Quester Tangent announces the continued growth of its global network of authorised representatives, with the recent conclusion of new partnerships with a number of companies from widely differing corners of...

Low-budget Hydrography is the theme of this issue. Realising that different players in hydrography will have differing opinions on various aspects of low-budget hydrography and interested in exploring these divergent...

In July last year Paul Hornsby, President of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS), became Chairman of Council of The Hydrographic Society (THS). On 2 November last year, during HYDRO 4,...

There is cross-fertilisation between equipment used for security in the domain below the water surface and hydrographic and oceanographic equipment and requirements. We are seeing increasingly more traditional military technologies...

In the summer of 1953 two British surveying ships were lying in No 2 basin in Chatham Dockyard. Owen had recently returned (with me as a watch-keeper) after a busy...

The Hydrographic Institute of Portugal (HIP) has been executing hydrographic surveys at the port of Sines since 1973 as part of successive contracts signed with the Port of Sines Authority....

According to a UN group of experts in 1978, "there can be no exploitation of marine resources without exploration and there can be no exploration without hydrography". For hydrographic surveyors...

Privatisation as an answer to the financial challenges of survival has become a trend among public organisations, and hydrography is no exception. Private enterprise, worried about ‘unfair competition’, often looks...

SPINAV is an ongoing Joint Industry Project that is moving cutting-edge autonomous inspection technology from proof-of-concept trials in the test tank (completed November 2004) to an offshore trial using an...

Oslo is hosting the 2006 Maritime Industries Forum (MIF) Plenary Session, the EU's most important maritime conference.The event, which has been organised is association with Norway's Maritimt Forum, will take...