The UKHO has released the 8th Edition of it’s Mariner’s Handbook. This authoritative reference book has been comprehensively updated throughout. Special features of this edition include: revised information on the...

Imagine piloting a 398m container ship into port TODAY using an ENC updated with survey data collected YESTERDAY. Isn’t this order of turnaround time the ultimate dream of any ENC...

VAdm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., under secretary of commerce for oceans & atmosphere and NOAA administrator unveiled the proposed FY 2006 budget for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The...

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....

The Oceanscience Group Ltd has sold four instrument mounts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These allow an acoustic Doppler current profiler or other instrument to be mounted on...

Environmental systems specialist, Ocean Scientific International Ltd. (OSIL), has shown growth of over 65% in their year end results to June 2005 bringing their annual turnover in excess of £3m...

The Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) is developing a large underwater apparatus to investigate new frontiers in astrophysical research. The NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory, NEMO, consists of a 3D-array...

Whilst there has been an increased effort to resolve the issues of supporting deepwater construction operations, issues specific to shallow-water operations seem to have been largely overlooked, the attitude being...

Shell has awarded a two-year contract to Fugro Geosolutions (Brasil) Serviços De Levantamento, part of the recently formed Fugro Oceansatpeg Joint Venture in Brasil, in which Fugro GEOS will play...

This article is based on the results of a new studyThe AUV Gamechanger Report 2008-2017published by Douglas-Westwood Ltd. This report aims to consider the prospects for this game-changing technology and...