Subsea Services News – Page 66
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UKHO award for French hydrographer
Gilles Bessero, the outgoing French Hydrographer, is the recipient of the UK Hydrographic Office’s fifth Alexander Dalrymple Award, presented at a recent ceremony at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Singapore attended by the UK National Hydrographer, Rear-Admiral Ian Moncrieff.
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Wideband sonar UK debut
Claimed to be the world’s first true wideband high resolution shallow water multibeam sounder, US company R2Sonic’s Sonic 2024 is set for demonstrations to UK hire customers for the first time by Swathe Services of Saltash.
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Marine Measurement Forum
Environmental system specialists Planet Ocean in Surrey are to host the 47th Marine Measurement Forum at the Village Hotel, Farnborough on Thursday 18 November.
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Fathoms finds siltation rates
Fathoms, the Somerset and Caithness UK based survey company has successfully completed four interesting and challenging bathymetric surveys in Kenya for the implementation of the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Project.
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World Hydrography Day
The Hydrographic Offices and agencies of France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK are among leading European organisations expected to mark the UN sponsored World Hydrography Day on 21 June with a series of commemorative functions.
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NewsUnderwater digital camera technology advance
Kongsberg Maritime launched its most advanced underwater digital stills camera at the Ocean Business 2011 technology exhibition in Southampton UK last month.
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NewsDonald Duck decoded on Discovery Channel
International diving equipment technology company Divex, has provided assistance to the Discovery Channel for a Mighty Ships episode they are currently working on.
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NewsNewest Panther packs more punch
The new Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV has quickly become a top seller for the company, with four systems already sold for delivery this year.
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NewsNew Gardline vessel mobilised
Geophysical and hydrographic survey specialists Gardline Geosurvey of Great Yarmouth UK have added to their vessel fleet with mobilisation of MV Ivero.
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NewsOsiris’ investments herald offshore growth
Osiris Marine Services, the UK based subsea engineering and commercial diving company, has invested £380k in new bespoke equipment that will launch the business into the next stage of its growth plan.
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NewsNew S-Boom delivers triple the power
Great Yarmouth UK based underwater technology company Applied Acoustics launched an entirely new sub-bottom profiling boomer plate at the recent Ocean Business exhibition in Southampton.
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Swathe Services offers LiDAR capability
Equipment rental specialist Swathe Services of Saltash in Cornwall UK, which recently acquired a third Sonic 2024 broadband multibeam system from R2Sonic in California, is to provide an airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) service for coastal and shallow water mapping under a newly formed subsidiary, SAS Ltd.
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NewsDivers raise Normandy landing vessel
UK diving specialist Falmouth Divers Ltd has raised the former Normandy landing vessel Yarmouth Navigator, which sank with the loss of one life at the end of January 2011 in Cattewater, Plymouth UK.
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Anglo-Swedish alliance
Marin Mätteknik AB (MMT) of Gothenburg, Sweden and NetSurvey of Banbury in the UK have merged their operations, having closely collaborated on various hydrographic survey assignments during the last six years.
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NewsNorwegian pipeline inspection record
What is claimed to be the world’s longest multi-sensor AUV pipeline survey has recently been completed in the Hjelte fjord near Bergen, Norway.
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Irish exploration opportunities
The Irish government, which recently announced €150,000 funding of a wave energy research project, is now inviting applications from exploration companies of all sizes to identify and promote investigative projects in its under-explored sectors of the Atlantic.
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Anglo-Dutch merger
3D and 4D visualisation specialists IVS 3D of Banbury, UK are to merge with QPS of Zeist, the Netherlands, makers of QINSy data acquisition software in worldwide use for hydrographic applications.
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Pilot units and electronic charts seminar
Problems associated with port usage of Portable Pilot Units (PPUs) together with electronic charts and precise positioning is to be the subject of an afternoon seminar at Southampton Solent University’s Conference Centre on 12 May.
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Marine Measurement Forum
Chelsea Technologies Group of West Molesey, Surrey, which recently delivered a novel 6m long acoustic array to the Norwegian University of Science & Technology for communication studies in Trondheim Fjord, is hosting the 48th UK Marine Measurement Forum on Wednesday 18 May.
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NewsApplied Acoustics keeps on tracking at Seawork
The very latest subsea tracking system from Applied Acoustics made a last minute entry onto the Applied Acoustics’ stand at Seawork this year.
