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Due to the limited availability of purpose designed ships, there are regions of the world that frequently use vessels of opportunity from which to carry out surface supplied and saturation diving work.

1st February 2005

IMCA Delivers Dive Boat Guidance

1st February 2005

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SUBSEA SERVICES

Force Dredging Systems (FDS) has recently completed a successful hire contract in the Caspian Sea which involved clearing drill mud cuttings and debris away from the base of a production jacket and…

1st December 2004

Force Be With You Underwater

1st December 2004

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The ShengLi Oilfield has purchased two advanced TSS440 pipe trackers for use with its new pipelay plough. The two pipe trackers have been supplied by UK company VT TSS Ltd and fitted…

1st December 2004

Nearshore Project for New Pipe Tracker

1st December 2004

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Seeing what at first appears to be a modern sport fisherman with an Effer knuckle boom crane mounted to port amidships makes the viewer wonder how big a fish the crew is…

1st December 2004

Redeemer Adds Diving to Activities List

1st December 2004

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Russian and Danish divers used the first CE approved closed circuit breathing system last month during a four day underwater research mission in the Arctics Chukchi Sea. The Inspiration Closed Circuit Rebreathers…

1st September 2004

Underwater Search for Iconic Shipwreck

1st September 2004

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UMC International recently designed and applied an innovative underwater temporary shaft sealing system, which allowed the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) to successfully undertake afloat modifications to the design of the inboard…

1st June 2004

Underwater Shaft Sealing Averts Drydock

1st June 2004

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Applied Acoustic Engineering of Great Yarmouth UK has launched a new ultra-short baseline (USBL) tracking system which it designed as an economical solution for tracking a variety of underwater targets including ROVs,…

1st June 2004

Follow That Diver With Easytrak

1st June 2004

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Figures released by the UKs Maritime and Coastguard Agency show that diving related incidents dealt with by HM Coastguard last year had their highest total in the last 12 years, with 12…

1st June 2004

Twelve Year High for Diving Incidents

1st June 2004

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A large vessel laden with cargo was sailing through the English Channel in April when it was involved in a collision and went into the port of Le Havre in need of…

1st June 2004

Underwater Repairs in Le Havre

1st June 2004

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The Poseidon atmosphere full face mask, equipped with the high performance Poseidon Jetstream OP Regulator , can be used both as a positive pressure mask and as a demand valve.

1st June 2004

New Mask

1st June 2004

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SUBSEA SERVICES

Specialist test equipment manufacturer Buckleys (URVAL) Ltd has launched a Marine Survey Kit to enhance its existing underwater corrosion analysis range.

1st June 2004

New Kit for Underwater Corrosion Monitoring

1st June 2004

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Sonardyne Inc of Houston USA has sold two Fusion USBL (Ultra-Short BaseLine) acoustic positioning systems to the US Navy Office of the Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV).

1st May 2004

Precise Underwater Positioning for US Navy

1st May 2004

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When Raymond Ruth, Director of Aberdeen UK based Ruco Limited , saw Sonotronics EMT pingers on show at the recent Oceanology International exhibition in London he immediately saw their potential.

1st May 2004

Pings Can Only Get Better

1st May 2004

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Fareham UK based Subsea Vision reports that they have just successfully completed an environmental seabed inspection and sampling contract for ERT (Scotland) Ltd on behalf of BP that also involved collecting Modiolus…

1st May 2004

Seaeye Falcon Mussel Power

1st May 2004

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The MarCom Working Group 43 at PIANC on ‘ Minimising Harbour Siltation’ is conducting a worldwide search for techniques which have been developed and applied (or at least tested) with a view…

1st April 2004

PIANC Group Seeks Techniques for Reducing Siltation in Harbours

1st April 2004

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A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion that has occurred in unprotected marine structures constructed from steel over the past 20 years or so is to be the subject of a new…

1st April 2004

Joint Project Will Address ALWC

1st April 2004

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West Yorkshire UK based Specialty Welds has received the DTI Smart Award from the British Governments Department of Trade & Industry for its new Hammerhead wet-spot process.

1st February 2004

Hammerhead Awarded for Underwater Welding

1st February 2004

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Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex was asked to carry out a permanent crack repair by an insert on the vertical hull of an 180m long car carrier vessel. It was situated in…

1st February 2004

Midnight Manoeuvres Maintain Mobdock Momentum

1st February 2004

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The result of more than a year of research, development and testing will be revealed on Stand 546 at Oceanology International when Ac-Cess and their engineering partners at All Oceans debut the…

1st February 2004

Concept ROV at Oceanology International

1st February 2004

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Fareham UK based Seaeye Marine has disproved the common assumption that underwater pipeline surveys can only be carried out by large work class ROVs. One of Seaeye s Panther models has been…

1st February 2004

Panther Prowls Pipelines

1st February 2004