Subsea Services News – Page 95
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Valeport Tide Gauges for RN
Valeport of Totnes reports a repeat order from the Royal Navy for its Model 740 portable tide gauges, to be used in support of survey applications. Also being supplied are miniSVS sound velocity sensors.
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Multibeam Systems for Colombian Navy
Bremen-based Atlas Hydrographic , in association with Ferrostaal de Colombia, has received an order from the Colombian Navy ''sHydrographic Service for a 30kHz Atlas Hydrosweep MD-2 multibeam echosounder with a depth range of 5,000m in addition to a 200kHz Atlas Fansweep 20 shallow water system combining bathymetric and sidescan imaging ...
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CTG Delivers Subsea Buoyancy Tanks
Composite product specialist CTG has won a contract to supply 16 large carbon composite buoyancy tanks to Thales Geosolutions . The filament-wound carbon fibre epoxy tanks have been designed, developed and manufactured at CTG''s Banbury UK facility.
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NewsIndoor Diving Fun at Ocean Frontier Attraction
Europe''s largest indoor dive pool and techquarium has opened on the site of a former sewage works at Fort William in Scotland. The £ 2.5m Ocean Frontier attraction received funding from a variety of sources, including Lochaber Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , and complements the £ 30m Fort ...
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NewsSales Surge for Shipwreck Oil Recovery System
JLMD Ecologic Group , the French company which has invented and patented the JLMD System for recovering fuel oil from sunken ships, has signed its first three orders for a total of 14 ships after only six weeks of marketing the new product.
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Digital Video Seminar
The Society for Underwater Technology and the Hydrographic Society in Scotland are convening a one-day seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , in Aberdeen on 15 January. It will examine latest developments from the perspective of operators and contractors, including likely benefits of integrating digital video methods ...
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NewsDuke of York Opens New UKHO Archive Centre
The UK Hydrographic Office ''snew £ 3.5m Ritchie Archive building at its Taunton headquarters was formally opened by Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 26 November in the presence of Chief Executive and National Hydrographer Dr Wyn Williams and invited guests.
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Fugro Buys Thales GeoSolutions
Fugro NV , the leading Dutch survey concern with over 250 offices in 57 countries, has acquired Thales GeoSolutions for a reported ? 147.5m.
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Knudsen to Launch Sounders
Canadian echosounder specialist Knudsen Engineering is to premiere two new systems at Oceanology International 2004 at London''s ExCel Centre next March.
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IMCA Survey Document
The London-based International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), which has a worldwide membership drawn from more than 40 countries, has published a set of Terms & Conditions for Survey Support Services based on procedures originally set out in its Offshore Survey Contracting Principles document circulated in April 1999.
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Advanced Multibeam Ice Scour Surveys
Net Survey of Claydon, Oxfordshire reports recent completion of two contrasting projects that have ''pushed the boundaries of multibeam technology'', says Managing Director Duncan Mallace.
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NewsNew RN Ship Commissioned
HMS Enterprise , the second of the Royal Navy''s new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessels, was formally commissioned in the presence of 200 invited guests at Devonport Naval Base on 17 October.
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CARIS Upgrades HPD Database
CARIS , the Canadian leader in software for marine and hydrographic spatial information production and management, has released Version 2.0 of its widely-used Hydrographic Production Database (HPD).
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First ROV Parametric Sounder
Work on what is claimed to be the first parametric echo sounder capable of deployment on ROV''s down to 2000m is now being carried out by Aquadyne AS of Asker, Norway in association with DeepOcean of Haugesund, a major supplier of offshore survey and inspection services to Statoil and Norsk ...
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Metoc-Shell GIS Deal
Metoc of Liphook, Hampshire, has been awarded a five-year contract by Shell UK Expro in Aberdeen for supply of definitive marine data sets in a ready-to-use geographic information system (GIS).
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IHMC UK Completes Strategy Study for CHP
International Hydrographic Management Consulting (IHMC) has completed a study on a long-term strategy for the UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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NewsThales Wins Contract to Support Veritas with SkyFix-XP
Thales GeoSolutions in Chessington has won a $2.7m two-year contract for provision of its SkyFix-XP satellite differential global positioning system (SDGPS) and SkyFix DGPS services to support Veritas Geophysical Corporation''s global fleet of seismic survey vessels operating from Houston, Crawley and Singapore.
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Finnish Navy Orders Fansweep 20 Multi-beam System
Bremen-based Atlas Hydrographic, which recently reported successful trials of its Parasound DS-2 parametric sub-bottom profiler aboard the Russian Academy of Sciences'' research vessel, Akademik Boris Petrov, en route to the Kara Sea near Murmansk, has been commissioned to supply the Finnish Naval Research Institute in Helsinki with a Fansweep 20 ...
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Free DGPS CD from Veritas
Elsewhere on the DGPS front, Veripos is offering Verichart, a free CD-based mapping facility for producing detailed charts of its proprietary Differential GPS HF and Inmarsat-delivered correction service networks for Africa, North West Europe, North and South America, Trinidad and Caspian and Mediterranean offshore areas.
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NewsDivers Deliver Rapid Permanent Repair
Divers from UMC''s Portland UK branch have successfully completed a complex hull plate insert repair to a vessel calling in their home Portland Port.
