In November 1941 the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal was returning from Malta, when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat southeast of Gibraltar. Its destruction was a...

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...

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,...

C & C Technologies’ second deepwater AUV, C-Surveyor II, recently began field operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The C-Surveyor II AUV is modelled after C & C’s existing state-of-the-art...

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...

C & C Technologies’ C-Surveyor I AUV, aboard the R/V Rig Supporter, began a 13-day transit from the coast of Angola to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil on 11 March. Over...

In January 2001, C&C Technologies (C&C), a company based in Lafayette (Louisiana, USA), introduced the first commercially successful autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the offshore industry. The AUV’s survey sensor...

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...

StarFish is a high-definition seabed imaging sonar, launched by Tritech during Oceans 2007 in Aberdeen (UK). Producing near photo-quality images of the seabed it's according to Tritech the smallest towfish...

The delivery of C-Surveyor III, C & C Technologies third AUV, is scheduled for October 2007. C & C and Kongsberg Maritime recently performed sea trails and installed C &...