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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…

20th November 2014

Pearl Harbor survey

20th November 2014

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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…

20th November 2014

World’s most expensive workboat?

20th November 2014

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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”.

19th November 2014

Marine investors get into the zone

19th November 2014

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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…

19th November 2014

Expanding mariculture?

19th November 2014

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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…

19th November 2014

KNRM self-righter

19th November 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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…

19th November 2014

UKHO launches ENC Maintenance Record

19th November 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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…

19th November 2014

MMT cable route surveys

19th November 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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.

19th November 2014

New QPS processing suite

19th November 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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…

19th November 2014

IMarEST acquires Hydrographic Academy

19th November 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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,…

19th November 2014

Global audience for Hydro14

19th November 2014

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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.

18th November 2014

Quarter of a million downloads for ECDISregs

18th November 2014

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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…

18th November 2014

Simrad HD family

18th November 2014

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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…

18th November 2014

Renewable demand

18th November 2014

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

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…

18th November 2014

Lidar for the Bell Rock

18th November 2014

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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.

18th November 2014

Navaids chopper contract awarded

18th November 2014

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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…

18th November 2014

Buoys looking buoyant

18th November 2014

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NAVAIDS

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…

17th November 2014

Canada investing

17th November 2014

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Airbus Defence and Space has expanded its Field Service Alliance (FSA) with the recent appointment of five new certified partners. Launched in March 2014 to ensure fast, professional and cost-effective VSAT (Very…

17th November 2014

Airbus expansion

17th November 2014

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Marlink and maritime IT specialist Palantir AS have signed a strategic partnership agreement that will improve access to sophisticated IT services in the maritime industry. Palantir’s IT products complement Marlink parent company…

17th November 2014

Marlink increasing connectivity

17th November 2014

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Griffon Hoverwork, from Southampton, UK, who specialise in the development and manufacture of military, commercial and search and rescue hovercraft, has been revealed as the Medium Employer of the Year 2014 in…

17th November 2014

Apprenticeship Award for Griffon

17th November 2014

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Nominations for the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)-Qinetiq Maritime Innovation Award, which seeks to encourage innovation in all sectors of the maritime industry, are now invited.

17th November 2014

Maritime Innovation Award

17th November 2014

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Australian, Beam Communications, a subsidiary of World Reach Limited announces that they have received Inmarsat approval for its range of IsatDock2 docking stations for the recently released Inmarsat IsatPhone satellite handset.

17th November 2014

Inmarsat in the dock

17th November 2014

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Last summer, the tug ‘Nos Aries’ and crew aiming to recover Europe’s unmanned IXV spacecraft had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. They retrieved a prototype of the suborbital…

17th November 2014

Spacecraft recovery

17th November 2014