Subsea Services News – Page 90
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NewsNew President for IMCA
The International Marine Contractors Association hasappointed Frits Janmatt as its sixth President. Janmatt who is VP for Finance, Legal & Commercial at the Allseas Group , replaces Steve Preston of Heerema Marine Contractors , who steps down after the statutory two years as President.
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NewsVR4Robots Brings ROVs in 3D Worlds to Computer Desktop
Oxford Technologies has launched a low cost virtual reality software to allow subsea and underwater industry engineers to interact with 3D worlds on the desktop.
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NewsSCUBAR Do the Business
Berkshire Fire and Rescue Services in the UK have put the SCUBAR Underwater Scope to good use during recent trials by using it to check for bodies in a car which had crashed off the road into a waterway.
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NewsAAE Acoustic Tracking Orders
Applied Acoustic Engineering of Great Yarmouth reports further significant sales of its Easytrak Portable acoustic tracking system with orders from rental companies Subsea Technologies Inc in the US and Sonar Equipment Services in the UK.
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Veripos Establishes Peruvian DGPS Service
Aberdeen-based Veripos has extended the South American sector of its global Differential GPS service with establishment of new facilities in Peru serving offshore users in the Pacific region. They comprise two land-based reference stations at the coastal cities of Chiclayo and Lima providing rapid update rates and low data latency, ...
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MCA Orders Seabat Multi-Beam
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency has ordered a Reson SeaBat 7125 multibeam echosounder system for installation on its emergency towing vessel, MV Anglian Sovereign . The MCA says the system will enhance the secondary role capabilities of the vessel by adding an object detection capability in support of updating ...
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Primar Stavanger Distributes Italian ENC's
Primar Stavanger international electronic navigational chart service operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service is to distribute Italian ENC''s following an agreement with the Italian Hydrographic Office . Since the organisation has been distributing French, Greek and Spanish ENC''s for some time, introduction of Italian variants means that most of the ...
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AIS Chartware for Felixstowe
Fugro Survey ''s GeoSoft Solutions division , also based in Great Yarmouth, has received an order from the Port of Felixstowe for installation and client specification development of its ChartViewAIS technology.
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Sonardyne's Scout to Guide MoD Surveys
The UK Ministry of Defence has become the first military organisation to commission Sonardyne International ''s new Scout underwater tracking system, which calculates the position of beacon-fitted subsea targets by measuring their ranges and bearings from a vessel mounted transceiver using ultra-short baseline positioning (USBL) methods.
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UKHO-Priar Stavanger Agreement
The UK Hydrographic Office isto include Primar-Stavanger data within its worldwide Admiralty ECDIS and ENC (Electronic Nautical Chart) services, following an agreement signed between the two organisations at the end of March.
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New Sumrad ECDIS
Simrad , part of the Norwegian Kongsberg Group , has announced a new Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), the CS68, a fully Wheelmark approved unit based on a dedicated MC50 marine computer and designed for installation aboard SOLAS category vessels.
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News£1.1m Ashtead Oorder for VT TSS
Signifying what it sees as an upturn in global offshore activity, Ashtead Technology , the Aberdeen-based rental company, has placed an order worth 1.1m with VT TSS ofWatford for four of its latest Marinus attitude and heading reference units together with other proprietary equipment.
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NewsLatest Fugro AUV Launched
Fugro in Aberdeen reports successful trials and launch of its new Hugin 3000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Echo Surveyor, following acceptance tests at Kongsberg Maritime''s base in Horton, Norway.
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Canadian Hydrographic Association Joins IFHS
The Canadian HydrographicAssociation (CHA) has joined the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), the recently established elective international body comprising member organisations of Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, the UK and US.
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INSS Contract Awarded to iXSEA
iXSEA of France has been awarded a contract by the Marine Institute of Ireland for supplyof navigational and positioning systems for use as part of the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) project, currently the worlds largest hydrographic survey venture covering an area of 450,000 square km. The project is ...
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Sonar Finds Hidden Beaches
Sonar studies of the Venice Lagoon have revealed submerged beaches that play a crucial role in preservation of its wetlands following surveys carried out by Southampton Oceanography Centre on behalf of CORILAS (Consortium for Co-ordination of Research Activities for the Venice Lagoon System).
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NewsAirborne Bathymetry In Rivers Breakthrough
In the first instance of a shallow water river environment being successfully mapped by airborne LIDAR survey technology, Woolpert Inc and Fugro Pelagos Inc have completed a survey of the Yakima River in the USA.
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News'QM 2' Ramps up Bridgetown Survey Requirement
The Port of Bridgetown in the Barbados has become one of the premier ports for the booming cruise ship industry operating out of Miami and Port Everglades. Major dredging works completed in May 2002 allow the port to accept vessels of up to 10m draught.
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NewsNewDevelopment in Mobdock Technology
Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex has just adapted a fast, simple and inexpensive way of dealing with underwater work in confined areas, such as a thruster tunnel, where the work in the water needs to be done ''in the dry''.
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IMCA Delivers Dive Boat Guidance
Due to the limited availability of purpose designed ships, there are regions of the world that frequently use vessels of opportunity from which to carry out surface supplied and saturation diving work.
