Online
Newcastle UK based Tyne First has launched a website to promote, serve and support marine and offshore technology companies on and around the River Tyne. The website, www. tynefirst. com , focuses on the capacity and capability of a range of local companies and will be used to promote the ...
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Name Change for Barkemeyer
The Van der Velden Group of companies, which includes Barkemeyer GmbH & Kg , has celebrated its 40th anniversary with a change of name. Oceangoing manoeuvring equipment specialists Barkemeyer will henceforth operate under the trade name Van der Velden Marine Systems . The Barkmeyer brand name is associated with its ...
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NewsABP Opens 3rd Southampton Cruise Terminal
Associated British Ports officially opened its third cruise terminal in the Port of Southampton last month, with the £ 1.5m City Cruise Terminal bringing ABP ''s investment in Southampton cruise facilities to over £ 10m this year.
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NewsSuccessful 'Tricolor' Removal Underway
One of the largest wreck removal operations ever undertaken continues in the English Channel with the consortium Combinatie Berging Tricolor (CBT) having already removed two sections cut from the sunken car carrier Tricolor to Zeebrugge.
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NewsDouble-up Research Ship is 'Immense Challenge' Say Dutch
A unique new research vessel boasting a double propeller plant and two separate engine rooms is now under construction at Dutch shipyard Niestern Sander in Delfzijl.
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NewsSupersonic Legend Makes Final Flight By Water
Dutch marine transport specialists Van der Wees Watertransporten made front page news in the Netherlands and Germany recently when their pontoon Lastdrager wasused to sail a decommissioned Concorde aircraft 50 miles down the Rhine.
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IHC To Close van der Giessen-de Noord Shipyard
The Netherlands'' IHC Caland offshore and shipbuilding group has announced the pending closure of its van der Giessen-de Noord shipyard in Rotterdam with the loss of 400 jobs. Completion of existing orders will keep the yard open until early next year.
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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 .
