The presence of suspended sediments in water bodies presents significant challenges for the dredging industry. Existing methods to determine nautical depths are intrusive single point methods relying on in situ density or shear strength measurements1,3 or low-frequency single-beam echosounder recordings1,2. The use of single-beam echosounders is however systemically problematic as they are not practical in satisfying the CATZOC A1 coverages required for contemporary electronic navigational charting. The presence of suspended sediments in water bodies presents significant challenges for the dredging industry. Existing methods to determine nautical depths are intrusive single point methods relying on in situ...

McLane Research Laboratories, USA, is presenting during Ocean Business 2013 a new in situ sampler. The Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer that generates images of...

With its shortened path length and adaptive sampling the SUNA V2, presented by Satlantic, Canada, represents an advance in UV nitrate technology, thus broadening operational ranges to include extremely turbid...

As part of their drive to understand variations in plankton composition within the Wadden Sea, the Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES, Netherlands), have fitted a Chelsea Technologies...

A.P. van den Berg of Heerenveen (the Netherlands) and research institute NGI of Oslo (Norway), have jointly developed a new sampler for obtaining accurate and reliable soil data from soft...

McLane Research Laboratories, USA, and Ocean Instruments, UK, have announced the delivery of a Zooplankton Sampler (ZPS) to Marine Scotland Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, UK. The ZPS will be on...

Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) has delivered an instrumented towed undulating oceanographic recorder, Nv-Shuttle, to the Marine and Coastal Management Group of the Department of Environment and Tourism, Cape Town, South...

Marine organisms play a critical role in capturing and storing carbon in the ocean, a factor often overlooked in climate models, which presents a challenge for predicting future ocean carbon...

Countless ships and aircraft were lost at sea in the two world wars. Many of these went down with a large amount of fuel and munitions onboard, not to forget...

The multibeam echosounder (MBES) is used for various purposes, and MBES systems have become the standard instrument for bathymetric determination. However, new developments mean that MBES systems are no longer...