Irish Marine Institute technicians installed a new weather buoy off the south coast, The Irish Times reported. New buoy replaced the old one which broke loose in severe weather off Mizen Head. This new model of buoy has the capacity to determine wave path and salinity ranges in water, along with tem
Top leaders from NOAA and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) signed a landmark agreement that will further strengthen cooperative… [mappress] Source: NOAA , June 01, 2012; Image: NOAA
The subsea hardware market is expected to recover this year, following the global economic crisis and the repercussions of the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that the subsea sector will continue its growth trend, reaching an annual total of $32 billion in expendit
Odyssey Marine Exploration, pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, announced that the M/V Seabed Worker has departed port and is on its way to begin operations to recover the anticipated silver cargoes from the SS Gairsoppa and SS Mantola shipwrecks. Historical records indicate the Gairsop
Large quantities of oil and natural gas have been discovered three to five kilometres into the seabed in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The ability to produce these resources under safe conditions may change Denmark’s energy supply and contribute to Denmark becoming self-sufficient in energy fo
Royal Netherlands Navy divers cleared a Second World War mine off the coast of Estonia. The German-made mine weighed in at 1,000 kilograms. This so-called GN influence mine is one of the most infamous explosives of the Second World War. Not only was the monster equipped with acoustic and magnetic fu
Offshore Marine Management (‘OMM’) has successfully completed a contract for Prysmian Powerlink as preparations continue for the installation of BorWin2, which will connect new wind parks off the coast of Germany. Using the 2,000 tonne multipurpose vessel Bourbon Enterprise, OMM cleared the route pr
Norwegian survey and positioning specialists, iSURVEY Group AS, has chosen to invest in a SPRINT (Subsea Precision Reference Inertial Navigation Technology) system from Sonardyne International to support its ROV surveys and deep water marine construction activities. The purchase follows trials of th
DOF Subsea announced that it has secured new contracts for its vessels. Fugro has extended the contract on the construction vessel Skandi Carla until July 2017. The Skandi Carla is capable of conducting ROV operations down to 2,500m and it has excellent work platform for intervention, repair and mai
MMT (Sweden) has been awarded parts of two separate hydrographic survey contracts for the EU financed project MONALISA for the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) and the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA). MONALISA is a Motorways of the Sea project which aims at giving a concrete contribution to effi
Aker Solutions’ geo business has signed a six-year frame agreement with TGS to co-operate in supplying regional sub-surface velocity cubes – hiQbe(TM) – for the UK Central North Sea area. The agreement is valid for a period of six years, with optional extensions, from 29 May 2012. In addition, TGS h
ClerkMaxwell has secured framework agreements with four major North Sea operators with the potential value of up to £15m over the next three years. Since Costain completed the acquisition of the Aberdeen-based upstream oil and gas consultancy in April of last year, the company has gone from strength
The Norwegian subsea entrepreneur Ocean Installer has opened a UK office in Aberdeen, Scotland. The new office will become a full-blown regional branch of Ocean Installer. “Less than one and a half year after Ocean Installer was established, they are at a place where the only natural development is
CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission’s repertoire. The main objective of the
