Navaids – Page 17
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NewsRacons Contract for US Coast Guard
Tideland Signal of Houston, Texas has won a three year contract to supply SeaBeacon 2 System 6 racons to the US Coast Guard .
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Data Buoys Debut
Surrey UK based Planet Ocean has announced a new ''off the shelf'' range of data buoy platforms for environmental instrumentation in all operational conditions. Starting with the low cost 1.24m DB-124 inshore buoy and rising to the open ocean 3m DB-300 model, all in the range incorporate high specification radar ...
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Loran-C Transmitter Trial Commences This Month
Trinity House , the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights will trial the long range, low frequency electronic position fixing system Loran-C at a BT Radio site near Rugby United Kingdom starting this month.
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NewsToys for the Buoys at Seawork 2005
Hampshire UK based oceanographic instrument supplier RS Aqua Ltd will use the occasion of Seawork 2005 to promote a range of new initiatives from Dutch wave buoy manufacturer Datawell BV .
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NewsTideland In Buoyant Form at Seawork
Tideland Signal , together with its distributors FPM Henderson and Lumen Seamarks , will be showing highlights of its aids to navigation range, including the latest Automatic Identification System and diode based lanterns at Seawork 2005 .
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NewsLighthouse History Enlivens National Curriculum
Trinity House is relocating part of its collection of historical lighthouse artefacts to visitor centres at the Lizard and Pendeen Lighthouses in a move part funded by the European Union as part of the Atlantic Lights project, which supports initiatives to make lighthouses more accessible to the public.
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NewsTideland's New Buoys Are UK Manufactured
Tideland Signal is now manufacturing its new SB-98P multi-purpose polyethylene buoy in the UK rather than importing supplies from North America, providing better availability for customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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NewsBattered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic
New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser.
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NewsNavaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay
Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £ 16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995.
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NewsCoastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas
Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia.
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NewsBack-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons
Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft''s new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port.
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MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy
The British Government''s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark''s Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy ...
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Shipping Lines Press UK to Block Irish Investment
LEADING international shipping lines called on the British Government this month to suspend its plan to invest in a new headquarters for the Commissioners of Irish Lights .
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New Version of Tideland/Norcontrol PMIS
Tideland Maritime Systems hasintroduced a new version of its Port Management Information System (PMIS) designed to manage the complexities of port and vessel management.
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NewsGPS Synchronised Solar Marine Lights Launched
Canadian solar powered LED lighting specialists Carmanah Technologies Inc has released what is claimed to be the world''s first completely unitised, GPS synchronised marine lights.
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NewsDamen Delivers 'Relume' for MENAS
Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS) introduced its new multipurpose light tender vessel Relume in a special naming ceremony at Damen Shipyards'' Scheldepoort facility in Vlissingen, The Netherlands on July 6.
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Navaids Future in '2020 The Vision'
In April the General Lighthouse Authorities published 2020 The Vision, a roadmap for provision and the development of aids to navigation in British and Irish waters over the next 20 years.
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NewsBringing It Home In Sierra Leone
Sussex UK based navaids specialist Tideland Signal has supplied over 30 buoys and solar powered lanterns to guide shipping into the estuary of the Sierra Leone River and the port of Freetown, the country''s capital.
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E-Sea Fix Does It for Milford Haven
Following successful trials of the E-Sea Fix pilot navigation system last year, Somerset UK based Atlantas Marine has won an order to install the system at the port of Milford Haven in Wales.
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NewsNew Beacons Go In at Goteborg
Work is now in progress to mark the edges of fairways into the Swedish Port of Goteborg after they have been broadened, straightened and deepened by a major dredging programme.
