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on March 2014Schneider Electric and Oncam Grandeye have partnered on the Evolution 360-degree camera range, providing unprecedented situational awareness. Pelco incorporates 360-degree technology and dewarping software to provide a camera range with total situational awareness. The feature allows users to go bac
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on March 2014Hyde’s GUARDIAN Gold Ballast Water Treatment System offers the smallest footprint for easy installation and combines auto-backflushing filtration with reliable UV disinfection technology in a chemical free process. UV treatment is unaffected by salinity or temperature, without producing hazardous by
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- Compact Genset for Onboard Serenity page: 55
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on March 2014Equipment noise is a thing of the past with a new Marine Exhaust Systems G-19 water drop generator muffler. The G-19 water drop muffler accommodates gensets rated from 30-85 kW; 105 kW units are available on request. The customizable compact, low profile, one-piece design blends well into any engine
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- CEACT Allows Operators to REACT page: 49
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on March 2014How updated electronic navigation practices improve safety and efficiency – and optimize cargo movement – on US inland waterways. It was a cold winter night. Heavy gusts and snow did not allow safe navigation and forced the ships on the upper Mississippi to secure alongside the few remaining jett
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- Kongsberg Camera Systems for OOI page: 91
Marine Technology
on March 2014The Kongsberg Maritime Ltd. Camera group Systems & Projects Team delivered the first set of cabled IP Digital Still Camera Stations (CAMDS) to the University of Washington. The delivery is for the regional cabled observatory component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program in the northe
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- Shark Marine Launches D.A.S. Boat page: 91
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on March 2014Shark Marine Technologies introduced its newest system for autonomous bathymetric surveying: The DiveLog Automated Survey Boat or D.A.S. Boat. As its name suggests, D.A.S. Boat is controlled by Shark Marine’s DiveLog software. Originally designed to create an intuitive interface for Shark Marine’s N
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- New Broco Underwater Cutting Rod page: 90
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on March 2014Broco Underwater offers the new advanced design Broco Ultrathermic Cutting Rod PLUS. Based on a new patent-pending design, Broco said its new underwater cutting rod delivers 20% more cutting and burn time than the same size prior generation rod. According to the manufacturer, the new Broco Ultrather
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on March 2014Sonardyne’s Ranger 2 acoustic positioning technology has been selected by Transas for use on two new build ice-class multi-purpose salvage vessels (MPSVs, the project is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau) commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Transport. The vessels are currently under constru
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on March 2014Engineered Syntactic Systems (ESS), a supplier of foam buoyancy solutions, announced plans to extend its line of syntactic products to support more traditional oceanographic implementations. The addition of modular product options enables ESS to supply more customers with great performance in a wide
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- New Survey Interface page: 89
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on March 2014Chesapeake Technology offers a new 24-bit analog sub-bottom SonarWiz interface (SBP24) for high resolution geophysical surveys. SBP24 provides extremely high resolution 24-bit data at sample rates from 10-100 kHz per channel for up to two channels over a standard USB 2.0 interface. Digitized data is
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- BIRNS Millennium Connectors page: 89
Marine Technology
on March 2014BIRNS, Inc. announced a range of new keying options for its BIRNS Millennium connector series. The BIRNS Millennium series is a six km rated, high density metal shell connector line trusted worldwide for demanding subsea applications, from manned and unmanned submersibles to sensors and towed arrays
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- New Compact in situ pCO2 Sensor page: 89
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on March 2014Turner Designs now offers C-sense, a compact, lightweight pCO2 sensor for measuring the partial pressure of gas in liquids. Designed for applications involving immersion in water, oil, or water and oil mixtures, C-sense combines an oil-resistant membrane interface with a compact temperature-compensa
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on March 2014Dutch energy company Eneco has purchased Fugro’s new wind LiDAR buoy while a Japanese company is to deploy its buoy close to a floating power generation system. Fugro recently developed what it calls an accurate and cost-effective alternative to the traditional method of wind profile measurements fo
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- Scanning Sonar for Search and Survey page: 88
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on March 2014When an SUV went off a Minnesota bridge and into a river in January the local sheriff’s office was immediately notified and the Winona County Dive Team dispatched. Two bodies were quickly recovered from the vehicle, both wearing seatbelts, but two others were missing. The third victim was found the
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on March 2014Most ROV pilots are familiar with the vanishing target problem when operating mechanically scanning sonar. During the approach with an ROV or any other moving platform, heading alterations of major proportion will often place sought-after targets outside of the viewing sector of the sonar on success
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- OI 2014 Technology Preview page: 84
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on March 2014This month the global subsea community gathers in London for Oceanology International 2014. MTR examines new technology set to debut. 2G Engineering 2G Engineering offers a full range of electric subsea rotary and linear actuator systems. These units are unique in that they are fully self containe
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on March 2014Jensen Maritime Consultants – leveraging a unique porthole on the maritime industry – anticipates and meets demand in the burgeoning maritime LNG sectors. Nevertheless, says Jensen’s Johan Sperling, it’s not rocket science. At the recent Passenger Vessel Association (PVA) annual meeting held in H
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- Short Seas in the Long Run page: 44
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on March 2014Building for the possibility of shortsea shipping involves many variables. The novel concept of rebirthing short sea shipping into what it once was or could be, may remain just that, a novelty. It would be paramount to overcome the “my way, on my terms” philosophy that so heavily drives traffic awa
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on March 2014Following a major expansion which saw new MacArtney offices open in every coastal corner of the North America and added several new faces to the team, MacArtney is looking to experience record breaking growth within North American markets for underwater technology. This marks a key contribution to t
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on March 2014Devon Grennan was named CEO of Global Diving & Salvage in November 2013 after company founders Tim Beaver and John Graham stepped down from direct operational involvement. MTR caught up with Grennan for his insights on the business of Diving and Salvage. Your title is new, your tenure is not. Ho