Site investigation surveys involving hydrographic or geotechnical data acquisition often generate high volumes of data and require handling through specialist software packages. The combination of volume of data and variety...

Gardline has been undertaking hydrographic surveys in the north west of Europe and all over the world since 1974. Large-area nautical charting surveys to UKHO standards have been regularly undertaken...

The international offshore wind farm industry is at an early stage of development and the difficulties that have been encountered along the way are widely recognised. This article describes some...

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...

News In the May issue I called for a response - let us have it, not only from our Danish members but worldwide! Let us try to find our ‘old...

The growing offshore exploration of the 1980s led to a booming need for survey-ships and many vessel-operating companies were founded, sometimes with only one old vessel. Saturation of the market...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have shown that they can perform the same work as a deep tow system and more quickly. Based on experience with the EchoRanger, they are just...

In the last half century Hydrography has grown from a Government commitment, solely for the purpose of producing nautical charts and information for safe navigation, into a science indispensable to...

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....

The Offshore South East Asia 2002 (OSEA2002) took place in Singapore from 29 October to 1 November 2002. The OSEA2002 exhibition was held in conjunction with welding and petrochemical exhibitions....