Twenty 3rd-year students of ocean technology from the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB, The Netherlands) participated in the 4th edition of the Lake Survey. Building on last year’s experience and...

The 2015 April issue of Hydro International considered the contribution of Forward-looking Sonar (FLS) to safer navigation in inadequately charted waters. Certain polar waters fall in this category; in recognition, some...

Unique Group’s wholly owned company GSE Rentals, UK, has recently sold a new Applanix POS MV SurfMaster and POSPac Software suite to its client, Insight Marine Projects. This system allows for...

The hydrographic survey industry is changing and moving away from manned operations in an effort to reduce costs and increase safety. During the Shallow Water Survey 2015 conference this new...

TerraSond, a hydrographic services company based in Palmer, Alaska (USA), utilised an unmanned Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) to assist with the acquisition of survey data in July of 2015 in...

This last year has seen an increase in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) sales and prospects for new sales. The lower than usual oil price may be responsible for much of...

Kongsberg Maritime Ltd, UK, has completed the APOS Survey installation on Bibby Offshore’s long-term charter vessel, the Olympic Bibby. The APOS Survey operator station enables surveyors to leverage the power of...

20-year-old Emma Lamont recently graduated and was top of her class in the Hydrographic Survey Category B course with Skilltrade in the Netherlands. Emma joined Bibby HydroMap in 2012 as...

The multibeam echo sounders available on the market are constantly evolving as technology advances and as sonar producers seek new ways of refining and utilising the products. In this article...

James Fisher (UK) has successfully deployed subsea export cables as part of the initial construction phase (Phase 1A), in support of MeyGen Limited’s (MeyGen) 398MW tidal array, at Pentland Firth,...