CMS-Geotech, UK, has launched its operations base in Lowestoft, Suffolk providing specialist marine geotechnical support to a wide variety of marine sectors in both offshore & coastal waters. CMS-Geotech will...

MMT, Sweden, has been awarded the SK4 & NorNed protection survey contract by Statnett, Norway. The aim of the offshore survey is to provide Statnett with a Terrain Model (DTM)...

MacArtney took the occasion of Oceanology International to introduce the FLEXUS, a versatile data capture system. Based on a simple and rugged yet extremely flexible remotely operated towed vehicle, the...

A large AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) survey in the oil and gas industry forms a core element of two contracts awarded to Fugro that also include metocean measurements and geohazard...

Prior to driving piles into the sub-seabed to serve as foundations for wind turbines, it is critical to ensure that the chosen locations are free from boulders and geohazards. At...

OSIL, headquartered in the UK, is reporting a high level of interest in relation to its Giant Piston Corer, which offers the ability to retrieve core samples up to 30m...

Radiocarbon dates of tiny fossilised marine animals found in Antarctica’s seabed sediments offer new clues about the recent rapid ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and are helping...

EMU Limited's expanded geotechnical services were put to the test recently when the company successfully completed more than 1,000 cone penetration tests along the cable routes of a number of...

A British engineering team is heading off to Antarctica for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres...

On 11th March 2011, Japan's largest island, Honshu, was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake. It was triggered by a convulsive release of tension that had built up through the...