Hydrographic Survey

Hydrographic surveys of Durres harbour and its approaches in the Adriatic Sea, Albania, are presently being completed by a US Navy Fleet Survey Team (FST) under arrangements with the Albanian government.

The UK Hydrographic Office has sold SevenCs and its subsidiary, ChartWorld, to Dutch-Belgian-Trading GmbH (DBT), the maritime trading and investment company in Hamburg.

Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system now has a full orbital constellation of 24 satellites following successful launch of the final unit from the Plesetsk spaceport at the beginning of October.

Watford UK based Teledyne TSS, whose Meridian Standard and Surveyor gyrocompasses have recently been type approved by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, has launched a new range of motion sensors, the…

CSA International Inc, an environmental survey company working in the Gulf of Mexico, is the first organisation to purchase the new GyroUSBL calibration-free acoustic positioning system from Sonardyne International of Hampshire UK.

Partrac, the Glasgow based marine data acquisition company specialising in oceanographic, environmental and geoscience surveys, is to host the 49th UK Marine Measurement Forum at the city’s prestigious Science Centre on Wednesday…

Researchers in the Balearic Islands and beyond will soon gain a better understanding of the environmental conditions in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

Netsurvey of Banbury UK, now part of the Swedish MMT Group, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency for hydrographic survey work under Lot 2…

Captain Peter Kortenoeven, until recently a staff officer for maritime planning at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, has been appointed Chief Hydrographer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, in succession to Captain Floor de…

UTEC Survey, which claims to be one of the world’s largest independent offshore survey companies with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Singapore and the UK, has established an Italian presence in Naples…

A team from Stockholm based Ocean Explorer headed by researcher and treasure hunter Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is either a crashed flying saucer or a subsea version of…

The former UKOOA (UK Offshore Operators Association) document, Guidelines for the Use of GPS in Offshore Surveying, has been jointly revised by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) and…

The UK Hydrographic Office, which is presently seeking buyers for its German SevenCs and ChartWorld subsidiaries with a combined turnover of €5m, is to open its first overseas office in Singapore.

The London based International Marine Contractors Association, which has 750 members in nearly 60 countries, has published a dedicated industry wide checklist for use by survey, ROV and pipeline installation contractors and…

Also at Seawork 2011, Coastline Surveys reported that it has been retained locally by Land & Water Services of Guildford to provide survey support for dredging work presently being carried out at…