Subsea Services News – Page 30
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NewsBattery power at 6,000m below
The development of a lightweight, pressure tolerant battery promises to quite literally ‘open up’ very deep-water AUV designs, Guillaume de Forton of Oxis Energy told MJ.
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NewsCentury-old wreck uncovered while performing routine Port Company survey
Emily Hand, Hydrographic Surveyor at the Bristol Port Company tells the interesting tale of uncovering the wreck of the ‘Brunswick’ a metal-hulled cargo vessel lost off the UK’s Port of Bristol in 1900 and rediscovered in 2017.
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NewsCheetah’s new hydro vessel handed over to new French owners
Cheetah Marine’s latest 7.9m hydro survey vessel has been put through its paces during a location handover & training programme with her new team in the south of France.
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NewsSurvey for subsea power link underway
A survey for a proposed subsea and underground power transmission link to improve security of supply between England and France is underway.
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NewsSRS development for mobilisation
As efforts to find missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan are increased, new submarine rescue systems (SRS) are being built.
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Exploiting the use of drones in the marine sector
A new European start-up company is creating a drones portal to better promote opportunities for marine businesses and investors.
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NewsLive remote monitoring first for divers
A new live remote-control technology allows users to operate underwater vehicles and cameras remotely from anywhere in the world as long as they have a browser enabled device.
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NewsHydrographic survey sonar vessel order
Tuco Marine Group will provide two hydrographic survey vessels with sonar equipment for DALO (The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization).
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NewsSubsea sector could provide a leg up
“The UK pioneered much of the technology that enables oil and gas production from challenging environments due to the experience we gained in exploiting the North Sea resources,” said Gordon Drummond, project director of the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI).
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News8-propeller flying and diving drone
What has eight propellers, is as much at home in the air as underwater - and could change the face of all kinds of port and ocean operations?
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NewsFuture of underwater craft may be hydrogen
Spanish firm Jalvasub Engineering is working with a number of partners on providing hydrogen and fuel cell power systems for a range of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
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Leadership change at DeepOcean
Netherlands based subsea service provider DeepOcean will get a new man at the top after its current CEO stepped down.
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NewsRaising the bar in wireless diving communications
A wireless personal area network for divers has been expanded to include diver to diver communication raising the bar in underwater wireless control systems.
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NewsGarmin’s first wearable dive computer featuring surface GPS
Garmin’s Descent Mk1 allows divers to plan dives on the watch itself and use GPS waypoints to automatically mark dive entry and exit points to upload a dive log. The Descent Mk1 also offers multiple dive modes, 3-axis compass, in-dive data, as well as additional multi-sport functions like wrist-based heart ...
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NewsOcean Business 2019 – 80% sold with 18 months still to go
With still more than 18 months until the show is due to take place at the National Oceanography Centre, in Southampton UK from 9th - 11th April 2019, the organisers of Ocean Business say they have been overwhelmed by how quickly re-bookings have been flooding in.
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NewsWorld's first USV-supported cable route survey
ASV Global and TerraSond recently successfully completed the world''s first-ever seabed cable route survey supported by an unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
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ABP Humber takes delivery of R2Sonic 2024
Swathe Services has delivered a multibeam sonar solution to the Hydrographic Department at Associated British Ports Humber.
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NewsFinnish Transport Agency selects CARIS software suite
With many lakes, an archipelagic sea and an estimated 40,000 islands, Liikennevirasto - the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) - has a large and complex portfolio of navigational charts to maintain.
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Sonardyne supplies Magseis with seismic node positioning equipment
The Norwegian seismic services provider, Magseis has awarded the UK subsea technology manufacturer, Sonardyne International Ltd, a major contract for seabed node acoustic positioning technology to support its expanding deepwater survey activities and its vision for fully-automated node handling and efficient back-deck Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) operations.
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NewsPolar research aircraft marks tenth year in service
The German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has marked the tenth anniversary of the introduction to service of its Polar 5 research aircraft.
