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on June 2014For 150 million people living in coastal areas around the world, rising sea level will become a genuine threat, according to a new study which found evidence the sea level has been rising over the past 200 years – and continues to rise. Ocean warming and glaciers/ice sheets melting are the causes
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on June 2014Two Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), specifically developed for the SUPPORT (Security UPgrade for PORTS) project, an integrated four-year research and development project, partially funded by the European Commission’s FP7 Security Research Program, were demonstrated at the Port of Lisbon on Ma
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on June 2014Understanding the Bay of Fundy’s powerful tides is getting easier thanks to a new advanced sensor platform being built for the Minas Passage. Simon Melrose, the platform project manager for the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), speaking at the Nova Scotia Energy Research and Developmen
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on June 2014The Maersk Group launched a computer game and teaching materials, available for free, to help teach students about oil exploration and oil production for Danish secondary schools, technical colleges and higher preparatory examination courses. The oil exploration game, which provides an insight into
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on June 2014A newly established research center on Norway’s west coast hopes to improve subsea operation and maintenance by bringing risk management into real time. Integrated Well and Subsea Instrumentation (IWSI) is the latest development from independent technology research institute Christian Michelsen Rese
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on June 2014As one of the world’s most technologically innovative industries, the highly specialized subsea sector is not typically known for standardized operations. But that is changing. Companies like Statoil, the world’s second largest subsea operator, have traditionally achieved success by pushing the bou
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on June 2014The Imagenex Model 881L-GS sonar, which employs a low drift gyroscope as well as a magnetic compass, is designed to be capable of correcting for orientation changes at a rate in excess of 500 degrees per second, which allows it to compensate for sudden turns and inadvertent bumping or jarring. There
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on June 2014OSIL offers a new quad band GPRS camera system to the marketplace for site security and asset management. The static, low power system is capable of sending a still color (2 megapixel) image via MMS, email or by FTP to a browser or to a customized website. Pictures can be taken on demand when the ca
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on June 2014WFS Technologies launched Seatooth Video, the new edition of its subsea wireless video camera. Seatooth Video is an upgraded version of WFS’ previous Viewtooth product enhanced with the latest Seatooth S300 technology. The new subsea wireless video camera exceeds the underwater wireless video stream
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- MacArtney Launches LUXUS Dropplate page: 55
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on June 2014MacArtney introduced the LUXUS Dropplate, an underwater camera platform enabling marine operators to perform underwater investigations by means of three LUXUS Power LED lights and any LUXUS camera. Manufactured from high density polyethylene with a frame shielding the onboard cameras and lights from
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- Subsea Camera from Battelle page: 55
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on June 2014A new camera developed by Battelle aims to reduce the time, effort and expense needed to create complete 360-degree viewpoints in the depths of the ocean or in other hard to reach places. The HorizonVue M360 Deep combines Battelle’s history in maritime engineering technology with RemoteReality’s spe
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on June 2014Trelleborg’s offshore operation announced it has consolidated its range of high performance thermal insulation materials to house them all under one brand – Vikotherm, which was presented last month at OTC in Houston. “As subsea environments become increasingly more demanding; going deeper and furth
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on June 2014VectorNav Technologies introduced the VN-300 Dual Antenna GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS). The follow-on product to the VN-100 IMU/AHRS and VN-200 GPS/INS, the miniature VN-300 enables a wider range of applications through the incorporation of GPS compassing techniques. The VN-300 c
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on June 2014Following the integration of Sonardyne International Ltd.’s Solstice Side Scan Sonar with a Bluefin Robotics Bluefin-12 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), the results of recent payload testing have produced exceptionally high quality imagery, according to the companies involved and attested by the
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- C-MAR DP Training in Brazil page: 40
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on June 2014The modern offshore maritime industry relies on a variety of DP vessels, from OSVs to Drillships and tankers, almost all vessels serving the oil and gas industry need to be DP capable in order to safely operate offshore. The growth experienced in Brazil due to the uncorking of huge deepwater pre-sal
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on June 2014Texas A&M University at Galveston: Preparing Engineers for Lucrative Ocean Related Careers In 2010, Blake Sanchez saw a billboard that changed his life. “Four years ago, I saw a billboard for Texas A&M at Galveston,” Sanchez said. “It was advertising marine programs, and the ocean engineering one
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on June 2014Sonardyne International is taking part in a new Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) project within the Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) program to develop a Carbon Dioxide (CO2) marine and shallow subsurface monitoring system for underground CCS sites in the North Sea. The system will monitor for any CO
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on June 2014The Model AST 4530 Liquid Level Transmitter from American Sensor Technologies, Inc. (AST) is designed to measure the level of harsh liquids such as slurries, salt water and oil in vented tanks or containers. Constructed with PVDF material and a PTFE diaphragm, the AST 4530 submersible pressure senso
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- Axis: New Security Cameras page: 58
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on June 2014The AXIS Q60-S PTZ Dome Network Cameras in nitrogen-pressurized stainless steel casings can resist the corrosive effect of sea water and cleaning chemicals, and withstand high-pressure steam cleaning. Pressurized nitrogen prevents internal condensation. Axis Communications launched three outdoor-rea
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on June 2014Imenco challenges established standards with the introduction of an all-digital system that it says will have considerable ramifications in the way the subsea industry carries out inspection tasks. The solution, and all of Imenco’s future systems, will be run with Ethernet using the latest TCP/IP St