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ContentsVolume 56  Number 4 May 2013201418News8 $124B The subsea hardware spend is set to double to $124B, according to a DW report. Salvage12 The BonanzaMonsoon season has salvors lining up off the coast of India.Salvage14 What goes down ...Must come up. Some statistical analysis to the wrecks of the world. Feature Vessel 18 PGS? RamformPGS signed the deal for a pair of ultra-modern seismic survey vessels, to be built in Japan. Hydrography 24 USVs Unmanned Surface Vessels are increasingly used to gather large volumes of data efÞ ciently. MTR looks at several exciting developments. Hydrography 20 The Abyss Geomar & the Abyss AUV study the South Atlantic Sea ß oor. 24May 20132 MTRMTR #4 (1-17).indd 2MTR #4 (1-17).indd 25/6/2013 9:52:25 AM5/6/2013 9:52:25 AM