Undersea Cables: The Unseen Backbone of the Global Internet
Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind these everyday miracles lies an unseen, sprawling web of undersea cables, quietly powering the instant global communications that people have come to rely on.Undersea cables, also known as submarine communications cables, are fiber-optic cables laid on the ocean floor and used to transmit data between continents. These cables are the backbone of the global internet, carrying the bulk of international communicat
USACE Survey & Mapping Employees Awarded for USV Innovation
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ employees in the New York District’s Survey and Mapping Branch, Operations Division, have been recognized with the 2023 Innovation of the Year Award from Army Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., a national honor recognizing outstanding accomplishments in engineering forwarding the mission and serving the Nation.A team of 36 employees planned, designed and built SURVEYOR AMY, a 6.5-foot unmanned craft that can travel at 16 knots and collects hydrographic survey data ─ measuring the physical features of bodies of water and adjacent land areas, including
Motus to Supply Platform Main Crane for Empire Wind 1 OSS
components from the harsh offshore conditions and to reduce the required maintenance and start-up time for mobilizing/demobilizing on the platform. Following completion, the Empire Wind 1 OSS Platform will be operated by Equinor. The 810 MW offshore wind will power several hundred thousand homes in New York and is expected to be a significant contributor in supporting the U.S. energy transition goals for a low-carbon future.“This contract award supports our strategy to increase our supply of high-end cranes to the renewable industry. Through its operations in the U.S., the Empire Wind platform
TDI-Brooks Completes Survey Off New York & New Jersey
February 2024, TDI-Brooks conducted an extensive site investigation program in two offshore wind blocks in state and federal waters. The projects involved surveying in excess of 20,000 line-kms of analogue and either single or multi-channel seismic in lease blocks and cable routes along the coasts of New York and New Jersey. Various tasks were carried out at different stages, such as offshore geophysical surveys, UHRS detailed surveys, archaeological identification surveys, light geotechnical coring, and benthic sampling.TDI-Brooks utilized three survey vessels, namely the Brooks McCall, Miss Emma McCall
Exail's DriX USV Concludes Marine Survey on US Wind Farm Areas
on biomass and fish stock before, during and after wind farm construction.Equipped with a SeapiX-R 3D high resolution multibeam echosounder from Exail, two Kongsberg EK80 single beam echosounders and a Nortek ADCP, the DriX USV performed this survey off the coast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York.The survey was done on behalf of NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Research Science Center (NEFSC), in close collaboration with NOAA USxOC, as well as Kongsberg and Nortek.Operating 24/7 in supervised autonomous mode, the DriX USV covered over 5,000 km of navigation lines, safely operating within
Underwater Metal Detectors Help Solve Crimes
detector that will locate any metallic object, which is key component to finding disposed of weapons, cell phones and any other items that criminals don’t want found.According to the manufacturer, it was used in helping to recover evidence in one of the highest profile murder mysteries to hit the New York City area. In the Spring of 2010, a woman named Shannon Gilbert made a phone call to 911. She had been at an individual’s home on Long Island and said she believed someone was after her. She fled the known location on foot and told the 911 operator there were people trying to kill her. Then
The Curious Case of the 1,200 MW Transmission Size “Limit” in New England
has led to the impression that this has been a long-standing ceiling in the region and a sense that it would be a significant effort to lift the limit. If the 1,200 MW ceiling is relatively recent, what is the long-standing single source New England loss limit agreed to by the predecessors of the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), ISO-NE, and PJM Interconnection (PJM) in 1991? 2,200 MW. Instead of a ceiling, the 1,200 MW is a floor that the three systems will redispatch power flows on their system to maintain. The 1991 agreement, the “Procedure to Protect for the
Prysmian Group Inks €900 Million Cable Systems Deal with Clean Path New York
Italian power and telecom cable-making and installation services firm Prysmian Group has signed an agreement worth around €900 million with Clean Path New York to provide subsea and land power cable systems for one of the largest transmission infrastructure projects in the United States.Clean Path New York is an $11 billion renewable energy project comprising 3,800 MW of wind and solar power from more than 20 new wind and solar generation resources and a new 175-mile underground and submarine transmission link.Together, these assets will enable the delivery of more than 7.5 million megawatt-hours
MTR100: Underwater Cameras, Lights and Ocean Landers
and imaging.•Christ, Bob; Wernli, Bob, The ROV Manual, Second Edition, Waltham, MA, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014•Moore, Steven; Bohm, Harry; Jensen, Vicki, Underwater Robotics, Hong Kong, Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE), 2010•Cross, E.R., Underwater Photography and Television, New York, Exposition Press, 1954, a seminal early tex
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