Sea Technology back issues from March 2008:
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 2008; ... CORRECTION-In February's Ocean Business section on page 72, Teledyne Instruments Inc. (Thousand ...
Sustaining Our Technological Know-How
Mar 01, 2008; ... In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences published "The Gathering Storm," a study detailing the shrinking number of American students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math classes. While the number of such students in the United States remains high, an ever increasing proportion ...
soundings
Mar 01, 2008; ... * USS Georgia (SSGN 729) Completes Sea Trials, Delivered to the Fleet. USS Georgia (SSGN 729), the fourth and final ship in the U.S. Navy's new class of reconfigured nuclear-powered guided missile submarines (SSGN), successfully completed sea trials earlier this winter. The objective of ...
Addressing the Need for Bathymetric Data Management
Mar 01, 2008; ... Assessment, Storage and Management Needs for Bathymetric Data Push Hydrographie Organizations to Find New Solutions Hydrographic organizations, port and waterway authorities and other large holders of bathymetric data have a need to assess large volumes of these data coming in from ...
Airborne Lidar Hydrographic Survey for Homeland Security
Mar 01, 2008; ... Remote, Uncharted Areas in Torres Strait Present Unique Challenges to the Hydrographic Surveyor In early 2007, an extensive airborne lidar hydrographie (ALH) survey was completed in northern Australian waters. During a period of three months, a total area of 5,800 square kilometers was ...
Instrumentation for Underwater In-Situ Radon Analysis
Mar 01, 2008; ... Design and Application of an Underwater In-Situ Gamma-Ray Spectrometer with an ROV The development and application of an autonomous detection system for radioactivity in the marine environment (water and seabed) is of important scientific priority for today's marine sciences, especially ...
New Generation of Electronic Card Systems: The 4D Card
Mar 01, 2008; ... New Technology to Manage the Passage of Ships In Confined Water with the Tides' Effects In today's world of globalization and competitiveness, it is essential for players in the marine domain to exploit the possibilities offered by shared waterways in a durable and optimal manner. To ...
Oceans '08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean '08
Mar 01, 2008; ... Oceans 2008 Marine Technology Society (MTS)/IEEE KobeTechno-Ocean '08 (OTO '08), a large-scale international convention on marine science and technology, will run from April 8 to 11. Four years have passed since Oceans was held jointly with Techno-Ocean in 2004, its first time away from North ...
Suppressing Radio Frequency Interference in HF Radars
Mar 01, 2008; ... How to Increase the Data Quality of Radar-Sensed Ocean Surface Currents in a Difficult Electromagnetic Environment In the last 10 to 15 years, high-frequency (HF) radars for the remote sensing of oceanographic parameters like surface currents and ocean waves have become more and more ...
Developing a Sediment Sampling ROV for the Deepest Ocean
Mar 01, 2008; ... A Challenge to Dive to Depths of More Than 10,000 Meters in the Mariana Trench In 1995, the Japan Agency for MarineEarth Science and Technology GAMSTEC) developed a 10,000-meter-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Kaiko, and until five years ago operated it for deep-sea ...
MMS Proposes Bonus or Royalty Credits for Relinquishing Eligible Leases
Mar 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) is proposing to amend its regulations to provide credit to lessees who relinquish certain eligible leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The amended regulations will also define the eligible leases and establish how those ...
New Agreement Expands Opportunities for U.S. Maritime Cadets
Mar 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Department of Transportation announced an agreement that will allow U.S. maritime cadets to serve on international container vessels. The training and experience they receive will give them more employment opportunities worldwide after graduation, officials said. There is ...
OREC: No Tax Incentives in Energy Bill Weakens Renewable Energy Industry
Mar 01, 2008; ... The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed an aggressive legislative plan aimed at making the nation energy independent while strengthening national security, lowering energy costs and spurring economic growth, the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) said. However, the ...
Sea Scouts, MTS Seek Next Generation Of Marine Industry Personnel
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Sea Scouts and the Marine Technology Society (MTS) have a memorandum of understanding that allows for member firms to provide opportunities for on-site and onboard working visitation and internships to registered Sea Scouts. The Sea Scout program is celebrating its 100-year ...
Mariner's Choice Line Picked up By Boater's World Retailers
Mar 01, 2008; ... Mariner's Choice (York, Pennsylvania) signed with Boater's World (Irvine, California) retailers last month, and they have added their full product line to Boater's World locations for 2008. With approximately 400 locations in the United States, Boater's World plans to position ...
CCAT to Provide Commercialization Support for New Military Technologies
Mar 01, 2008; ... The San Diego, California-based Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCATM) recently announced plans to award funding and business support for small businesses, government laboratories and academic researchers seeking commercialization assistance for technologies that address ...
IFAW and NMFS Seek Device for Collecting Data on Whale Entanglements
Mar 01, 2008; ... The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service (NMFS) are making up to $70,000 in funds available for the development of technology to provide data collection information about the characteristics of fishing involved ...
Scientists Peg Wind as the Force Behind Fish Booms and Busts
Mar 01, 2008; ... The mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California has vexed marine ecologists for decades. Before its collapse, the fishery was one of the world's most productive. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have now shed ...
Mapping Expedition Yields New Insight into Arctic Depths
Mar 01, 2008; ... New Arctic seafloor data released last month by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suggest that the foot of the continental slope off Alaska is more than 100 nautical miles farther from the U.S. coast than previously ...
Researchers Help Kick Off International Year of the Reef
Mar 01, 2008; ... Scientists working to assess reef conditions in the Caribbean helped launch the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) this January. Based on their preliminary results, IYOR, a campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, is well ...
Teledyne RD Instruments Delivers Its 10,000th Workhorse ADCP
Mar 01, 2008; ... Poway, California-based Teledyne RD Instruments (RDI) recently announced that it has reached two important milestones. First, the company celebrated its 25th year of business in 2007. Since its inception in 1982 through Fran Rowe and Kent Deines' development of the industry's first ...
CTI Holds Successful Workshop In Charleston, South Carolina
Mar 01, 2008; ... Mountain Valley, California-based Chesapeake Technology Inc. (CTI) recently hosted more than 63 professionals for a hands-on training seminar focusing on the use of side scan and sub-bottom sonar software. The three-day event held in the Charleston, South Carolina, area was CTI's third ...
100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet Celebrated
Mar 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Navy is honoring the anniversary of President Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet deployment over the next year to underscore the Navy's commitment to sustaining a Navy and Marine Corps responsive to the challenges of the 21st century, officials said. The secretary of the Navy hosted ...
Largest Marine Protected Area Created in Pacific Ocean
Mar 01, 2008; ... The small Racific Island nation of Kiribati has become a global conservation leader by establishing the world's largest marine protected area-a California-sized ocean wilderness of pristine coral reefs and rich fish populations threatened by overfishing and climate change. The Phoenix ...
USS Harry S. Truman and USNS Arctic Assist Stranded Mariners
Mar 01, 2008; ... The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) rescued seven mariners adrift in a raft in the central Persian Gulf early this winter. While Truman was being replenished, Arctic received a radio call from the British-flagged cargo ship ...
Scientists Look to Improve Management of Spiny Lobsters
Mar 01, 2008; ... Unique, collaborative ways to manage fisheries are emerging in Southern California. Currently, the California spiny lobster is being scrutinized as Californians evaluate the effects of the first five years of marine reserves in the Channel Islands area, along the coast of Southern ...
Federal Court Orders Navy to Limit Sonar Use Around Marine Mammals
Mar 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Federal Court, Central District of California, ordered the Navy to take additional measures when training with mid-frequency active sonar off the California coast. On January 3, the court issued a preliminary injunction that requires sonar to be shut down any time marine mammals ...
Impacts of Fossil Fuels On Fish and People Found
Mar 01, 2008; ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist John lncardona reported on a previously unrecognized threat to human health from a ubiquitous class of air pollutants in a recent symposium organized by NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative in Boston, ...
IXSEA Delivers OCTANS 1000 to Fugro Singapore
Mar 01, 2008; ... Fugro Singapore (Singapore) recently took delivery of OCTANS 1000 from IXSEA (Brest, France), part of an order of eight OCTANS for their FCV 3000 work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems. The FCV 3000 is a 150-horsepower deepwater ROV designed and built in-house by Fugro. It is ...
Three Navy Ships 'Buzzed' by Iranian Boats in Persian Gulf
Mar 01, 2008; ... Following a routine transit of the Strait of Hormuz, three U.S. Navy (USN) ships in international waters in the Persian Gulf and five Iranian small attack boats recently demonstrated irresponsible confrontational behavior. Five boats, suspected to be from the Islamic Republic of Iran ...
product development
Mar 01, 2008; ... For more information on any of these product items, visit our Web site at www.sea-technology.com/products.html. Pneumatic Rotary Hammer Model 2-2404-0010 pneumatic rotary hammer is ATEX certified. It uses SDS-plus solid carbide-tipped masonry drill bits up to 1 in. and SDSplus ...
CARIS Achieves International Organization for Standardization 9001:2000 Certification
Mar 01, 2008; ... CARIS (Fredericton, Canada) has announced that they recently achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2000 certification. A globally recognized quality management standard developed by ISO, ISO 9001:2000 applies to organizations that design, develop, ...
E-Farice Selects Tyco to Construct Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Connecting Iceland and Denmark
Mar 01, 2008; ... E-Farice (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Tyco Telecommunications (Morristown, New Jersey) announced this January that they have signed a contract to construct the DANICE undersea fiber optic system to provide high-bandwidth connectivity between Landeyjar, Iceland, and Blaabjerg, Denmark. The system ...
L-3 Communications Klein Receives Security System Order
Mar 01, 2008; ... L-3 Communications Klein Associates Inc. (Salem, New Hampshire) recently announced that it has received its fourth consecutive order for a HarborGuard Early Warning Detection System. The system will be installed on an offshore construction vessel operating in coastal waters. This award ...
GME Appoints Whiffletree As New U.S. Distributor
Mar 01, 2008; ... GME (Sydney, Australia) recently chose Whiffletree Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts) to handle sales, marketing and technical support of the company's commercial maritime and recreational marine products in North America. "We have been studying the U.S. market for several years and realized ...
PHA Commission Approves Port Security Initiatives
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) in Texas recently approved nearly $3 million in port security initiatives, including fiber optics equipment at the Bayport Terminal and repairs at Wharf No.1. They also approved more than $15.3 million in environmental ...
UKHO Adds ENCs to Cover Important Canadian Waterways
Mar 01, 2008; ... Canadian electronic navigational charts (ENCs), which include the nation's busiest port and one of the world's major inland waterways, have been added for the first time to the U.K. Hydrographic Office's (UKHO) Admiralty database. The Canadian cells boost the number of official cells ...
FY 09 Budget Plan Shortchanges Security, Says Security Industry
Mar 01, 2008; ... The security Industry Association (SIA) sharply criticized President George W Bush's fiscal year 2009 (FY 09) spending plan last month, calling the proposed reductions in security grants programs, "shortsighted and irresponsible." Released in February, the FY 09 budget significantly ...
Alliance Named Owner's Engineer for FPSO in U.S. GOM
Mar 01, 2008; ... Alliance Engineering (Houston, Texas) has been appointed Topsides Owner's Engineer by Petrobras America (Houston) for the first floating, production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to be used in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Alliance will assist Petrobras for up to a three-year ...
Agreement Means New Jobs for U.S. Mariners on LNG Tankers
Mar 01, 2008; ... New seafaring jobs on liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels will go to American citizens licensed as ships' officers under an agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Ltd. (London, England). Under the agreement, Shell ...
Workstrings Completes Acquisition of Oiltek
Mar 01, 2008; ... Workstrings LLC (Broussard, Louisiana), a subsidiary of Superior Energy Services (Harvey, Louisiana), recently announced its acquisition of Oiltek (Bogota, Colombia). "As Superior Energy's first acquisition in Colombia, this addition complements its existing inspection and rental tool ...
Expro Announces LOI with Aker Oilfield Services Ltd.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Expro (Reading, England) announced last month the signing of a letter of intent (LOI) with Aker Oilfield Services Ltd. (Oslo, Norway) to jointly market its proprietary AX-S rigless intervention technology together with Aker Oilfield Services' fleet of well intervention vessels. The ...
Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
Mar 01, 2008; ... Working as part of the National Science Foundation's West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core Project, a team of scientists, engineers, technicians and students from multiple U.S. institutions have recovered a 580-meter ice core-the first section of what is hoped to be a two-mile-long ...
Natural Ocean Thermostat May Protect Some Coral Reefs
Mar 01, 2008; ... Natural processes may prevent oceans from warming beyond a certain point, helping protect some coral reefs from the impacts of climate change, new research finds. The study, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Australian Institute of Marine Science, shows ...
Lake Mead Could Be Dry by 2021
Mar 01, 2008; ... There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, a new study finds. Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the ...
Bisso Marine Salvages Buried Crane
Mar 01, 2008; ... Bisso Marine (Houston, Texas) recently mobilized a salvage team, the salvage support barge CB Big Eagle and the 700-ton capacity DB Cappy Bisso to salvage a crawler crane which had fallen into the Atchafalaya River in Berwick, Louisiana. The crane, which weighed approximately 100 tons, ...
Donjon Marine Provides Salvage Services to Dredge New York
Mar 01, 2008; ... In late January, Donjon Marine Co. Inc. (Hillside, New Jersey) was contracted by owners of the 200-foot-long excavator style dredge New York to supply heavy lift, diving and related salvage services after the dredge was struck by the 669-foot vessel Orange Sun while working in Newark Bay, New ...
Expro Celebrates First Offshore Platform Retrofit Success
Mar 01, 2008; ... Expro (Aberdeen, Scotland) achieved the successful application of its Cableless Telemetry System (CaTS(TM)) in a challenging offshore platform well in the North Sea. The CaTS technology was successfully applied in well W160 on the Mungo Platform (UKCS block 22/20). The well, operated by ...
contracts
Mar 01, 2008; ... Offshore Systems Ltd., Burnaby, Canada, contract awarded (terms not provided) for the delivery of asset control tracking (ACT) systems. ACT is a command and control solution that can be deployed on land, air or seabased assets. The system is designed to address the demands of operating scenarios ...
people
Mar 01, 2008; ... SeaTrepid (Robert, Louisiana) announced that James Landry Sr. joined the organization as director of operations last month. Landry has assumed full operational management of SeaTrepid's day-to-day operations in both the observation-class and working-class remotely operated vehicle ...
st looks back
Mar 01, 2008; ... March Issue 25 Years Ago 1983. The now-defunct HMB Subwork Ltd. developed the Mantis remotely operated vehicle, which was said to be the world's first submersible capable of operating in either the manned or unmanned mode ....The Deep Sea Drilling Project unearthed evidence from ...
soapbox
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Wired Ocean: A New Paradigm for Business and Collaboration - Stephen Andrade As member of Battelle's Technology Partnership Practice, Stephen Andrade's recent projects include a Massachusetts coastal ocean observation collaborative, strengthening a southeastern New England marine ...