Teledyne Valeport Water Announces Shallow Water Hyperion32
for users who don’t require deep-sea capability. Its 32 mm diameter housing also offers a lighter, more compact form factor, making it ideal for a broad range of water quality monitoring applications where space, ease of deployment are key considerations.The Hyperion range, named after the Titan god of light, is an industry leading suite of optical sensors, packaged in Teledyne Valeport’s signature Titanium housings, offering precise measurement of a number of parameters. With the Hyperion32, Teledyne Valeport Water delivers the same trusted optical performance found in the original
Bayesian Yacht Disaster: How Specialist Search and Rescue Teams Work Underwater
migrants on unseaworthy boats. Then there are issues related to mechanical difficulties, such as the Argentinian San Juan submarine in 2017, and plane crashes such as the still-missing Maylasian Airlines MH370 plane in 2013.Finally, there are searches for missing divers or underwater craft like the Titan submersible which imploded during a dive to the Atlantic wreck site of the Titanic in 2023.Diver cautionThe search for the missing in the sunken Bayesian yacht – the cause of which is currently uncertain – should have been relatively straightforward. Helicopters, likely equipped with
Two PGS Vessels Kick-Start Surveys Offshore Norway
Norwegian seismic company PGS has started seismic survey operations in the northern hemisphere, using two Titan-class Ramform vessels and an ultra-high-res 3D spread.PGS’ Ramform Tethys has picked up the reins on the 2024 Norwegian Sea GeoStreamer X survey, adding new coverage and a new layer of understanding in this exploration hotspot.Acquisition design includes wide-towed sources and dense streamers for improved near-offset distribution, and also long streamer tails for accurate velocity model building.By the end of the season the PGS data library will offer around 20 000 sq. km of GeoStreamer
PGS Secures 3D Contract in South Atlantic
Marine seismic data company PGS has received a letter of award for a large 3D contract offshore South Atlantic margin from a multiclient company.A Ramform Titan-class vessel is scheduled for mobilization in June, with a forecast acquisition duration of up to 300 days.The value of the contract has not been disclosed, but PGS announces contract awards with a value of $10 million or more, multiclient projects with a duration of 2 months or more, and strategically important contracts.“Seismic activity offshore South Atlantic margin is increasing as a result of recent exploration success, and we are
PGS Hooks Northern Europe Seismic Deal
Northern Europe summer season for the Ramform Tethys. By combining the Ramform acquisition platform with our proprietary multi-sensor GeoStreamer technology we will quickly provide the client with high-quality 4D seismic data,” said Rune Olav Pedersen, President & CEO in PGS.Ramform Tethys is a Titan-class ship as 24 streamer reels, 16 abreast with a further 8 in a second row.This allows the vessel to take full advantage of our GeoStreamer technology and perform acquisition of high-volume exploration 3D, or high-density 3D or 4D seismic data
Glamox to Light Up PGS’ Seismic Vessels
of the eight vessels.PGS’s switch to energy-efficient LED lighting is being driven by its desire to comply with emission reduction targets, new regulations, and its own sustainability targets.The LED luminaires will be fitted into eight vessels that operate worldwide: Ramform Vanguard, Atlas, Titan, Hyperion, Tethys, Victory, Sovereign, and PGS Apollo.The vessels undertake seismic surveys to gather geophysical data to create detailed maps of sub-surface conditions. This information is used by offshore energy and mineral companies, and increasingly by offshore wind farm developers to determine
Authorities Reviewing Evidence from Titan Submersible Tragedy
Authorities from the U.S., Canada and France are combing through evidence recovered from the Titan submersible that suffered a catastrophic implosion en route to the wreckage of the Titanic in June.Investigators from the U.S. Coast Guard, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and the French Marine Casualty Investigation Authority (BEAmer) conducted an onsite evidence review in Newport, R.I., on November 8, as part of their respective parallel safety investigations."This effort underscores the importance of international and interagency coordination
Titan Submersible Debris and Human Remains Recovered from the Seafloor
The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday said its engineers recovered remaining debris and presumed human remains from the imploded Titan submersible in the North Atlantic.The evidence recovered from the seafloor by marine safety engineers with the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) was transferred to shore for analysis as part of ongoing investigations into the fatal incident.In June, the Titan imploded while on a voyage to visit the wreck site of the famed sunken ocean liner Titanic, killing all five people on board. The deep-sea submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, was
U.S. Revives Cold War Submarine Spy Program to Counter China
operations remains the global network of listening cables first laid during the Cold War, still the best subsea spying infrastructure in the world, according to two Navy sources with direct knowledge of the system.Those cables were instrumental in solving the mystery surrounding the privately owned Titan submersible that imploded in June, killing five people on a voyage to view the century-old wreckage of the Titanic, the sources said.The U.S. Navy said in a statement that it had assisted in the search for the Titan after an analysis of acoustic data detected “an anomaly consistent with an
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