A future article in Hydro international will describe our recent multi-beam survey of the Dead Sea. This brief overview extols the virtues of renting a complete multi-beam system as opposed...

The Dirección General Adjunta de Hidrografía y Cartografía (DIGADHICAR) was established in 1960, when it began with the compilation and reproduction of charts based on publications from the USA Navy....

News Sitting on the Bench? Until now you might have thought that the invitation to contribute appearing under the above headline applied only to elderly retired surveyors sitting on a...

The Hydrographic Department was established in 1949 and Pakistan became member of IHO in 1957. As a national hydrographic organisation the department is primarily responsible for conducting hydrographic surveys of...

As UK manufacturer of oceanographic and hydrometric instrumentation, Valeport has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Dartmouth, Devon (UK) some 38 years ago. Innovation and quality has...

The single buoy mooring (SBM) digital radio shutdown system is the latest ‘state-of-the-art’ digital radio communication system/network, consisting of a fixed radio base station installation at Halul Island (State of...

A system for precise seafloor positioning using GPS/Acoustic Combination Technique has been developed by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard, in close collaboration with the Institute of Industrial...

In 1999, the oil companies BP, Amoco, and Shell jointly published a document detailing the industry requirement for a survey AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) that stated: "For industry to adopt...

Valeport will be launching ‘Mini’ products at Ocean Business in March 2007. Responding to the success of Valeport’s Mini Sound Velocity and Pressure sensor, the miniSVS, the company has developed...

An EdgeTech 2400-DSS deep-towed side-scan sonar system, owned and operated by Odyssey Marine Exploration, was used to find a shipwreck code-named the "Black Swan" which yielded over 500,000 silver and...