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- Wave-Propelled Vessel Debuts page: 50
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on April 2014AutoNaut is a wave-propelled vessel for ocean research launched at OI ’14. Built by MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd. for very long endurance autonomous data gathering the 3.5m AutoNaut also harvests solar energy at sea to power its electronics. The new unmanned surface vessel (USV) uses motion from t
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on April 2014Underwater Laser based micro-bathymetry is becoming a new standard for subsea pipeline and asset inspection. As the industry moves to deeper and more hostile environments for extraction of oil, technology to manage the risks involved in these environments are critical. This became most evident durin
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on April 2014Royal Dutch Shell announced at the end of January that it would suspend all drilling activity in Arctic waters off Alaska due to a “multibillion-dollar scaling back of new projects.” The move comes just two weeks after the Anglo-Dutch company pulled out of an Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) p
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on April 2014In an effort to spread out oil and gas production to other parts of the country and increase overall oil production, Brazil has finally intensified hydrocarbon exploration along its northeastern and northern coasts. These are some of the poorest regions in the country and infrastructure for oil and
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on April 2014Following the Underwater Intervention ’14 exhibition in New Orleans, the crew from Seatronics, an Acteon company headed to the sunny shores of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Fort Lauderdale for a demonstration to key clients of the new and improved Predator II Observation class ROV. According
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- MTR April 2014: Editor's Note page: 6
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on April 2014While the Offshore Oil & Gas markets continue to push further from shore in ever-deeper waters, the need for proven technology to work more efficiently in increasingly hostile and unfamiliar environments grows in tandem. And while growth in the energy sector continues to energize multiple markets, i
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on April 2014Offshore drilling activity continues to migrate into deeper waters, especially with new oil and gas discoveries happening in smaller reservoirs located in deeper waters. Making these discoveries commercially viable relies on not only revenue from high oil and gas prices but also on reducing operatin
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on April 2014U. of Southern Mississippi site for Fourth National SeaPerch Challenge – Underwater Robotic Championships – Excitement continues to build for the Fourth Annual National SeaPerch Challenge, as 2014 will see the largest group of SeaPerch competitors ever to assemble and compete for the title of Nati
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on April 2014Scientists gave the rebuilt Alvin submarine two thumbs up after field-testing the nation’s only human-occupied deep-sea research vehicle for the first time after a major $42-million overhaul that dramatically upgraded the sub’s capabilities. “We’ve tested the core functions of the new Alvin, and
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on April 2014Recently, Swiftships Shipbuilders, LLC, in Morgan City, La., showcased the Anaconda-2 – an unmanned, 35-ft. craft in development – during a demonstration on the Atchafalaya River next to its HQ. The company partnered with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) more than a year ago to produce
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on April 2014Digital transmission is something most of us use - knowingly or otherwise - everyday, whether it be smart phones, tablets or via other electronic devices. The subsea industry is the exception with its reliance on analogue (SD or Standard Definition) cameras in the belief that analogue systems have s
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- Kongsberg Camera Systems for OOI page: 91
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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
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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