CGG, France, and Spectrum, Norway, are jointly launching a large, BroadSeis 3D multi-client survey programme offshore Brazil that will focus on a large proportion of open acreage i...

Researchers from Plymouth University (UK) recently conducted a marine geoarchaeological survey off Methoni, Greece. The survey results from the sidescan survey presented digital so...

The ‘Guidelines for the management of peripheral survey sensors’ (IMCA S 021) have been developed under the direction of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA, UK)...

MacArtney, Denmark, has supplied a major consignment of high-performance oceanographic winches to JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency of Marine-Earth-Science and Technology. The total of...

A mass stranding of melon-headed whales occurred in May-June 2008 in the Loza Lagoon system in Madagascar. About 100 open-ocean mammals mysteriously entered the shallow estuarine s...

The 8th Annual Subsea Survey IMMR conference was held from 11 to 13 November 2013 in Galveston, USA. Featured were 3 keynote speakers, exhibitors showcasing their technologies and...

The first Oceanscience Z-Boat demonstrations in Canada were completed in early November 2013, concluding just as the first big snow of the year started falling. The demonstrations...

In 2013, TerraSond (Alaska, USA) completed a major hydrographic project for NOAA in the Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska for the purpose of nautical chart updating for safety of...

MG3, Iceland, a geoscience survey company operating in both the offshore and coastal environment and providing worldwide marine geophysical, geotechnical and geochemical services,...

DutchWorkboats and Stema Systems are to introduce the ‘Survey-machine’ at Europort 2013. This survey boat is in production once it is on location. This is a concept of a trailerabl...

MMT, Sweden, has invested in two remotely operated towed vehicles (ROTV) equipped with various types of survey equipment for complete geophysical surveys. The systems have been upg...

The group working on Project Contour has already captured underwater photos, videos and acoustic images in Western Crete. It has now taken on the task of mapping and exploring an a...

CGG, France, has completed a second BroadSeis multi-client survey offshore Norway. The survey covers a 2,300 km2 area in the Barents Sea. This second BroadSeis 3D survey is located...

Dolphin Geophysical, Norway, in association with Searcher Seismic, Australia, has commenced a new 3,300km2 3D SHarp BroadBand multi-client seismic survey in the Maud Basin South ar...

Under a contract recently awarded by Repsol Sinopec Brasil, Fugro is to provide geophysical, geotechnical and metocean services to support the development of Block BM-C-33 offshore...

The 70th anniversary of the WWII D-Day invasion will be on 6 June 2014. To commemorate this historic event an expedition took on the monumental task of creating the largest and mos...

Marlink, Norway, has successfully completed delivery of Ku-band VSAT services based on a 12Mbit/s dedicated return link for the Atlantic Explorer, a Petroleum Geo Services (PGS)-ow...

The Fast Trax TTI RTM (Tilted Transverse Isotropy Reverse Time Migration) processed data from CGG’s IBALT broadband full-azimuth survey covering over 50,000km2 (221 blocks) in the...

NCS Survey, UK, has been awarded a five-year contract with AKOFS Wayfarer AS, a Norwegian marine contractor, for the supply of positioning and survey services aboard the Aker Wayfa...

The 8th Annual Subsea Survey IMMR event, to be held from 11 to 13 November 2013 in Galveston, TX, USA, will focus on the opportunities and challenges facing the offshore oil &...

The UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded three multi-year survey contracts to EGS, Gardline Geosurvey and MMT UK following a recent call under the UK Civil Hydro...

With UK-headquartered Calecore’s fleet busy in far-flung regions, spot market vessel the MV Imor has just completed the Lithuanian section of a Baltic Sea Cable route survey. The m...

Survey vessel Borda has left Brest, France, on 31 July 2013 for a hydrographic survey mission to French Guiana. The mission focuses on general bathymetric, tidal and current survey...

Inspection of installed oil and gas pipelines is typically carried out by high frequency sonar and cameras, both of which need to be close to the pipe in order to get useful images...

On 8 July 2013, the Fugro owned survey vessel Fugro Helmert was christened at Fassmer Shipyard in Berne, Germany. Directly after the naming ceremony the vessel was launched. The ve...

Acoustic positioning technology from Sonardyne International, UK, has been selected by De Beers Marine from South Africa to assist in the search for diamonds buried off Namibia and...

UK-based survey company Coastline Surveys has successfully completed the first phase of the permanent installation of a full bathymetric survey suite on board its 24m survey boat,...

Undergraduates in their third year of hydrographic education at the Institute Willem Barentsz in Terschelling, The Netherlands, have recently been surveying in a different location...

Dutch company N-Sea has been awarded a subsea support services contract for Cecon in its Dutch sector campaign for 2013. N-Sea will perform survey and ROV-based construction suppor...

Sonar Equipment Services, a UK-based rental specialist of subsea technology for the offshore energy industry, has taken delivery of two fibre-optic Matrix MK2 survey multiplexers f...