Alastair MacDonald chaired the Conference. Ed Hill, Director, Corporate Services of the NIO, welcomed the attendees and explained, in very upbeat terms, the function of the Institute. Noting that recently...

Inspired by the Austrian explorer and naval officer Lt. Karl Weyprecht, an international meteorological congress was held in Vienna (Austria) in 1873, which resulted in the International Polar Year (IPY;...

Triton Imaging, Inc., a leader of seafloor search and survey software products, released enhancements to its industry-standard eXtended Triton Format (XTF) specification. The new Version 18 of the XTF specification...

Nereus, a mythical god with a fish tail and a man’s torso, was chosen as the name of a new deep-sea vehicle under construction at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...

Professor Graham Shimmield is a graduate of the University of Durham, England with a BSc (Honours) degree in Geology. In 1981, he studied for a PhD in marine geochemistry at...

Fugro has introduced a new service called Fugro High Performance (HP) with design goal of 0.2m 95 per cent horizontal and 0.3m 95 per cent vertical. Both monitoring data and...

Nearshore engineering surveys are undertaken for the purpose of gathering information pertaining to the bathymetry and morphology of the seabed, along with the geotechnical characteristics and geophysical profiles of the...

Side-scan sonar is well accepted as a tool for detection and visualisation of underwater objects and is widely used in support of safety of navigation surveys. Although side-scan sonars produce...

Being detached from a vessel increases the range for surveying, making it possible to access deeper and more difficult areas of the sea and oceans. Hydroid LLC develops and manufactures...

Magnetic surveying is a common methodology for small-object detection applications such as UXO clearance, pipeline location and archaeology. Now gradiometers using Overhauser technology are doing the job faster and better...