Hot fluids spew from a fissure, known as a vent, in the seafloor, along a mid-ocean ridge in the deep sea. Thriving in the area near the plume of hot...

The UK oil and gas industry today announced the creation of a new nation-wide, employer-led Oil and Gas Academy which will allow the industry to secure the skilled workforce it...

Articles selected for this issue give a taste of the present day ‘surveyor’s world’ (this issue’s theme) - a world which is evolving. One of the co-authors of “Refloating the...

The US$20 billion per annum market served by international offshore, marine and underwater engineering contractors is represented by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). Its Offshore Survey Division is the...

The theme of the 2008 FIG Working Week is "Integrating Generations", which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. These include questions related to the need...

It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above...

On the list of important conferences in hydrographic surveying are the HYDRO conferences, this year’s contribution to the series to be held in Antwerp. Chair of the organising committee is...

On Friday 22nd September the regular workshop of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) was hosted by the Shipping and Transport College (STC) in Rotterdam. This new building on the edge...

News Sitting on the Bench? Until now you might have thought that the invitation to contribute appearing under the above headline applied only to elderly retired surveyors sitting on a...

Some people in the hydrographic community show up in every part of the world and it looks like they never age and stop working. Nevertheless they sooner or later reach...