CARIS and Kongsberg recently teamed up to conduct a five-day joint acquisition and processing workshop with Servicio de Oceanografia, Hidrografia y Meteorologia de la Armada (SOHMA) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Thirty-five attendees from hydrographic organizations and survey companies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama participated in the workshop which included theoretical and [...]
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The Alu Marine shipyard has completed the construction of two survey launches for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This order was attributed to Alu Marine in spring 2012 following a public tender from the “Congolaise des Voies Maritimes” (CVM). These survey boats will make hydrographic surveys in the maritime bief of the Congo River [...]
Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) completed a full hydrographic survey of the Bundaberg Port area last week to determine the impacts of the recent unprecedented flood event in the Burnett River. The survey has now been reviewed by the Regional Harbour Master and GPC. The survey indicates the following: • There are a number of submerged [...]
Work has recently been completed on a pre-dredge multibeam survey onbehalf of BAM Nuttall in Stromness Harbour, Orkney. The £9.2m Copland’s Dock development will see construction of a new 100-metre pier and associated access road in Stromness. Due to the shoaling nature of the site the survey equipment was mobilised to an open RIB to [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a task order contract in the amount of $267,807.37 to AECOM Technical Services for Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) survey data collection at 32 dredging placement areas at various locations along the Texas portion of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW). Data gathered will be used in [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District officially launched its newest survey vessel – SWART – with a Nov. 30 christening ceremony at the Engineer Repair Yard. The boat is named after Dirk Swart III (1935-2011) who served as captain and operator of District survey vessel GILLETTE from 1971 to his retirement in 2002 [...]
Physical work on the feasibility phase of the Tangier Jetty program is set to begin this week, weather dependant. A Norfolk District survey crew will operate in the water where the jetty is to be built at the federal navigation channel entranceway on the western side of the island. “We just received the funds in [...]
MMT has recently completed a survey tour on the east coast of Sweden. The tour included a hydrographic survey in the harbour of Oskarshamn nuclear power plant and adjacent entrance channel. This was followed by a geophysical survey in Oxelösund harbour which is currently under extensive development. The survey included multibeam, sub-bottom profiler and side-scan [...]
The Harbour Master at Chichester Harbour in the UK has issued the folowing Notice to Mariners. “Mariners are advised that a bathymetric survey of Chichester Bar and Approach Channel undertaken 6 November 2012 showed a least depth of 1.1m below Chart Datum. “Mariners are reminded of our standing advice that Chichester Bar is periodically dredged [...]
A new technology is being deployed by U.S. Geological Survey scientists this weekend to map urban flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac. Called “terrestrial lidar,” or “T-lidar”, this new capability will enable scientists to collect highly detailed information in select population areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama where the hurricane had the greatest impact. The portable [...]
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