Subsea Services News – Page 94
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Norway Insists on High Speed Craft ECDIS
The Norwegian Maritime Directorate in Oslo is to compel all high-speed craft (HSC''s) and vessels with hazardous cargoes to carry IMO-compliant electronic charts by 2007. As a first stage, it intends to require all HSC''s of any flag operating along the Norwegian coast to carry an approved Ecdis when sailing ...
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Simrad Multibeam for Fugro
Kongsberg-Simrad has received an order for a second EM 300 deepwater multibeam echosounder from Fugro Survey of Aberdeen. It is being installed on the survey vessel, Fugro Meridian and will complement a similar unit operational aboard Fugro ''s Geo Prospector .
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Marine Seismic Survey Database
Supported by EU funding, Euroseismic is a new central meta-database for geophysical data derived from marine seismic surveys for European seas which is now available on the internet www. eu-seased. net Based on data held by marine departments of European geological survey organisations and their partners, it comprises data-entry with ...
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NewsSonardyne Fusion for MBARI ROV'S
Sonardyne International ofYateley reports acquisition of two of its Fusion USBL (Ultra-Short Baseline) acoustic tracking systems by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) to provide high-accuracy subsea positioning for its two deepwater ROV''s, Ventana and Tiburon .
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New Octopus Heave Processing
Octopus iHeave , a new processing suite for long-period ocean swell compensation, is available from Coda Octopus of Deddington for free integration with its Octopus F180 precision attitude and positioning system.
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Hammerhead Awarded for Underwater Welding
West Yorkshire UK based Specialty Welds has received the DTI ''Smart'' Award from the British Government''s Department of Trade & Industry for its new Hammerhead wet-spot process.
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NewsNo Trouble with Double Rubble
UMC International ''s Fujairah team have recently provided a permanent solution for corrosion damage to the flat bottom hull plating of a tanker that was more extensive than had been budgeted for.
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NewsMidnight Manoeuvres Maintain Mobdock Momentum
Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex was asked to carry out a permanent crack repair by an insert on the vertical hull of an 180m long car carrier vessel. It was situated in Le Havre and the work was to be done over a weekend.
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NewsConcept ROV at Oceanology International
The result of more than a year of research, development and testing will be revealed on Stand 546 at Oceanology International when Ac-Cess and their engineering partners at All Oceans debut the AC-ROV.
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NewsPanther Prowls Pipelines
Fareham UK based Seaeye Marine has disproved the common assumption that underwater pipeline surveys can only be carried out by large work class ROVs. One of Seaeye ''s Panther models has been fully fitted out for the task by CCC Underwater Engineering in Abu Dhabi.
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Solent Surveys Completed
High-resolution swathe, sidescan sonar and magnetometer surveys in the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire have been successfully completed by Gardline Environmental on behalf of Southern Water and its consultants, J P Kenny . The Great Yarmouth company was retained to identify and map recent damage to a ...
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New ECA ROV
French ROV specialists ECA of Toulon have announced development of a new 3,000m depth-rated system, the Alistar 3000. Designed for deepwater inspection tasks, it is claimed to offer operators greater flexibility and faster operation compared with other systems requiring important infrastructure and equipment aboard a ship.
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News$10 Million Contracts Awarded to Subsea 7
Swiss-based Allseas Group has awarded Subsea 7 ofAbedeen contracts worth in excess of $10m for provision of survey, ROV and positioning services in support of offshore pipelay projects in North West Europe, the Mediterranean, the US and the Caribbean over this year and next, with an additional option for 2006.
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NewsHydroacoustic Solutions at Oceanology International
Oceanology International 2004 , the world''s largest Ocean Technology event will play host to Simrad ''s highly developed range of professional echosounder technology on Stand 243. In addition Simrad in the UK will be focusing on a sophisticated new seafloor mapping system - the Olex 3D chart system.
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Oceanology Exhibition is a Major Attraction
With over 90% of exhibition space already reserved by more than 300 organisations from around the world, this year''s biennial Oceanology International event at London''s ExCel Centre from 16-19 March promises to be a major attraction for hydrographic and oceanographic communities, say organisers Spearhead Exhibitions.
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NewsTake a Long Look at 'Shorty'
Kongsberg Maritime will launch several new products and focus on its range of underwater survey solutions on Stand 650 at this year''s Oceanology International exhibition . The company will launch a new modular ''Short MPT transponder'', depth rated for 4000m in response to the demand from the Offshore Survey & ...
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Partrac Secures Sediment and Particle Tracking Work
Partrac , a recently formed UK-based company, which provides sediment transport consultancy and sediment impact monitoring on a worldwide basis, says it has won several contracts since it was formed in September of last year.
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Test Facilities for Transponders
Sonardyne invites users to ''do more with their Super Sub-Mini (SSM) transponders'' by acquiring new firmware for testing and configuring a host of proprietary subsea positioning transponders.
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NewsVideo Mosaicing Technology Will Expedite Seabed Mapping
Underwater navigation software originally developed for the Royal Navy is set to benefit home users of camcorders and digital video, says QinetiQ , Europe''s largest science and technology organisation employing over 9,000 personnel across the UK and US.
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New HYPACK Software
United States-based Coastal Oceanographics Inc , developers of widely-used software for marine surveying, positioning and navigation, has announced availability of a new HYPACK MAX version 2.12a Gold program for survey design, data collection, graphical editing, plotting, volume computations, surface modelling and contouring.
