Navaids

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…

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…

Beluga Shipping’ s transport ship MV Beluga Formation has transported the world’ s largest buoy from Indonesia to the Gulf of Mexico.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Port of Neath has chosen Tidelands 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…

Chichester Harbour Conservancy in West Sussex has installed a new Vega VLB-44 solar powered flashing LED light supplied by Hydrosphere UK Ltd.

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…

Since their recent introduction, the new Hella marine NaviLED LED navigation lamps have become the choice for dozens of boatbuilders. The convenient port and starboard twin pack has also proven popular with…

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.

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.

A report out this month on an array of long term data buoys in the Atlantic shows that it has exceeded expectations - despite fishing damage, vandalism and bird droppings - and…

This month sees the often humble buoy rising in the world of technology as a UK company steps into production of Automatic Identification System (AIS) units that will be fitted to many…

A new large-size buoy with a twin keel hull design that has already won orders across the world, has recently found a special niche in waters closer to home.