There is a global shortage of hydrographic surveyors. The industry is faced with an interesting challenge and looks to specialised education facilities and personnel suppliers to assist in solving this...

News New Zealand Region It has been reported that in September 2004 HMNZS Resolution completed surveying the final areas of Shipping Lane One; the approaches to Tauranga, thus completing the...

In the 18th century, a trading ship was on a passage in the Bay of Bengal. There were 250 people on board the sailing ship. The sea through which they...

News West Australia Region The West Australia Region signalled it is back in the action again after years on the sideline when it held a well attended meeting at the...

This is the story of how two seventeenth-century English pirates were able to collect a mass of hydrographic material subsequently used by William Hack, a London publisher, to produce charts...

News The First Atlas of Lake Ladoga A atlas of Lake Ladoga, an ancient gulf of the Baltic Sea, has recently been published. It was edited in St Petersburg under...

That Dieppe was a major centre of hydrographic progress in the 16th Century was recently chronicled in this Column (see Hydro international 2002 Vol. 6 No. 2). David Ross, a...

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...

Sir Robert Dudley was born in 1574 but his birth was kept secret from Queen Elizabeth, for she would have been enraged had she heard that her favourite courtier, the...

Oceanology International, the world's premier event for the marine science and ocean technology community, will this year be held in London, UK, from 9th to 11th March. Over 6,600 attendees...