Hydrographic surveying goes green
Amid new climate policies, the global energy transition is in full swing. This is leading companies and organizations to take a variety of measures to make their business operations more...
Amid new climate policies, the global energy transition is in full swing. This is leading companies and organizations to take a variety of measures to make their business operations more...
Marine archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm, Sweden, have uncovered the wreck of the 17th-century warship Äpplet. Launched in 1629, the ship was built by the same...
In the summers of 2021 and 2022, an iXblue DriX USV was deployed to try and locate the missing wreck of the sunken French fishing trawler Ravenel. The vessel disappeared...
The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before the ocean liner sank has been identified in the Irish Sea. Using state-of-the art multibeam sonar, researchers at Bangor...
Since the 1970s, remote sensing has increasingly been used to conduct underwater surveys. Several methodologies are employed in hydrographic surveying, from direct techniques such as probing rods to more sophisticated...
North Irish Sea Array (NISA) Offshore Wind Farm is undertaking a geophysical survey campaign on the proposed NISA Export Cable Route Area, off the coast of north County Dublin and...
Ireland’s multipurpose marine research vessel RV Tom Crean has entered service equipped with Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) underwater positioning technology from ocean science company Sonardyne. Delivered in July, the 52.8m-long vessel...
Strong protective measures are required to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales and other marine wildlife during offshore wind survey activities. We need offshore wind, and we need to...
NOAA hydrographic survey ships and contractors are preparing for the 2022 hydrographic survey season in U.S. coastal waters and beyond. The ships collect bathymetric data (i.e. map the seafloor) to...
Wreck search is a special application of hydrographic surveying. Countless sunken ships – or what’s left of them – have been discovered over the years, often by means of a...
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