Subsea Services News – Page 97
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NewsNorwegian Innovators Bring 'Magnetic Plasters' to seawork
The UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has recently purchased a significant quantity of magnetic plasters from new seawork exhibitor Miko Marine AS . The Norwegian company has developed, patented and marketed a heavy duty magnetic tarpaulin called Miko Plaster , which provides a temporary watertight seal over hull openings such ...
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Redmariner Takes Flight to seawork2003
Exhibiting at seawork for the first time this year is the new marine equipment supplier Redmariner Ltd , an offshoot of the well known aviation company Red Box International .
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Briggs Lands Three Year Scots Submarine Cable Contract
Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd has been awarded a three year contract to maintain over 100 submarine cable connections for utilities firm Scottish and Southern Energy plc (S&S).
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NewsSuccess for 'Kursk' Upgraded Russian Navy Rescue Service
The Russian Navy Rescue Service have successfully completed a two week operation locating and recovering a Pacific Fleet Ka-27 naval helicopter and its crew that was lost in the Sea of Japan. This was the first operation of its kind to bring together the Russian Navy''s new equipment, technology and ...
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NewsSurge for Seacore's Site Investigation Service
Since developing its original drilling capability into a total site investigation service last year, Seacore has completed five separate geotechnical marine site investigation contracts for offshore oil and gas projects in the North Sea. Four of these projects were carried out using the company''s own in-house designed C100 drill mounted ...
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Veripos DGPS Encryption
Veripos, a subsidiary of Aberdeen-based Subsea 7, is nearing completion of a programme aimed at safeguarding the rights and privileges of users of its European HF Differential GPS network by encrypting signals to prevent unauthorised access.
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NewsUS-Dutch AUV Begins Service
Echo Ranger, a new advanced unmanned autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for deepwater surveying jointly developed by Dutch-based Fugro NV and Boeing and Oceaneering International Inc of the US, has begun service for clients in the Gulf of Mexico.
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German Hydrographic Society Conference
The German Hydrographic Society (DHyG) is to stage its 18th annual conference in Vienna from 16-18 June.
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OMGMultibeam Course
The University of New Brunswick''s Ocean Mapping Group in Canada is convening a specialist Multibeam surveying course at Southampton Oceanography Centre from 16-21 June. Lecturers include leading multibeam experts from Canada and the US.
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EA 600 Sounder Upgraded
Kongsberg Simrad of Norway has upgraded its EA 600 single-beam echosounder for deepwater surveys over depths down to 11,000m, depending on transducer arrangements. The system now features a higher ping rate with accompanying better accuracy in addition to providing an advanced and synchronized passive mode for depth measurements using a ...
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VT TSS Relocation in July
Motion sensor specialist VT TSS (UK) is to relocate this July from Witney, Oxfordshire to the Watford premises of associate company, S G Brown.
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IESSG Funding Grants
The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4.
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Century of Global Tidal Records Archive Inherited
Archival news from Liverpool Museum, which has inherited a century of global tidal records from Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston (formerly the Liverpool Observatory & Tidal Institute).
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NewsNew Royal Navy Survey Vessel Comissioned
HMS Echo, the UK Royal Navy''s new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessel, was formally commissioned at a ceremony in Devonport on 7 March. Built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Bideford under contract to Vosper Thornycroft, the 3,500dwt, 90.6m-long vessel will begin operational deployment later this year; it will also be ...
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New Joint Venture Company Established
Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a ''technology hothouse for the marine industry'' according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at Whitstable, Kent. It''s an amalgam of Verhaert of Antwerp, Belgium, 02 Marine Services in Kent and Fairwater Technology ...
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Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments
A new conference, ''Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments, '' is to take place on September 11 2003 at the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Silsoe, UK.
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UKHO Routeing Charts
The UK Hydrographic Office at Taunton has published the first of a series of five routeing charts with updated meteorological data, initially covering the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and a greater overlap of the Indian Ocean.
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BGS Bathymetric Software
The British Geological Survey has released the first version of a vector-attributed digital bathymetry software covering UK and adjacent European waters, DigiBath 250.
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Electronic Chart Handbook
The Electronic Chart: Functions, Potential & Limitations of a New Marine Navigation System is the title of a new specialist handbook from GITC of the Netherlands, publishers of the monthly Hydro International.
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NewsNewSonardyne Transponder
Underwater acoustics specialist Sonardyne International has developed a new subsea transponder, Compatt 5.
