Milestones

Based around Portsmouth, Southampton and the South East of the Isle of Wight, ASV Global along with BAE Systems, Blue Bear Systems Research (Blue Bear), Marine Electronic Systems (MES), SeeByte and the University of Southampton, will work together to provide the service’s infrastructure, with other organizations set to join later this year.

In July, Valeport, a leading UK manufacturer of oceanographic, hydrographic and hydrometric instrumentation underwent a number of ISO audits, successfully updating the firm’s certifications to ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management and ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management. For the first time in 2017, Valeport is also now certified to BS OHSAS 18001, the internationally applied British Standard for occupational health and safety.

Spend an hour with CTI Chief Scientist, David Finlayson, as he highlights the major new features of SonarWiz 7 and discusses the migration from previous versions of SonarWiz.

Alex Miller, Hawkins Williams, and Alex Dewar have been selected as recipients of the Marine Technology Society’s 2017 ROV Committee Scholarships. In addition, Nicholas Orndorff received MTS ROV Committee MATE Center Scholarship.

Greensea, creator of OPENSEA^TM, the universal marine industry operating platform, has recently announced the appointment of Geoffrey Abbott as Robotics Engineer. Prior to joining Greensea, Geoff was a software development manager at MyWebGrocer, where he led a team in the Rapid Application Development Group.

Aquatec Group announces the launch of Aquatec Rentals, a comprehensive rental service featuring the most popular oceanographic, environmental and offshore instruments.

ASL Environmental Sciences Inc. has recently been assigned by Deep Water Buoyancy as the sales representative for British Columbia (BC), Alberta and Alaska. This builds on our previous experience using Deep Water Buoyancy’s flotation in the field and adds to our comprehensive range of oceanographic instruments, mooring design, deployment considerations and data analysis.

During the past year MMT have gained a good market position and in order to keep developing MMT have now taken important steps to continue to grow their business, chartered a new vessel M/V Olympic Delta and invest in Surveyor Interceptor no 2. Both initiatives will expand our possibility to meet customer increased demand for our services.

Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has announced a multimillion pound contract with a global energy player, Maersk Oil UK, to provide both late life production enhancement and decommissioning support in the North Sea.

The Marine Technology Society (MTS) and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), cosponsored the "OCEANS '17 MTS/IEEE Aberdeen”, from 19-22 June 2017, at the AECC in Aberdeen, Scotland. OCEANS Aberdeen was the 60th edition of this premier global ocean engineering and marine technology forum.

Viking SeaTech has appointed Kiran Chandrasekharan to a newly created post of naval architect at its base in Aberdeen.

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) announces that Mark Shaffer has joined the company as a Bids and Proposals Manager overseeing the complete proposal delivery process including pricing, composition, and scheduling for our Oil and Gas Division.