During the 1990s De Beers Marine identified a major business opportunity in radically improving its geological modelling capability. It set up a project to deliver the necessary geophysical systems and...

For attaining high-resolution echo-prints, echosounding equipment must fulfil certain requirements regarding directivity, pulse length and other properties possible to achieve using non-linear acoustics. One important problem in sediment acoustics is...

Who hasn’t heard of the mega projects currently being executed in Dubai? Land reclamation projects that can be seen from space and skyscrapers that reach 800 meters high are not...

Mariners were one of the first public groups to adopt GPS in its early days Ð nearly twenty years ago. The next leap forward in the acceptance and widespread use...

In common with all sciences, hydrography too is undergoing rapid change with regard to data acquisition and processing, instrumentation, application and many other aspects. Differing ideas may be found within...

Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) announces that a Chinese client has recently purchased an Olympian Class WROV. Depth rated to 3,500m, the Olympian 5 will interface with PSS’ previously supplied TMS,...

Subsea 7 has purchased five Heavy Lift Tether Management Systems (TMS) from Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) to interface with its latest fleet of Hercules ROV systems currently being built. PSS...

A precise navigation system that has been fully operational only since 1995, yet has had such an impact on hydrography… it looks as if the future of these systems will...

Applanix Corporation announced today the sale of two new POS MV solutions to Harvey-Lynch Inc. of Houston, Texas. Harvey-Lynch intends to lease the Applanix POS MV WaveMaster and POS MV...

First-timers teams were the ones to beat at this summer's sixth annual international student ROV competition. In an event that highlighted the International Polar Year, the winners were participants Jesuit...