Fringed by deep trenches, Japan is a country composed of seismic and volcanic active island arcs, where the huge Pacific Plate and the smaller Philippine Sea Plate converge to the...

Since its introduction many years ago, survey sonar has evolved steadily, but is still a difficult and non-intuitive survey tool, requiring large amounts of processing to arrive at the most...

Remaining parts of the famous 16th century ship the Mary Rose have been recovered in Portsmouth Harbour entrance using standard offshore equipment. The use of acoustic navigation enabled both divers...

Laser Bathymetry Conference On 13th November 2006 in Saint Petersburg the companies Chart-Pilot Ltd and GeoLIDAR held a scientific-practical conference on the theme of the opportunities for use of a...

The eighth Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, from 27th to 28th September 2006. Although modest in size compared, for example, to OI-London, the...

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...

Despite its great practical importance, we still have much to learn about the transport of sand grains in the coastal environment. This mainly due to the complexity of sand transportation...

China has more than 900 lakes, some 5,800 rivers, of which five are very large, an 18,000km-long coastline and more than 6,000 islands in about 3.50 million square kilometres of...

Underwater wireless communications links have almost exclusively been implemented using acoustic systems. Optical links have proved impractical for many applications. Although underwater radio links were experimentally evaluated in the pioneering...

VideoRay has assisted the US Coast Guard in investigating the cause of the mysterious loss of the Lady Luck, a Newburyport (MA, USA) based fishing vessel which sunk early on...