Subsea Services News – Page 91
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NERC Orders New Ship
The UK Natural Environment Research Council, which has an annual budget of around £ 300m to fund and undertake impartial research in environmental sciences, has commissioned construction of a new £ 36m 5,000 tonne vessel, James Cook. To be built by Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk in Norway, she will replace ...
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Tsunami Relief Aid Begins
The widespread damage to livelihoods and infrastructures resulting from the magnitude 9 earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra on 26 December has brought a swift response from world aid agencies and organisations, including national hydrographic offices.
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BP-Scripps Agreement
BP has concluded a $3m partnership agreement with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, for a three-year research programme. The initial focus of the programme, say the two organisations, will be to develop and evaluate new technologies for imaging and characterising seafloors and sub-seafloors.
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Primar & IC-ENC Agreement
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and the UK Hydrographic Office , as operators of Primar Stavanger and the International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (IC-ENC) respectively, have signed a letter of intent on closer cooperation for distribution of products.
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2nd International Seabed Acoustics Workshop
German underwater specialist Innomar Technologie is hosting a 2nd international workshop on Seabed Acoustics , in Rostock-Warnemunde from 24-25 February. Following an opening address by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''s Minister for Economic Affairs, F Dorok, there will be a series of presentations by speakers from Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Russia.
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NewsUnmanned Sub With No Engine
Spray , a novel unmanned glider-type submarine with no engine has recently completed extensive crossings of open seas measuring salinity, temperature and pressure in the Gulf stream between the surface and 1,000m depths every seven hours.
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Calls for Satellite Alernative
Concerns over what UK Shipping Minister David Jamieson has called the ''vulnerability'' of satellite navigation systems means that a terrestrial alternative is needed, he said. Jamieson made the comments during recent launch of a document setting out the UK and Ireland''s strategy for navaids to 2020. He announced that the ...
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Force Be With You Underwater
Force Dredging Systems (FDS) has recently completed a successful hire contract in the Caspian Sea which involved clearing drill mud cuttings and debris away from the base of a production jacket and placing them in a specified dumpsite some 60m to 80m away. Once FDS'' Superstream Dredging System had cleared ...
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NewsNearshore Project for New Pipe Tracker
The ShengLi Oilfield has purchased two advanced TSS440 pipe trackers for use with its new pipelay plough. The two pipe trackers have been supplied by UK company VT TSS Ltd and fitted to the front and rear of the tracked plough. Designed and built by ShengLi Oilfield engineers, the plough ...
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News'Redeemer' Adds Diving to Activities List
Seeing what at first appears to be a modern sport fisherman with an Effer knuckle boom crane mounted to port amidships makes the viewer wonder how big a fish the crew is after. However, appearances can be deceiving and Falmouth UK based Bay Marine ''s 37'' vessel Redeemer is in ...
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Hydro4 Proceedings Available
Proceedings of its Hydro4 symposium in Galway last month attended by delegates from over 30 countries are now available from the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies , formerly The Hydrographic Society .
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NewsSeaBats for Bristol and London
The Port of Bristol has completed installation of a Reson SeaBat 8101 multibeam echosounder on its survey vessel, Isambard Brunel .
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Veripos Extends DGPS Network to Asia-Pacific Regions
Aberdeen-based Veripos has extended its dual-frequency satellite-delivered Differential GPS service for offshore users in Asia-Pacific regions with establishment of new operational facilities in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
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Swathe Bathymetry Seminar
The Southampton Institute is to stage a third Swathe Bathymetry seminar on multibeam and other sounding methods, at its Sir James Matthews Conference Centre from 18-19 January.
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News'Xplorer' Returns from Wreck Surveys
The hydrographic survey vessel Xplorer , operated by Portsmouth UK based Sea-Trax , has just completed a six month contract surveying designated protected wreck sites between Northern Ireland and Falmouth.
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Federation of Societies Formed
The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), a newly constituted organisation serving the worldwide interests of hydrography at all levels of expertise, has been formally established as the successor body of the Hydrographic Society.
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NewsNew Gardline Vessel
At Hydro4 , Gardline Environmental announced an extension to its inshore survey capability with the acquisition of Coastal Surveyor , a specialist vessel equipped with a comprehensive suite of equipment which includes a Simrad EM3000 multibeam system, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and magnetometer.
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Coastline of England and Wales 'Becoming Steeper'
The coastline of England and Wales has become steeper and is undermining coastal defences against flooding and erosion, according to research published by Dr Nigel Pontee, a senior coastal scientist at Halcrow in the UK.
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Autotracker's Successful Trials
Subsea 7''s Integrated Remote Technologies Division in Aberdeen has successfully completed a second series of in-water trials of its Geosub AUV fitted with a custom-built Autotracker module for highspeed, low-altitude pipeline inspection. Sponsored by BP, the trials were carried out in Scapa Flow, Orkney following earlier ones in Peterhead Bay.
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New Admiralty ECDIS Service Due December
The UK Hydrographic Office is to launch its new Admiralty ECDIS service in December.
