Detailed marine geophysical surveys are considered a key element in the process of development and construction of new offshore ports and load-out facilities. Specifically, seismic data constitute an essential part...

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...

Rio Tinto sought expert input from Fugro for the pre-feasibility studies to determine the ideal position for the construction of an iron ore bulk loadout facility in Guinea, West Africa....

Applied Acoustics have added a further streamer hydrophone to their range of sub-bottom profiling products. Up to now the company has offered standard streamer hydrophones with 1-8 or 20 element...

In recent years an expansion in the telecommunications industry has led to a growing market for cable-route landfall surveys. Added to this, the increasing interest in coastal-zone management (which may...

After working for eighteen years with the trailer department of a dredging company, Stef Mars started his own hydrographic survey company in 1985. Working on board of hopper trailer suction...

Charles Martin was born in Cape Town and schooled at Bishops, where he played moderate rugby, bad cricket and was a reluctant member of the choir for a few years....

In recent years an expansion in the telecommunications cable industry led to an increase in the market for cable route landfall surveys incorporating geophysical surveys at sea and topographic surveys...

Since the 1940s the use of an electrical spark to produce an underwater acoustic pulse has become an industry standard in the retrieval of sub-bottom profile data. Although conceptually simple,...

C-Products is a marine survey company set up to manufacture specialised equipment and develop software. It has been successfully trading world-wide for the past two years. The company belongs to...