Safe surveying

In the WASSP system the tender is fitted with a sophisticated multi-beam sounder system that can generate a 3-D picture of the sea bottom

Survey ships and many marine construction vessels are often required to go into areas of shallow water where the chart may not always show reliable information. The margins for safe navigation can be quite small in these circumstances partly because there is little incentive to survey areas that ships do ...

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