With the end of the Cold War in 1989, the military significance of the Arctic Ocean, where submarines of the superpowers had played ‘cat and mouse’ for decades, dramatically decreased....

There is quite a difference between land surveyors (topographers) and those who survey at sea. Topographers can generally gather their information by direct observation and measurement, whereas hydrographic surveyors have...

De Beers Marine routinely acquires ultra high-resolution geophysical data in support of its offshore mining and exploration programmes for diamondiferous placer deposits situated on the continental shelf off the West...

News The Hydrographic Society of Benelux held a workshop at Ixsea Oceano bv in Haarlem, The Netherlands on 11 June 2003. Seventy people from the dredging and offshore industries, survey,...

On geological time scales, the floor of the ocean is young compared to the continents, as it is continuously recycled by internal convective forces. Oceanic lithosphere forms by ascending magma...

It is likely that you will find sub-bottom profiling equipment onboard most of the survey vessels involved in offshore investigations. Whereas the echo sounder is designed for top-layer investigations, with...

From 16-19 March, London’s new Exhibition Centre (ExCeL) was hosting the Oceanology International for the second time; offering ample, proficient and modern space in the Docklands, it saw a well...

The North Sea directorate of the Ministry of Public Works and the department of Geo-Marine & Coast of The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience-TNO jointly carried out a geological mapping...

London’s Exhibition Centre (ExCeL) hosted Oceanology International 2006 from 21st to 23rd March. This was the third time the event had been held in this ample, efficient and modern space...

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,...