Subsea Services News – Page 84
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New DVRs from NETmc Marine
73fifty, a new range of low cost digital video recorder/players which can typically download a half hour file in less than four minutes for marine as well as ROV and diving inspection operations, has been launched by NETmc Marine of Aberdeen.
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Subsea 07
Aberdeen''s ,Exhibition & Conference Centre is the venue for what is claimed to be Europe''s largest subsea event, Subsea 07, on Thursday 8 February. Over 80 exhibitors and 800 visitors are expected to participate in the day long proceedings aimed at bringing together operators, contractors, suppliers and small niche technology ...
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NewsABPmer Reaps Environmental Award
ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer), Associated British Ports''Southampton-based marine research arm, was commended at the Environment Agency''s Project Excellence Awards when it was awarded Joint-Runner-Up in the ''Innovation and Technical Excellence'' category.
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NewsSystems Innovation for Dive Support Vessel
Through its Norwegian subsidiary Draeger Safety Norge, Draeger Safety has been contracted to take on the project management, planning, construction and delivery of a complete deep sea diving system, including extensive safety facilities and breathing gas logistics, for a Norwegian diving support vessel used in the offshore industry.
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NewsWet Weld Advances Boost Diver Training
Keeping pace with increasing demand for underwater wet welding services, Fred Mc Nally, managing director of Birkenhead UK based FJ Marine Services Ltd, has again called upon the training services provided by long-time associate David Keats of Specialty Welds Ltd.
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NewsRealistic ROV Simulator Launched
Hawaii based Marine Simulation LLC has released ROVsim, an affordable, physics accurate, and visually realistic Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) simulator. Using state of the art technologies originally developed for the video game industry and over two decades of hands-on industry experience, ROVsim? is optimized to simulate a wide range of ...
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NewsLiverpool's Survey Boat is a 'Wildcat'
The Port of Liverpool has awarded the contract to supply a new hydrographic survey vessel to Irish workboat and pilot boat builder Safehaven Marine. Following an international tender process Safehaven Marine’ s Wildcat catamaran design was chosen. Ian Holden, the Port’ s hydrographic manager opted for a twin hull design ...
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NewsSonar Survey Finds Lost U-Boats
A routine Maritime & Coastguard Agency sonar survey off the Orkney Islands has led to the chance discovery of uncharted wrecks of two first world war German submarines which were originally reported missing in 1918 after apparently sinking somewhere in the Northern Barrage, a British minefield between Orkney and Shetland.
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Subsea Wireless Modem
A wireless modem capable of operating underwater which can also relay signals out of water has reportedly been developed by Wireless Fibre Systems of Livingston in Scotland. It will clearly be of interest to, among others, divers and AUVs transmitting data to waiting vessels.
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Echo Sounder Sensor
Innovation4C of Belgium has developed ''Wavemapper'', a heave sensor designed for single beam echosounders based on technology used for space applications.
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Sonar Tubes Factory Opens
Morgan Electro Ceramics has opened a new facility at its site in Southampton, UK, dedicated to the design and manufacture of fibre wrapped piezoceramic tubes that are used in commercial and military sonar instruments. The facility, which is the only one of its kind in the UK, has been set ...
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NewsMott MacDonald to Lead ALWC Effort
Mott MacDonald is to act as lead partner for a research and development project supported by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the UK which it is hoped will produce a cost effective treatment for Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC). The project, ''Enhancing the performance of pulsed current ...
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NewsAcoustic Advances Aid Diver Safety
Oceanteam 2000 Ltd (ot2k) has deployed the Easytrak underwater tracking and positioning system from Applied Acoustic Engineering for mattress laying operations to protect power cables running from the offshore wind farm at Scroby in the North Sea.
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NewsSonardyne USBL System for Norway
Yateley UK based Sonardyne International, in association with its local representatives, Aquadyne AS, has delivered its latest Ranger USBL (Ultra-Short Baseline) acoustic positioning system to Artec Subsea AS of Norway.
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Dutch Ocean Group Formed
Nearly 20 leading domestic institutes, agencies and companies concerned with oceanography and related disciplines in Holland have pooled their resources and expertise as part of a new consortium recently established in Delft, the Dutch Ocean Group.
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NMA's Visitor Friendly ROVs
Atlantas Marine of Yeovil UK has supplied two of its VideoRay Pro lll ROVs to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Equipped with Tritech sonars and manipulators, both are now a major feature in the NMAs ExplorOcean water tank where visitors are able to race them against other mini-ROVs over ...
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Offshore Survey 07
Its joint organisers, Intelligent Exhibitions and TMS International, say that speakers will be drawn from leading international oil and gas organisations as well as global contractors and service providers along with government and academic institutions.
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NewsNew UK Hydrographer
new Chief Executive of the UKHO, he will be responsible for the organisation''s key role within the world hydrographic community while also overseeing the Government''s own responsibilities for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency under the UN Convention of Safety of Life at Sea.
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Headline: Spain Extends Multibeam Capabilities
The new system utilises CHIRP technology to obtain extended survey coverage from shorelines to continental rises at depths down to 6,000m. It also provides high density signal processing in addition to increased numbers of soundings for improved resolution. By DAVID GOODFELLOW
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Marimatech Boosts sounder Memory
Danish survey and positioning systems specialist Marimatech has increased the data capacity of its widely used E-Sea Sound MP 35 series of dual channel echosounders with the addition of up to 8 GB storage via flash memory.
