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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 15 said Hong Wang, Fugro GEOS weather forecaster. "The weather criteria was very low, less than 0.5 meter significant wave height and less than 10 knots of wind. The meteorologists' services were in heavy demand during this period as any unfore- seen changes in the weather would need to be quickly and carefully managed. Once the structures were at the holding area the meteorologists joined a supply vessel to provide ongoing weather coverage for the tow and final positioning on site.

The Measurement Division had a five- month contract with Aker Marine

Contractors to build up a complete under- standing of waves, current profile and water level that could be expected during the tow-out and installation of the two

CGBSs. "The current profile and sea elevation were measured by a bottom mounted

ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current

Profiler) and pressure sensor," said Jan-

Petter Mathisen, the Fugro OCEANOR project manager responsible for this meas- urement contract. "During the towing operation the data were transmitted by means of an electrical cable to a Seawatch mini buoy, which measured wave direc- tional parameters.

All data were then transmitted to one of the towing vessels by the Inmarsat satellite system and presented by our StationGuard software. The measurements were carried out at two locations at water depths of 30 and 50 m." news

USCG Buys Underwater

Port Security Robots

VideoRay won a Blanket Purchase

Agreement (BPA) by the United States

Coast Guard (USCG) in conjunction with its recent General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule award. The agreement expires in September, 2010, and involved a

VideoRay Port Security configuration that has been deployed in nine Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) locations over the last two years. The task order includes training and maintenance services with each system, and at the completion of this task order all MSST units will be equipped with VideoRay systems.

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Drilling in Iran's

Caspian Blocks

Three-dimensional seismological opera- tions are underway at Iranian blocks in

Caspian Sea in preparation for spudding two wells. Deputy minister of oil for

Caspian Sea oil and gas affairs told

Petroenergy Information Network that a bid is underway for choosing a foreign contractor with experience in working at deep waters, the results of which will be announced in two weeks. (Source:

IranMania)

C-Surveyor II Works in GOM

C&C Technologies' second deepwater

AUV, C-Surveyor II, began field opera- tions in the Gulf of Mexico. Over a peri- od of three months, C&C system engi- neers integrated proprietary hardware and software into this next generation AUV and mobilized it on its mother ship the

R/V Northern Resolution. The C-

Surveyor II AUV is modeled after C & C's existing AUV, C-Surveyor I.

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