According to Coda Octopus, CLE has recently used the Echoscope and Coda Octopus positioning system (F175) on a project for the inspection of underwater cabling. The Echoscope was i...

Developed by UK-based Osiris Projects, the dynamic Remotely Operated Survey Platform (d’ROP) has the potential to revolutionise survey productivity in shallow water tracking and in...

As part of the preparations for the cable laying campaign MMT has completed a cable crossings survey for Kraftnät Åland. The planned submarine cable is 152km long, and will be laid...

The Port of London Authority (PLA, UK) has sealed a deal to put a new purpose-built survey catamaran on the River Thames to replace its existing survey vessel Yantlet. The CTruk MP...

Statnett took over three marine cable connections in Lofoten/Vesterålen, Northern Norway, on 1 January 2015. The cables were owned by Trollfjord Kraft and Lofotkraft and include Ha...

The Gulf of Maine is the first area to be surveyed by NOAA ships in 2015, with a hydrographic project scheduled for about 142 square nautical miles in January and February. NOAA sh...

The NOAA Coast Survey is posting its three-year survey plans and making them publicly available at the Planned NOAA Hydrographic Survey Areas (2015-2017) in ArcGIS Online. In addit...

Using its H-1750 unmanned surface vehicle (USV), Deep Ocean Engineering, USA, has participated in the first comprehensive multibeam survey of the USS Arizona and the USS Utah at th...

UK-based Osiris Projects are close to completion of the work of a large scale cable route survey of the proposed 700+MW HVDC Celtic Interconnector Project between the south coast o...

CodaOctopus, UK, has conducted the necessary survey and research work to demonstrate that the Echoscope is capable of comfortably achieving bathymetric survey data that meets the v...

Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG, Canada), in cooperation with Fukada Salvage and Marine Works (Fukada), has completed a high-resolution controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey...

The OGP Geomatics Committee’s Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM) Task Force has published SeabedML, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML) Application Sc...

Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS), headquartered in the UK, is offering unmanned surface vessels as a solution to the survey industry. Founded by Andrew Waddington to provide a compl...

DeepOcean AS, Norway, has been awarded a contract for seabed survey services for 2015 by Statoil. The contract award supports DeepOcean’s strong position as a provider of advanced...

DeepOcean, UK, took delivery of two TSS 440 and two TSS 350 pipe/cable tracking systems at the start of the summer season and has been using them regularly since then. The systems...

Acteon has announced its takeover of UTEC Survey, an independent survey services business with a global footprint. This move further enhances Acteon’s ability to serve Tier One con...

Offshore Survey, which takes place from 15-16 April 2015 alongside Ocean Business at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK, has announced a call for papers. The commit...

NORTEK is happy to welcome Singapore’s Sea and Land Technologies (SALT) into the Nortek family of global sales and support agents. SALT has recently been appointed NORTEK’s exclusi...

The Oceanscience Z-Boat 1800 remotely-operated hydrographic survey boat has completed final trials with an on-board autonomous waypoint navigation system, and is ready to get surve...

NCS Survey, UK, has been awarded a five-year contract for positioning services with SURF company, Ceona. Mobilisation has been successfully completed on the first vessel, Ceona’s D...

The North Sea Canal in The Netherlands connects the Port of Amsterdam with the sea. The two breakwaters at the mouth of the harbour in IJmuiden are usually monitored on displacemen...

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014 underway to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, continues uninterrupted, according to the Australian Joint...

The first sonar manufacturer has arrived in Plymouth, UK, to start conducting bathymetric and backscatter surveys in Plymouth Sound and Wembury Bay. The aim of the common dataset a...

Partrac, UK, has successfully completed a turbulence survey for the Carbon Trust-managed Turbulence in Marine Environments (TiME) project. According to Partrac, this is the first t...

Unique System FZE (UAE), a division of Unique Maritime Group (UMG), has recently supported a hydrographic project that included the installation of Kongsberg’s EM 2040 multibeam ec...

UVS, an underwater electronics specialist from Australia, has strengthened its commitment to the hydrographic survey market through a number of recent initiatives. Mark Hegarty has...

Version 6 of Coda Octopus Underwater Survey Explorer is now available. This is a major new release of the visualisation and processing software suite for the Echoscope range of rea...

NOAA has awarded new five-year contracts to eight private hydrographic survey companies for projects throughout U.S. coastal waters. Under the new contracts, which cannot exceed US...

Two complete Oceanscience Underway SV systems including the Valeport Rapid SV profiler were recently supplied by Swathe Services (Australia) to IXSurvey Australia ahead of a challe...

Zupt, USA, has proven its capabilities to profile well bores. Using a tool designed and built within 95 days the company recently mapped a well for a major operator onshore. The re...