Navaids – Page 13
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NewsHybridTouch aids workboat navigation
Raymarine has just introduced its new line of E-Series Widescreen Multifunction Displays (MFD) with HybridTouch to the US market. The HybridTouch user interface gives operators the simplicity and ease of touch screen operation, and also the confidence of complete keypad control in rough seas or inclement weather.
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NewsNew fund to improve navigational safety in Straits
A new IMO Trust Fund has been launched to help improve navigational safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. To kickstart the fund Greece, a key user of the Straits, have contributed an initial $1m.
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NewsLanterns replace rotating beacon in Irish lighthouse
The Commissioners of Irish Lights have chosen two MaxLED-600 lanterns from Tideland Signal to replace a PRB rotating beacon with incandescent lamps in its Straw Island lighthouse because of the MaxLED' s compact, low consumption design, which makes it ideally suited to the limited solar power supply available given the ...
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NewsGPS synchronises upgraded navaids
Tideland Signal has supplied a package of navigational warning systems for the Ekofisk complex in the North Sea to replace redundant older systems and to interface with earlier Tideland equipment which has been in service for some 25 years.
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NewsLong ride for world's biggest buoy
Beluga Shipping’ s transport ship MV Beluga Formation has transported the world’ s largest buoy from Indonesia to the Gulf of Mexico.
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NewsSolar marine lantern survives 'extreme testing'
The first solar powered marine lantern with a built in ‘ intelligent deployment’ feature aims to make life easy. Because it automatically tunes itself to its location, it protects itself against improper configuration (while also adjusting for a Schmidt-Clausen effect).
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NewsBarge light visible to 3nm
The successful launch of Sealite’ s BargeSaf UL 1104 Certified LED Barge Light has seen hundreds of the product shipped to customers all around the world.
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NewsSetting the towers alight
Pharos Marine is also playing its part in the lighting up of the Greater Gabbard windfarm. The company is supplying the marine aids to navigation equipment that will be placed directly on the towers themselves.
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NewsSealite Dukes it out in Java
Each year the world’ s biggest Java technology event, the JavaOne Conference, culminates in the prestigious Duke’ s Choice Award, selected by the ‘ Father of Java, James Gosling, to celebrate extreme innovation in the world of Java technology. They are awarded to the best and most innovative products using ...
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NewsWind farm navaids tell their own story
Hydrosphere’ s Andy Reid tells MJ that the company has recently deployed five buoys at the Greater Gabbard wind farm which have the ability to transmit information to a base station, such as correct position and functioning as well as whether they have been hit by a boat.
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News'Black art' into the spotlight at Seawork
Oddly enough, Seawork exhibitor John Simpson is becoming increasingly used to having his Echomax radar reflectors shot at as various navies around the world have found that they are very good for getting a radar fix on, which makes them useful for training and target purposes.
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NewsBuoys for the boys at Seawork
Hydrosphere will be using this year' s Seawork, its ninth consecutive appearance at the exhibition, to demonstrate its growing range of buoys, lights and auxiliary navigation products from Carmanah, Mobilis and Vega Industries.
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NewsLED lanterns replace rotating beacons in Albanian lighthouses
The Italian Navy, which provides technical assistance to the Albanian Lighthouse Authority, has chosen stackable lanterns with high performance EFF LED flashers to replace traditional rotating beacons in lighthouses around the coast of Albania.
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NewsA tale of dolphins and SALT at Seawork
Hard on the heels of winning a contract to design and develop a passive marker for the UK’ s Minstry of Defence (MoD), Subsea Asset Location Technologies (SALT) will be appearing at Seawork to show off just how an elegant use of materials can revolutionise underwater location, and stop marine ...
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NewsNew buoy on duty in Swansea Bay
The Port of Neath has chosen Tideland''s newly launched SB-2200 polyethylene buoy to replace a broken GRP buoy marking the port side of the channel for ships entering the tidal estuary of the River Neath in Swansea Bay.
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NewsBright light for Chichester Harbour entrance
Chichester Harbour Conservancy in West Sussex has installed a new Vega VLB-44 solar powered flashing LED light supplied by Hydrosphere UK Ltd.
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NewsBuoy deployment doubles channel usage
Peel Ports Medway in the UK has installed five Mobilis BC1242 buoys, supplied by aids to navigation specialist Hydrosphere, to mark a secondary channel from the Thames Estuary to the River Medway.
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NewsBuoys and lights for Kenyan ports
UK based aids to navigation specialist Tideland Signa has won a major contract to supply buoys and lanterns for the Kenya Ports Authority in the harbours at Mombassa and Lamu.
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NewsBright lights with solar marine beacon
Carmanah Technologies Corporation has launched a new flagship product in its line of solar powered marine beacons. The M708 marine lantern combines an advanced optical design with high efficiency solar modules and high efficacy LEDs to become Carmanah' s highest output LED marine lantern to date.
