Since July 2004 the author has been routinely measuring waves 10km offshore Savannah, Georgia, at a site with mean water depth of 13m, using a Triaxys wave buoy (see wavebuoy.gtsav.gatech.edu)....

The port of Monaco is undergoing an extensive construction process that will help double the port's capacity and protect it from heavy eastern swells and dangerous Mediterranean storms. The new...

News The old Surveyor It is summer, it is hot and the beach is full of them... but where are you? Sorry, I could not see you behind the computer...

Ixsea and Thales launch their shared product Starins, a range which combines Military GPS and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), in Paris. This range includes Starins 120, Starins 200 and Starins...

SyncWave Energy has announced SyncWave Power Resonator, that captures the energy in Ocean Waves with frequency-based technology. SyncWave is a free-floating, self-reacting point-absorber system that is expected to improve the...

On Friday 8 June 2007, the bulk carrierPasha Bulkerran aground in heavy storm conditions on one of Newcastle’s most famous surfing beaches, Nobbys, near the entrance to Newcastle Harbour in...

The speed in the development of new survey systems, their high acquisition costs and precision installation requirements, combined with the need to mount them on board vessels which are executing...

Recent development of a 3-dimensional precise positioning technique by Kinematic GPS (KGPS) makes it possible to realise accurate vertical positioning to several centimetres, even in the sea. But observed vertical...

The River Murray Operations Unit (RMOU) of the South Australian Water Corporation surveys very shallow waters, a type of surveying that has its own specific problems overcome by non-conventional solutions....

As the industry searches for hydrocarbons in deeper and deeper water, the difficulties related to this exploration and installation of related equipment are increasing substantially. Subsea installation methods, which were...