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Alec Rose landed at Portsmouth in Lively Lady, having sailed single-handed around the world.
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Ruth Lawrence achieved the best first-class mathematics degree at the University of Oxford, England, at the age of 13.
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Members of the Orange Order, the largest Protestant organization in Northern Ireland, held their annual parade in Drumcree, Portadown, Northern Ireland. The march ended peacefully, in contrast to many previous years when it had sparked off sectarian violence.
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SERPENT project has enthusiastic support from the children of Tunza 2008
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Friday, 04 July (6 reads) |
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  A thousand participants from 106 countries descended on Stavanger, Norway last week to attend Tunza 2008, the UN's International Children's Conference on the Environment.
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ROV: FMC Buys ACROV
Posted by jamesmc on Friday, 04 July (13 reads) |
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  ACCESS Co UK Ltd, Britain’s leading Micro ROV manufacturer has delivered an ACROV Underwater Inspection System to FMC Technologies Ltd.
FMC Technologies, the leading manufacturer and supplier of subsea production systems, had a requirement to update and improve the visual inspection of subsea equipment within their test tank. Historically, a network of dropper cameras has been used to monitor the testing of equipment.
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Tyco Telecommunications and NEC begin construction of Unity Cable System
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Friday, 04 July (6 reads) |
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 Tyco Telecommunications (US) Inc. and NEC Corporation today announced the commencement of construction on the Unity Cable System, a high-bandwidth, trans-Pacific, optical submarine cable system that will link Los Angeles, U.S. to Chikura, Japan. The contract for the project was signed on February 23, 2008, between the Unity Consortium, comprising of six purchasers, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, Pacnet and SingTel and suppliers Tyco Telecommunications and NEC Corporation.
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End of life/service notifications for SeaBat 9001 and 6012 multibeam sonar syste
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Friday, 04 July (9 reads) |
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 The RESON SeaBat 9001 and SeaBat 6012 Systems have served RESON's customers well for many years. RESON, however, decided to discontinue production and service support of these systems immediately as their vendors discontinue the manufacture of some of the required components. However, some components 'might' still be available as new or second-hand parts on a first-come basis. Please contact a RESON service center in each case.
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Survey: Allseas Group purchases eight additional SeaBat 7125 multibeam sonar systems
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Thursday, 03 July (15 reads) |
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 RESON B.V. has been awarded a new contract by the Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A's to deliver a total of eight SeaBat 7125 multibeam sonar systems with four Teledyne-TSS 440 Pipetrackers and four sets of Valeport CTD and current sensors. The sensors will be used on remotely operated vehicles (ROV) down to depths of 4000 meters.
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CodaOctopus launches pre-calibrated weather-proof mounting for Octopus F180 iner
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Thursday, 03 July (17 reads) |
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 CodaOctopus is pleased to announce an innovative new option which will significantly reduce the time taken to install a motion sensor on survey vessels of all sizes. CodaOctopus has designed a pre-calibrated weather-proof mounting to house the Octopus F180 inertial sensors and it also accommodates the twin Novatel antennas, enabling the system to be calibrated prior to being installed.
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Saipem signs the contract for the Nord Stream pipeline worth more than 1 billion
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Thursday, 03 July (38 reads) |
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 Saipem and Nord Stream AG have signed the contract for laying the Nord Stream gas pipeline, worth more than 1 billion Euro.
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Seatronics opens new calibration lab and cable moulding facility in Houston
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Wednesday, 02 July (15 reads) |
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 Leading marine equipment rental and sales company Seatronics Ltd has expanded its operation in the USA with a recent $200,000 investment in a new calibration lab and cable moulding facility.
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RTS Collaboration
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Wednesday, 02 July (16 reads) |
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| Maintaining their excellent relationship with Norwegian area representative RTS AS, Seatronics are to combine their technical resources with their Norwegian counterparts to establish a new Product Technology Division. The new division will incorporate all the technical resources within the two companies and, based on client feedback from overseas offices, introduce new products that are tailor-made to client requirements.
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Survey: Seatronics purchased Sonardyne subsea positioning systems recently
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Wednesday, 02 July (15 reads) |
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| Continuing their long association with Sonardyne Ltd, Seatronics Ltd have committed to another £2m worth of investment in digital wideband LBL and USBL equipment.
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ROV: ROVworld Lda takes delivery of first AC-ROV system
Posted by jamesmc on Wednesday, 02 July (42 reads) |
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 On 20th June 2008, at the Aberdeen offices of Ac-cess Co UK Ltd. ROVworld Lda formalised an agreement of distribution for AC-ROV systems.
Gina McLauchlan, manager at ROVworld Lda, signed the agreement in the presence of Callum Magee, sales manager for Ac-cess Co UK Ltd.
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SolidWorks Robotics University: School's in for summer
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Tuesday, 01 July (26 reads) |
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 Kids, getting bored with summer vacation already? SolidWorks Robotics University (SRU) may be just the antidote.
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Nautilus Minerals signs contract for Solwara 1 project Mining Support Vessel
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Tuesday, 01 July (26 reads) |
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 Nautilus Minerals Inc. announces that it has entered into a binding agreement with North Sea Shipping Holding AS to provide the specialist Mining Support Vessel ("MSV") for Nautilus' Solwara 1 Project in Papua New Guinea. North Sea Shipping is a leading Norwegian ship owner and operator in the offshore oil and gas industry. They will provide a 160m dynamically postioned specialist new build ship, on a five year charter basis with options to extend for another five years.
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AC-ROV makes strides in RVI sector
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Tuesday, 01 July (24 reads) |
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| The dominance of the AC-ROV micro submersible in the Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) market has been reinforced with the sale of a system to one of the worlds leading RVI specialists Dacon Inspection Services of Norway.
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AC-ROV hits Gulf of Mexico
Posted by Rons_ROV_Links on Monday, 30 June (34 reads) |
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The rapidly growing global presence of the AC-ROV underwater inspection system took another step forward this month with the unveiling of the latest company to join the AC-CESS international distributor network.
Louisiana based Underwater Observations Inc (UOI). has an impressive pedigree in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) marine and offshore industries. Formed specifically to take the AC-ROV to the GoM marketplace, UOI is a subsidiary of Mid Gulf Shipping Company Inc.
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