Page 55: of Marine Technology Magazine (April 2011)

www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 55 and the latest release from SeeByte, their Performance Analysis and

Training Tool (PATT). Dr. Warren

Fox, Principal Scientist at NURC said, “SeeByte’s SeeTrack Military software can help us transition our world-class research in support of

NATO's maritime operational and transformational requirements to

NATO fleets. Its open architecture platform means that any new and innovative tools we develop for mine countermeasures to safely and effi- ciently find explosive ordnance can easily be made available to all existing

NATO users of SeeTrack Military.” www.seebyte.com

SWATHE

Swathe Airborne Surveys is a new division within the Swathe Group bringing together aviation services, equipment manufacturers and 10- years hands on experience of bathy- metric LiDAR surveying to provide a unique and cost effective solution to their clients allowing them to expand their survey operations into new and otherwise inaccessible areas of marine survey. www.swathe-services.com

CDL Earns Military Contract

CDL won its first military contract for their TOGS-S unit. The purchase order of 12 TOGS Surface fibre optic gyro systems was placed by Marine

Electronic Systems of Totton,

England as part of their integrated bridge system solution to be installed on 12 Griffon hovercrafts bound for

India. TOGS-S is a North seeking

FOG with heading accuracy up to 0.2° with GPS aiding (0.5° unaided) designed for surface application including commercial shipping, mili- tary craft, yachts and land vehicles.

David Evans and Associates

Purchases Two SeaBat 7125-SV2

David Evans and Associates Marine

Services Division has purchased two of the new SeaBat 7125-SV2 systems.

DEA’s clients include private indus- try, local and regional municipalities, port authorities, the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers and the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA). DEA is a long-time customer of RESON and was an early adopter of the SeaBat 7125. The upgraded 7125-SV2 sys- tem provides dramatically improved performance.

Global Marine Selects Predator

ROV Distributor

Global Marine Systems announced that Great Eastern Group, an opera- tional offshore company specializing in program management, environ- mental compliance, geophysical sur- veys, marine construction, and ship management & operations, will dis- tribute its state-of-the art Inspection

Class ROV system – Predator – in

Rhode Island. Based in Florida, with offices and marine facilities in Rhode

Island Great Eastern Group is the lat- est international distributor for

Global Marine’s Inspection Class

ROV. Designed and built at its

Portland facility in Dorset UK, the

Predator uses the latest technology to ensure maximum operating efficiency for a number of marine operations.

DW Launches

Deepwater Service

The new Deepwater Service has been launched by Douglas-

Westwood. With quarterly updates, subscribers can keep up-to-date year round, with this dynamic and fast- moving industry. The research fore- casts a massive 79% growth in capi- tal expenditure compared to the last five years, with $206 billion to be spent on deepwater developments over the 2011-2015 period. “We expect African and Latin American developments to drive the forecast growth,” said Steve Robertson, director. “African developments are largely concentrated on Angola and

Nigeria. Latin America is likely to experience substantial growth, exceeding Africa’s deepwater expen- diture towards the end of the fore- cast period, driven by Petrobras’ development of its Campos and

Santos (pre-salt) fields off Brazil.

There are some interesting prospects in North Africa but these may be hampered in the short-term by the present political uncertainties. A large cloud of political uncertainty also continues to sit stubbornly over the US Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo spill in 2010.

Recovery is expected in the US Gulf over the next five years but at pres- ent activity levels are depressed and contractors continue to report that the region is difficult. The outlook for 2012 is poor with recovery expected from 2013 onwards. There is a risk that the present administra- tion could limit deepwater activity in favour of development of uncon- ventional onshore reserves instead. http://www.dw-1.com/shop/shop- infopage.php?longref=695~0