Houston-based seismic cable and umbilical designer and manufacturer Geocable Systems, received two of their most substantial orders to date from International pure-play Geophysical company CGGVeritas.   The orders from CGGVeritas...

The ongoing WiMUST (Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology) project aims to design and test a system of cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that would simplify seismic surveying and offer...

A mass stranding of melon-headed whales occurred in May-June 2008 in the Loza Lagoon system in Madagascar. About 100 open-ocean mammals mysteriously entered the shallow estuarine system. Recently, a report...

Over the past decade the United Kingdom has seen a significant increase in the number of marine-based construction projects - led principally by the offshore-renewables sector. The construction and operation...

Fugro has reached agreement with JDR Cable Systems (Netherlands) Ltd to acquire JDR Cable Systems Holdings Netherlands BV and its marine cable subsidiary JDR Cable Systems BV, together comprising JDR’s...

JDR Cables has been awarded the contract by the Polarcus Group based in Dubai U.A.E. for the supply of Airgun umbilical systems and Lead-in cable systems for their entire fleet...

The Panama Canal is 77 kilometres long and connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal is presently handling more vessel traffic than had ever been envisioned by...

Less than 30,000km of seismic profile exist for the Arctic Ocean. Components of a new autonomous drifting seismic buoy have now been successfully tested using the hovercraftR/H Sabvabaa. Three buoys...

An article from the June 2006 issue of Hydrointernationaldescribed our plans for utilising a hovercraft to deploy autonomous drifting echosounding Seafloor Sounding in Polar and Remote Regions (SSPARR) buoys in...

During the past thirty years subsurface seismic images have allowed Exploration and Production companies internationally to commercially develop thousands of hydrocarbon reservoirs. In response to increasing world demand some companies...