All News articles – Page 604
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NewsMOB light awarded
UK company Exposure Marine’s new MOB (man over board) light, has achieved top honours, winning the Life Saving and Safety Equipment category at the 2014 DAME Awards, announced this year’s Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS).
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NewsPearl Harbor survey
US based Deep Ocean Engineering has announced its recent participation in the first comprehensive multibeam survey of the remains of ‘USS Arizona’ and ‘USS Utah’ in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Team members from Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc, R2Sonic, Autodesk, and eTrac traveled to Oahu to conduct these historic surveys as ...
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NewsWorld’s most expensive workboat?
The recently completed ‘Pieter Schelte’ is probably the most sophisticated workboat ever built. Designed primarily for the removal of offshore oil structures this complex vessel has been under development for the past 25 years by Swiss company Allseas.
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Marine investors get into the zone
Ireland’s Clare County Council says the zoning of more than 345 hectares of land along the Shannon Estuary will anyone looking at large-scale marine development “greater investor confidence”.
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NewsExpanding mariculture?
UK-headquartered ABPmer, supported by the Institute of Aquaculture, at the University of Stirling, has been appointed to carry out a ground-breaking study to evaluate whether mariculture expansion provides a means of decreasing the impact of terrestrial food and energy production.
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NewsKNRM self-righter
The Royal Netherlands Lifeboat Organisation (KNRM), has taken a new self-righting lifeboat into service. The vessel, named ‘Cornelis’, a Dito type Fast Rescue Craft 903 - Twin was delivered to the KNRM station at Texel.
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Ocean Business 2015 registration open
Expected to attract over 5,000 visitors from over 65 countries, registration is now open for Ocean Business 2015 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK from 14-16 April.
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UKHO launches ENC Maintenance Record
The UK Hydrographic Office has launched what it calls the Admiralty ENC Maintenance Record (NP 133C), designed to streamline management of paper records of Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC) and ECDIS maintenance aboard ships and thus make information on official digital charts more accessible for bridge crews.
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MMT cable route surveys
MMT of Sweden reports it is presently completing detailed route survey operations for the planned Monita 119km subsea cable installation in the Mediterranean linking Italy and Montenegro. Work is being carried out under contract to Nexans Norway AS, which is responsible for supply and installation of the power cable for ...
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New QPS processing suite
Dutch software specialists QPL of Zeist have announced plans to introduce early next year a new multibeam bathymetric processing suite providing a dynamic and guided processing workflow, Qimera.
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IMarEST acquires Hydrographic Academy
The London-based Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST), which has a worldwide membership of more than 15,000 individuals in over 100 countries, has acquired Plymouth University’s Hydrographic Academy now known from the beginning of November as Marine Learning Alliance Ltd.
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NewsGlobal audience for Hydro14
George Adam, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, welcomed well over 300 delegates from more than 25 countries at the opening of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ (IFHS) 22nd Hydrographic Conference in Aberdeen, UK at the end of October.
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Quarter of a million downloads for ECDISregs
Having reached the milestone of 250,000 downloads online training site ECDISregs has, its makers claim, proven its worth as one of the more widely used online maritime resources.
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NewsSimrad HD family
Simrad claim that their Advanced HD Digital Radars offer unparalleled situational awareness with exceptional detection of small or distant targets and minimised screen-clutter. The new line-up includes 6-foot 10kW (TXL-10S-6) and 7-foot 25kW (TXL-25S-7) open array systems, as well as a 4-foot 10kW (TXL-10S-4) array.
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Renewable demand
The marine renewable energy sector could is set to boom in 2015 as the demand for renewable and reliable energy continues to grow, says Anders Jansson, co-founder and CEO of energy technology company, Minesto.
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NewsLidar for the Bell Rock
Inch Cape Offshore Limited has successfully deployed a ZephIR 300 lidar on the historic Bell Rock lighthouse, 17km off the Angus coast, Scotland. ZephIR 300 has been mounted on a platform on the north east of the lighthouse using a specially designed support frame measuring wind direction and wind ...
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NewsNavaids chopper contract awarded
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have announced a £13M seven-year contract to PDG Helicopters for the provision of helicopter services to cover all three Authorities.
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NewsNick Warren: Burgess Marine Group
When Nick Warren left the University of Southampton with a degree in Business Management and Finance, he had few thoughts of a career in shiprepair. But, after a short spell with yacht brokers Ancasta and encouraged by some more than gentle persuasion from his father, he decided it was time ...
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Buoys looking buoyant
UK-based marine environmental solutions company, Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL), have reported strong global buoy sales, which has seen installations of buoy systems as far afield as South America, the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Far East, in the last few months alone.
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Canada investing
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada’s Minister of Transport, announced back in October that the Government of Canada will provide up to $20-million over three years to Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) for its Smart Ocean initiative, which supports the World-Class Tanker Safety System.
