Seawork encounter confirms research connections
Dr Emre Otay, from Bogazici University in Istanbul, was visiting the UK for a holiday with his family in June when they saw the Seawork exhibition advertised locally in Southampton.
As his field of research concerned tsunami waves generated by earthquakes, he decided it might be worth a visit to the show to investigate suitable hydrographic surveying equipment.
During his visit to the Ohmex stand it was mentioned that Professor Costas Synokalis from University of Southern California had used the Ohmex HydroLite equipment for the 2006 BBC documentary entitled ‘The wave that destroyed Atlantis’. The film suggested that the fall of the Minoan civilisation in 1600 BC may have been the result of a tsunami caused by an eruption of Mount Thera, located near Professor Synokalis’ original home of Crete.
It turned out that both academics knew each other and were friends from their work together in the USA. Dr Otay asked if it would be possible to incorporate the HydroLite with his department’s existing surveying equipment. Ohmex suggested his local agent, Kordil, could help and even provide a version of Ohmex software with local Turkish support and documentation.
It turned out that Harun Karaman of Kordil had even visited Dr Otay’s civil engineering department the week prior to taking his holiday in England and his subsequent visit to Seawork, a further addition to the rich fabric of connections the event always generates.
