The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), a collaboration of fifteen federal agencies, has funded the first of two projects provided as a US contribution to the international Global Ocean Data...

Ixsea Oceano has opened two offices in the US to provide commercial and technical support for local customers. The main office is in Burlington on the outskirts of Boston MA,...

Fugro GEOS has successfully completed an oceanographic programme measuring surface and internal waves in the Makassar Strait, offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia for the Total E&P Indonesia-Donggala project. The measurements were...

Autonomous Surface Vehicles Ltd, with Seaspeed Technology Ltd, have exhibited the first 5.5-metre Survey Autonomous Semi-Submersible (SASS) vehicle. SASS vehicles are used to collect survey or surveillance data of all...

Ormond Beach physicist Dr James L. Cairns is this year’s recipient of the Marine Technology Society’s Compass Distinguished Achievement Award. Established in 1966, this Award is given annually to one...

ATLAS Hydrographic, in association with Ferrostaal de Colombia, has been contracted by the Colombian Navy's Hydrographic Service to supply ATLAS HYDROSWEEP MD-2 30kHz 5000m and ATLAS FANSWEEP20 200kHz shallow water...

Robert Ward has been promoted to the rank of Captain and appointed Director of Hydrographic Operations and Capability at the Australian Hydrographic Office and Deputy Commander of the NavyÕs Hydrographic,...

Knudsen Engineering Ltd is to fulfil a volume order from the US Naval Oceanographic Office at the Stennis Space Center (Mississippi), including eight 320BR deepwater echosounder plus spares kits. These...

Coastal Oceanographics Inc. has made available HYPAC MAX version 2.12a Gold, a hydrographic software package used for survey design, data collection, graphical editing, plotting, volume computations, surface modelling and contouring....

The latest sound velocity sensor from Applied Microsystems Ltd. (AML) offers new hi-tech features in the smallest of packages. Available from OSIL, the Micro SV is constructed from new materials...