Following the privatisation of the UK Water industry, Titan Environmental Surveys Limited was established in March 2000 through a Management Buyout of elements of the Scientific Services Section of the...

With the end of the Cold War in 1989, the military significance of the Arctic Ocean, where submarines of the superpowers had played ‘cat and mouse’ for decades, dramatically decreased....

‘It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though...

In 2002, the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) established a Research and Development Department. This was to provide an independent group devoted to the investigation, development...

As we seek solutions to the challenges posed by the world's coastal areas, it is important to take advantage of the expanding range of applications brought by new technologies to...

Ships and their pilots have difficulties in entering a harbour during periods of relatively high flow velocities. We developed a system that gives real time depth average flow velocity and...

News East Australia Region The headquarters of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in Canberra was the venue for an East Australia Region General Meeting on Wednesday 11th August 2004. Our...

The Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) is one of the famous landmarks of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was the venue for the International Hydrographic & Oceanographic Industry 2003: Conference &...

A very successful workshop on seabed classification using acoustics was held at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS) in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, from 16th to 17th February 2004. Sponsors...

De Beers Marine routinely acquires ultra high-resolution geophysical data in support of its offshore mining and exploration programmes for diamondiferous placer deposits situated on the continental shelf off the West...