Sea Technology back issues from April 2008:
Extreme Wave Effects On Deepwater Floating Structures
Apr 01, 2008; ... New Method Developed for Determining Dynamic Tension Leg Platform Response In recent years, hurricanes Ivan, Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico showed the impact extreme waves can have on all types of offshore structures. Extreme waves can cause damage to floating offshore ...
Rising Oil, Gas Demand Spur Deepwater Activities
Apr 01, 2008; ... Oil and Gas Companies Investing Record Amounts to Develop New Technology to Enhance Exploration and Production The search for energy resources continues to push into deeper waters, with oil and gas companies, drilling contractors and oil field equipment manufacturers dedicated to meeting ...
Transporting Equipment and Samples Using Benthic Elevators
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Development of Innovative Solutions For Deep-Sea Transportation Challenges Abenthic elevator is a platform used to transport payloads from the ocean's surface to the bottom and back again. The general configuration of an elevator provides stability in the same way as a hot air ...
At the Crossroads: the Future of U.S. Aquaculture
Apr 01, 2008; ... Experts project a shortfall in U.S. seafood supply in the next 25 years. They also agree that we could offset some of that shortfall by increasing the domestic production of seafood through aquaculture. With that in mind, I'd like to reflect on what U.S. aquaculture could look like in 20 years ...
soundings
Apr 01, 2008; ... * Coast Guard Emphasizes America's Waterway Watch Program. The U.S. Coast Guard unveiled the America's Waterway Watch program this February in Seattle, Washington. America's Waterway Watch is akin to a neighborhood watch program, but for Puget Sound waterways, and offers a hotline to report ...
Offshore Wind Energy: The Next North Sea Oil
Apr 01, 2008; ... Potentials and Assessments of Offshore Wind Energy Systems: Where are the Best Sites for Offshore Wind Farms in Australia? Offshore wind energy is the next North Sea oil. It is one of the most important renewable energy sources, and it has attracted growing attention from researchers and ...
SEA CON Technology Crucial To Antarctic Research Project
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sensors Relay Data from Deep in the South Pole Ice Cap Via Satellite to University of Wisconsin, Madison An ambitious scientific research project at the South Pole, appropriately called IceCube, has brought together academia and industry to study elusive subatomic particles from ...
OTC '08 Expands Program to Four Full Days
Apr 01, 2008; ... The 2008 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC '08), taking place May 5 through 8 at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas, is expanding to cover four full days of programming, plus offering additional exhibit space. This year's conference, "Waves of Change," offers presentations through Thursday ...
CHC/NSC 2008: Bringing Land and Sea Together
Apr 01, 2008; ... For the first time, the Canadian Hydrographic Conference (CHC) will join with the National Surveyor's Conference (NSC) for a cohosted event, CHC/NSC 2008. The delegates will meet in Victoria, Canada, at the Victoria Conference Centre from May 5 to 8. The host hotel for the event is the Fairmont ...
Teledyne Marine: Industry Collaboration at its Best
Apr 01, 2008; ... Seven Manufacturers Now Working Together to Meet the Industry's Needs In August 2005, Teledyne Technologies, Inc. acquired RD Instruments Inc., a leading manufacturer of underwater acoustic Doppler products. The acquisition of RD Instruments proved to be the first of many Teledyne ...
USGS Announces 2008 Minerals Research Grant Recipients
Apr 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced in early February three grant award recipients for the 2008 Mineral Resources External Research Program, which encourages minerals research. The Mineral Resources External Research Program invited research proposals that will help ensure a ...
U.S. Army Corps Dam Break Study Project is Completed
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed 10 dam break studies on selected dams in Hawaii, with the final study finished in March. The studies became a priority following the collapse of Kaloko Dam on Kauai island on March 14, 2006. The ...
MMS Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193 Breaks Energy Records with $2.6 Billion in High Bids
Apr 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) recently completed the first Chukchi Sea sale since 1991. This offshore lease sale was the most successful in Alaska's history based on the number of bids received and the number of tracts receiving bids. The sale ...
Microorganisms Skip CO2 and Oxygen Step in Photosynthesis
Apr 01, 2008; ... A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis. Photosynthesis by plants, algae and some bacteria supports nearly all living things by producing food from sunlight, and in the process, these organisms release oxygen and absorb carbon ...
'Breath' of the Ocean Links Fish Feeding Reefs, Climate
Apr 01, 2008; ... An ocean odor that affects global climate also gathers reef fish to feed as they "eavesdrop" on events that might lead them to food. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is given off by algae and phytoplankton, microscopic one-celled plants that float in the ocean. Release of DMSP usually ...
New Method to Estimate Sea Ice Thickness
Apr 01, 2008; ... Scientists recently developed a new modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness. This is the only model based entirely on historical observations, according to the scientists. The model was developed by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Russian Academy of ...
Project to Develop Next-Generation AUV Announced at Subsea '08
Apr 01, 2008; ... Subsea 7 (George Town, Cayman Islands) and seeByte Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) have joined forces to develop a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for the offshore oil and gas industry. SeeByte and Subsea 7 aim to provide the industry with a new concept in autonomous inspection and ...
Fugro Chance Works for Five Years with No Lost Time Accidents
Apr 01, 2008; ... Fugro Chance Inc. (Lafayette, Louisiana) recently announced that they have reached a safety milestone: The company has had no lost time accidents for five years. "This kind of goal cannot be reached without very hard work by many individuals working as a team," said Phil Stutes, ...
HB Rentals and ISS Partner on Equipment Deal in Australia
Apr 01, 2008; ... HB Rentals (Broussard, Louisiana), working in partnership with its sister company, Arnaudville, Louisiana-based International Snubbing Services (ISS), recently announced that they will deliver a custom-equipped engineering cabin from the United States to New Zealand. The firms are ...
C & C Technologies' C-Nav Wins NPCC GcGPS Positioning Contract
Apr 01, 2008; ... The National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC), based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has awarded C & C Technologies (Asia Pacific) Re Ltd. (Singapore) a long-term contract for their C-Nav globally corrected global positioning system (GcGPS) positioning services for the fifth consecutive ...
Eltech Electric and Ships Co. Announce They Have Merged Operations
Apr 01, 2008; ... Eltech Electric Inc. (Seattle, Washington) recently announced that it has purchased Ships Co. Ltd. (Olalla, Washington). Herb Myers, founder and president of Ships Co. Ltd., will head a new Eltech alarm systems division that will design, build and install bulletproof alarm systems for marine and ...
product development
Apr 01, 2008; ... For more information on any of these product items, visit our Web site at www.sea-technology.com/products.html. Electric ROV The Jaguar has the highest payload and thrust in its class, with a simplified control system that makes it easy to pilot, according to the company. At ...
Eel Fishery Decline Blamed on Changing Ocean Conditions
Apr 01, 2008; ... A recent study by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist and colleagues in Japan and the United Kingdom says shifts in ocean/atmosphere conditions may be a primary factor in declining American eel reproduction and survival rates. "Although many aspects of ...
Final Two Buoys Launched to Complete Tsunami Warning System
Apr 01, 2008; ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has deployed two tsunami detection buoys in the South Pacific, completing the buoy network and bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system, officials said. This network of 39 stations provides real-time data to the tsunami warning system ...
Tiny Polyps Need Two Kinds of Carbon to Survive Coral Bleaching
Apr 01, 2008; ... How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that live inside their bodies, said researchers who conducted a recent study. The research ...
Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator Will Test Rimjet Propulsion System
Apr 01, 2008; ... On March 14, Computer Sciences Corp. (El Segundo, California) returned the U.S. Navy's Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator-also called the Sea Jet-with a new modified stern to the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Sea Jet now incorporates the Rimjet propulser, as well as associated mechanical and ...
U.S. Navy Christens Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyer Dewey
Apr 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Navy recently christened the 55th of 62 Arleigh Burfce-class guided-missile destroyers, Dewey (DDG 105). The DDG 105 honors Adm. George Dewey (1837 to 1917), who commanded the Asiatic station from the cruiser Olympia. Shortly after the onset of the Spanish-American War in 1898, ...
NAVCENT Works to Improve Maritime Security in the Persian Gulf Region
Apr 01, 2008; ... The security of Iraq's Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal (KAAOT) was recently upgraded, mainly by the installation of the Tactical Operations Center (TOC), which serves as a permanent centralized command and control location to enhance coalition coordination, said the U.S. Navy. Other ...
USS Essex Performs Night Medical Evacuation in the Sea of Japan
Apr 01, 2008; ... The USS Essex (LHD 2), with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC 25) embarked, recently rescued a merchant sailor who was suffering from stroke-like symptoms aboard a military sealift command ship in the Sea of Japan. Essex received a medical evacuation request from the ocean surveillance ...
Southern Ocean Cruise Probes Climate-Relevant Gases
Apr 01, 2008; ... In late February, more than 30 scientists embarked on a research cruise to the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, where they will study how gases important to climate change move between the atmosphere and the ocean under high winds and seas. The Southern Ocean Gas Exchange ...
Study Shows Ocean 'Deserts' are Expanding
Apr 01, 2008; ... The least biologically productive areas of the oceans are expanding much faster than predicted, according to a new study by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Hawaii. This change in ocean biology, linked to the warming of sea ...
Expedition Provides New Baseline for Reef Conservation
Apr 01, 2008; ... An ambitious expedition led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of information about coral reefs and threats from human ...
Spanish Research Council Purchases New SeaSoar System for RV Sarmiento de Gamboa
Apr 01, 2008; ... West Molesey, England-based Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) is pleased to announce delivery of a new SeaSoar towed undulating system to CSIC (Madrid, Spain) for its new vessel, RV Sarmiento de Gamboa. This SeaSoar has been fitted with a Seabird Electronics (Bellevue, Washington) SBE911 ...
IXSEA Delivers PHINS 6000 Navigation Units to NCS Survey
Apr 01, 2008; ... IXSEA (Marley-le-Roi, France) has announced the sale of two PHINS 6000 units to NCS Survey (Westhill, Scotland). PHINS 6000, with a Doppler velocity log-ready option, is a subsea inertial navigation system, providing subsea vehicles with position, true heading, attitude, speed and heave, ...
WHPacific Inc. First in the Americas To Take Delivery of LYNX Mobile Mapper
Apr 01, 2008; ... Optech Inc. (Vaughan, Canada) announced last month that WHPacific Inc. (Anchorage, Alaska) will be the first North American firm to take delivery of Optech's new LYNX Mobile Mapper(TM). WHPacific chose Optech's LYNX Mobile Mapper to complement its land, precision control, boundary, ...
Marport Receives R&D Assistance From National Research Council Canada
Apr 01, 2008; ... Marport (St. John's, Canada) recently announced that it has signed a contribution agreement with the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) that will provide the company with technical research and development (R&D) assistance in the form of advisory ...
UKHO Global Initiative to Strengthen Ties with Distributors
Apr 01, 2008; ... In a major initiative to strengthen ties with its global network of distributors, the U.K. Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has been undertaking an extensive series of worldwide seminars for its unique network of more than 140 Admiralty distributors, representatives from the organization ...
World's First Commercial-Scale Tidal Stream Turbine Installed
Apr 01, 2008; ... Bristol, England-based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) deployed its 1.2-megawatt SeaGen Tidal System in Strangford Narrows, Northern Ireland, last month. Producing enough clean energy for 1,000 homes (when fully operational), this will be the first commercial-scale tidal stream turbine ...
ETS Invests in Sonardyne Technology to Support Customers in Deepwater Operations
Apr 01, 2008; ... Houston, Texas-based Equipment and Technical Services (ETS) Inc. recently made a commitment to supporting its customers' deepwater operations with a purchase of Sonardyne Wideband® Compatt 5 transponders, the company said. ETS will now have the capability to supply operators in the Gulf ...
Sonardyne Upgrades Acoustic Monitors for Nuclear Ships
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sonardyne International Ltd. (Yateley, England) has completed the latest stage of a program to upgrade a monitoring system that it installed aboard nuclear fuel transport ships more than 20 years ago. The system was developed in 1985 for British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)-which is now known as ...
Fairstar Executes Submersion Test For Heavy Transport Vessel Fjord
Apr 01, 2008; ... This February, Fairstar Heavy Transport NV's (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) heavy transport vessel Fjord successfully completed three days of extensive tests on all aspects of the ballast system. The tests were executed in Malta. The recently converted Fjord is now ready and capable of ...
Petro-Canada Unveils Two Big Offshore Discoveries
Apr 01, 2008; ... Petro-Canada (Calgary, Canada) announced successful results from two international exploration wells-one in the U.K. sector of the North Sea and one in deep water off Trinidad and Tobago. In Trinidad and Tobago, the Cassra-1 well in deepwater Block 22 was completed as a significant ...
StatoilHydro Seals the Deal: Acquires 100 Percent of Peregrino
Apr 01, 2008; ... StatoilHydro (Stavanger, Norway) and Anadarko (The Woodlands, Texas) have signed an agreement whereby StatoilHydro will take over the remaining 50 percent in the Brazilian Peregrino project. This will give StatoilHydro a 100 percent working interest and operatorship of the ...
Infield Systems Ltd. Publishes Fixed Platforms Market Update
Apr 01, 2008; ... Infield Systems Ltd. (London, England) recently published its second fixed platform market update. It forecasts that capital expenditures over the next five years for the fixed platform market are expected to be $60 billion. This is an increase of more than 30 percent compared to ...
Petróleo Brasileiro to 'Clone' P-54 FPSO for the Roncador Field
Apr 01, 2008; ... Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) approved the early stage of contracting for platform P-62 this month, slated to be installed in Module 4 at the Roncador Field, in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. After carrying out several internal technical and economic studies, the ...
contracts
Apr 01, 2008; ... Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS), Jupiter, Florida, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply 10 next-generation Triton® XLX remotely operated vehicle systems. PSS will deliver five systems each year throughout 2009 and 2010. This latest order brings the total number of PSS systems contracted ...
Naval Forces Under the Sea: The Rest of the Story
Apr 01, 2008; ... Naval Forces Under the Sea: The Rest of the Story By the Office of Naval Research Hardcover. 402 pp. Best Publishing Co. $29.95. The second of two books resulting from a symposium presented at the U.S. Naval Academy, "Naval Forces Under the Sea," which aimed to address and highlight ...
The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure
Apr 01, 2008; ... The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure By Christopher Swann Hardcover. 864 pp. Oceanaut Press. $80.00. This book traces the development of what became an industry, from its beginnings in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1940s to the present day. In addition to the technology, ...
Acoustic Manual for Ships and Platforms
Apr 01, 2008; ... Acoustic Manual for Ships and Platforms By Rockwool Marine & Offshore Paperback or PDF. 88 pp. Rockwool Marine & Offshore. Free. This manual focuses on sound and noise reduction on board ships and platforms. In recent years, there has been an increased focus on comfort on ...
Sunrise Cartel
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sunrise Cartel By Robert Wernli Hardcover. 293 pp. First Centurion Enterprises. $24.95. This book is the sequel to Second Sunrise, the second book in the planned Sunrise Trilogy. The novel showcases advanced underwater technology, which ranges from robotic vehicles to manned submersibles ...
people
Apr 01, 2008; ... Laborde Products (Covington, Louisiana) has appointed Mike Correnti to the position of industrial manager. Since 1993, Correnti worked with outside sales for a gas engine distributor. BlueView Technologies Inc. (Seattle, Washington) recently announced the addition of Warren Fox to its ...
st looksback
Apr 01, 2008; ... April Issue 25 Years Ago 1983. President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation creating an Exclusive Economic Zone seaward from U.S. shores for 200 nautical miles, and both houses of the U.S. Congress followed with corresponding bills asserting the United States' exclusive rights ...
soapbox
Apr 01, 2008; ... What Do You Get When You Cross the 'Blue Water' and 'Brown Water' Navies? - Marianne Mokhan What threat caused 200 percent more ship casualties than all other sources combined since 1950? Mines. Those small yet devastating weapons in an aggressor's arsenal have moved to the forefront of ...
Early-Stage Tidal Stream Generators
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Role of Physical Model Tests in Determining Commercial Viability While conducting a feasibility study commissioned by the Isle of Wight Council in southern England, Marine and Technical Management Consultants Ltd. identified the need for a cost-effective methodology for hydrodynamic ...