The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of the Japan Coast Guard has purchased a new streamer, SIG 16.12.18, to use in sparker seismic survey. The SIG 16 streamers for JCG are...

Knudsen Engineering Ltd has received a volume order from the US Naval Oceanographic Office at the Stennis Space Centre (Mississippi) for eight 320BR deepwater echosounders, plus spares kits. These instruments...

Kongsberg Maritime has completed the mid-life refit of the hydrographic survey equipment onboard the (Oceanographic Research Vessel) B.I.O Hesperides. The vessel, originally commissioned in 1991 and based in the Antarctic...

The results of recently conducted sea trials with RESON’s SeaBat 8150 full-ocean echosounder system turned out to exceed expectations – both in accuracy and in swath coverage. RESON’s SeaBat 8150...

GITC bv, publisher of Hydro international and the International Hydrographic have launched a new, online hydrographic and oceanographic marketplace called www. ocean-source.com. Another new site, www.hydro-international.com will be launched at...

Fathoms Ltd, based at Langport in Somerset, UK has recently completed the survey for a proposed new container terminal at Flotta in the Orkney Islands. To meet a demanding specification...

Fugro GEOS has won an extension to its real-time oceanographic monitoring programme for Huntsman Tioxide that is helping to improve the local marine environment off the coast of South Africa....

Miros A/S of Asker, Norway, has recently been awarded three important contracts. The first is for 32 Microwave Radar for high-speed ferries, type Miros Microwave Altimeter SM-048/2, ordered by TurboJet...

The Marine & Oceanographic Technology Network (MOTN has announced that it is expanding its membership and is now welcoming both US national and international members to its ranks. MOTN’s charter...

The Southampton Oceanographic Centre (SOC) has ordered a Fusion acoustic positioning system and ‘ROV-Homer’ target relocation system from Sonardyne to provide high accuracy subsea positioning for Isis, the UK’s first...