Cyprus Subsea Seaglider Fleet is Ready for Action
projects globally, Cyprus Subsea’s 1000-m rated M1 Seagliders are a boost in its capacity to provide real-time environmental monitoring services in the open seas for diverse applications.“For gliders to fulfil their full potential as a cost-effective, low carbon marine monitoring and research tool, the barriers to their usage must be reduced or removed. The learning curve and initial investment are too high for most, and we believe we can help by providing our expertise and assets as a turnkey solution anywhere in the world,” said Daniel Hayes, Managing Director, CSCS Ltd.Equipped
The Evolution of Ocean Models
will become a reality in the foreseeable future,” he says. “But such model runs are still too computationally expensive, meaning they take a lot of time to run and generate a lot of data. So, the distinction should be made between what is possible in principle, and what can be used as a research tool.” In fact he believes that the future of ocean modeling may follow a similar pathway to that of weather prediction, where ensembles of model runs are performed to get a feeling for multiple potential future states of the ocean – not just one. “The problem
New Docking Head for Schmidt’s ROV SuBastian
safely accommodate trouble-free passage. Recent testing and integration in the open ocean of the ROV SuBastian from aboard its 272 foot oceanographic research vessel Falkor turned out very satisfactorily placing SuBastian in real-world conditions, demonstrating its functionality as a modern research tool with innovative systems. MacArtney has supplied more products to Schmidt Ocean Institute and the R/V Falkor in addition to the MERMC D docking head for handling the ROV SuBastian, among them a MERMAC R30 AHC winch as well as an A-frame. The MacArtney products made optimal performances
Schmidt Tests its New ROV in Guam
in the western Pacific. Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) has been working this summer, testing and integrating its new ROV from aboard its 272 foot oceanographic research vessel Falkor. The 25-day testing placed ROV SuBastian in real-world conditions, demonstrating its functionality as a modern research tool with innovative systems. The ROV tests and trials included 22 dives and more than 100 hours underwater. Now that the vehicle has been tested, the team is working on making tweaks and improvements so that SuBastian is ready for its first research cruise later this year, visiting the Mariana Back-Arc
Jasco has a Long History in Acoustics
stated. So JASCO developed its required hardware and never intended to sell that equipment commercially. However, as things turned out “we have developed products that people have come in and said that is pretty slick and can we buy it. So we have started to do that. We have taken an in-house research tool and we are now in early stages of bringing it to the market and selling it,” Moloney said. The main piece of equipment Moloney referred to is called the AMAR G3, an autonomous multi-channel acoustic recorder which can stream real time data. “It is a very capable device, designed
February 2024
