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Ambassador Oi08 Visit Netherlands Her Majesty’s Ambassador, Pim Waldek, made a visit to the stand of the Dutch Ocean Group on Tuesday 11 March during Oceanology International. The entrepreneurs, who earlier that afternoon organised a lunch, were delighted to inform the ambassador about the activities of the participating companies.

For the ambassador, this meeting represented an opportunity to experience the challenges companies may have when they are trading in the UK – and of course what they have to offer!

Frans van Dongen (right) explaining the structure of the Dutch Ocean Group.

Chaired by Dr Wyn Williams, the plenary session opened with an introduction by Dr Ralph Rayner. Describing the Kyoto Protocol as a “token effort”, Dr Raynor demonstrated the minor impact it will have on rising temperature levels. Reminding the audience that the price of oil reached USD106 per barrel just last week, an important theme for the conference was set. Not only do the oceans play an important role in climate change, provide food and facilitate trade, but they are also key to meeting future energy demands.

Professor Robert Watson of DEFRA discussed the role of the oceans in climate change. Multi-ship observing systems are now in place to record carbon exchange between atmosphere and the ocean, and to inves-tigate how this exchange varies with latitude, longitude and season. It has been observed that the amount of carbon absorbed by the ocean varies not just with latitude and season, but also from year-to-year. The decrease in CO2 emissions required to stabilize carbon exchange, and prevent further acidi-fication of the oceans, was examined.

Professor Watson provided projections of sea surface temperature and sea level rise over the next 100 years (1–6°C and 20–50 cm, respectively). However, these

projections (IPCC) do not take into account uncer-tainties surrounding the possible melting of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets. Other projec-tions include the complete melting of ice in the Arctic, an increase in hurricane intensity and a change to amore El Niño-like climate. The latter would have devastating consequences for global fisheries and agriculture, bringing warmer nutrient-poor waters, droughts and flooding. By examining thermal inertia, it was demonstrated that even if emissions are decreased by 50% now, sea surface temperatures will not stabilize for a few hundred years and sea surface levels for several millennia.Continued on page 3

Launching the Oi Message

Dr Wyn Williams

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In this issue

Yesterday’s networking party 4

Vessels at Oi 7

Goldsmiths Bike Britain for Charity 11

An interview withJacqueline Mc Glade9

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ColophonReed Business Geo bv will publish a total of three Oi Show Dailies during the event: Tuesday 11th March, Wednesday, 12th March; Thursday, 13th March.

Publishing Company: Reed Business GeoPublisher: Durk HaarsmaEditorial Manager: Joost BoersEvent Co-ordinator: Trea FledderusContributing Daily Editors: Leeke van der Poel Elaine RowanLayout Editor: Marran HelderSales Manager: Marjan de Vries

Editorial ContributionsEach issue will contain interesting and actual in-formation about the exhibitors, their products and services as well as highlights of technical sessions and meetings. Contributions will come from the editors of various Reed Business Geo publications and representatives of Reed Exhibition. In addition we give the opportunity to companies to publish their press releases together as well as facilitating advertising within the publication.

DeadlinesIf you have news, notices or want to reserve advertising space in Oi Show Daily, please make sure your submission is received or sent to the Press Room located next to our booth (# 1100, Reed business Geo/Hydro international), or e-mail: joost.boers@reedbusiness.nl before 1.30 PM for the next day’s issue.

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IMCA To Hold ROV Seminar At Oi08Developments in ROV technology will come under the seminar spotlight at Oceanology International (OI08) on 12 March, when the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) holds its second ROV seminar at the event being held at London’s ExCeL.

The half-day programme, with speakers from Acergy, the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting, Subsea 7 and Marine Institute Newfoundland, covers robotic convergence, motion forecasting for ROV work; ROV DP: where are we and where are we going?; ROV operator training needs and ends with a panel discussion and networking drinks reception.

Encouraging students to attend OI08IMCA has another important role at OI08. Working with the show organisers Reed Exhibitions, IMarEST and SUT, they are sponsoring transport and an infor-mative student lunch aimed at encouraging university students, eager to find out more about employment in the ocean science and technology industries, to attend the major exhibition and confe-rence on Thursday 13 March.

And Taking An Active Role In Education Programme

Further information is available from Kirsten Conlon, Tel 0208 439 8870, Fax 0208 439 8897 or email Kirsten.conlon@reedexpo.co.uk.

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If Professor Watson highlighted that action must be taken, Professor Jacqueline McGlade of the EEA demonstrated the difficulty in convincing govern-ments to implement what we know. The main problem in safeguarding the marine environment is the lack of integration with sectoral policies including fishing, transport and agriculture. For example, although the aviation industry is under scrutiny, icebreakers are currently excluded from climate discussions.

A major challenge for the world is that of the changing Arctic. Eight countries are currently vying for their share of unexploited ocean; however, the fate of the melting Arctic is the concern of everyone as Professor McGlade explained. Becoming more polluted by the northern hemisphere’s agricultural chemicals and pesticides as well as radioactive waste from e.g. Kola Peninsula, development must take place under strict regulations. The Law of the Sea is weak and unenforceable; it will anyway be irrelevant if the ice melts completely, when the Seabed Commission will become significant.

Captain Dana Gardner of the US Coastguard discussed maritime security, in particular surveillance. Compared to the aviation industry, maritime security is severely lacking. Captain Gardner examined how awareness is the key. Maritime surveillance requires several features: persistence; wide area coverage; and the ability to detect non-cooperating and small vessels. Once data have been acquired, a data-sharing environment is encouraged where information is analysed and distributed. It is Captain Gardner’s vision that coastguard centres of the future will become inter-agency centres.Finally, John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood Ltd presented an alarming seminar on meeting future energy demands. Discussing how world population growth is the main driver behind the increase in demand for oil, leading to its increase in price by a factor of ten over the last decade, he highlighted how

the ‘easy oil’ is gone leaving only resources in Nigeria, Iraq, the Arctic and deep water. Regarding the extraction of natural gas, sources are plentiful but require transportation. Mr Westwood demonstrated the wasteful and polluting nature of this industry using figures from Nigeria (of the 31 million tonnes extracted, almost two-thirds are flared). The predicted expansion of deepwater and oil gas production brings massive technology requirements and anticipated growth in the ROV and AUV industries.

The UK is set to become the largest market in offshore wind power over the next 5 years; however, it can take 3 years from planning to turbine installation. Regarding wave and tidal power, there is enough energy in the ocean for the planet’s demands. However, although over 80 concepts have been proposed, few are commercially viable. Environmental implications must also be considered. Mr Westwood concluded by stating that conventional energy supplies cannot meet forecast demand.

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Teledyne RD Instruments has recently delivered its 10,000th Workhorse Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). In 1982, Fran Rowe and Kent Deines

started RD Instruments through the development of the industry’s first ADCP, a revolutionary device that allowed users to remotely measure the velocity of water throughout the water column with a single instrument.

In 1995, thirteen years after the company’s inception, RD Instruments delivered its first Workhorse Broadband ADCP. This product was created to offer RDI’s customers its proven BroadBand technology in a smaller, lower cost, easy to use package, making it an affordable option for scientists and researchers around the globe. In January 2008, thanks to an expansive Workhorse product line and the company’s continuously growing worldwide customer base, Teledyne RDI celebrated a significant milestone when Workhorse ADCP number 10,000 rolled off the company’s assembly line.

The Workhorse family of ADCPs continues to provide thousands of worldwide users with precision current profiling, waves measurement and/or precision navigation capability. In total, including Teledyne RDI’s non-Workhorse ADCP products, the company has delivered nearly 15,000 instruments worldwide.

In celebration of the Workhorse unit 10,000, Teledyne RDI would like to hear its customers’ ADCP/DVL stories to share them with our community of users. How are you using your Teledyne RDI ADCP or DVL? What interesting discoveries have you made with this data? Teledyne RDI ADCPs are no ordinary tools, and our customers are no ordinary people.

10,000th Workhorse ADCP

Teledyne RD Instruments obviously dedicates their stand to the Workhorse milestone!

Stand 551, Share your extraordinary stories by submitting them online at www.rdinstruments.com/workhorse.html

Networking Party

Dave Nicholson,PDM Neptec Ltd

‘To give an impression: it’s

3PM and I just am at lunch!’SLunch Talk!

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Oi08 Conference Programme Wednesday 12th March

10:30 - 11:30 Distinguished lecture: The Lord Browne of Madingley, The Oceans and a global sustainable energy future

11:00 - 11:30 The Oceanscience Group11:30 - 12:30 The Oceanology International

2008 awards12:00 - 12:30 Partrac Ltd12:30 - 14:00 Break13:00 - 13:30 Muir Matheson Ltd14:00 - 14:30 MiniBAT OSIL14:00 - 14:30 A prototype system for observing

the Atlantic meridional overturn-ing circulation – scientific basis, measurement and risk mitigation strategies, and first results

14:30 - 15:00 Advances in upward looking sonar technology for studying the processes of change in Arctic Ocean ice climate

15:00 - 15:30 Development and field testing of the Doppler Volume Sampler

15:00 - 15:30 Nortek AS15:30 - 16:00 Break16:00 - 16:30 The pocketFerryBox - a new

portable, device for water quality monitoring in oceans and rivers

16:30 - 17:00 A study of gas exchange during the transition from deep winter mixing to spring bloom (2007) in the Bay of Biscay measured by continuous observation from a ship of opportunity

17:00 - 17:30 AutoFlux: an autonomous system for the direct measurement of the air-sea fluxes of CO2, heat and momentum

Product Demontrations11:00 - 11:30 The Oceanscience Group12:00 - 12:30 Partrac Ltd13:00 - 13:30 Muir Matheson Ltd14:00 - 14:30 MiniBAT OSIL15:00 - 15:30 Nortek AS

Associated meetingsRoom 4:11.00 - 13.00 Meeting of IMCA14.00 - 16.30 Meeting of Tritech

Room 5:13.00 - 15.30 Offshore Site Investigation Group

Meeting, Society of underwater Technology

17.30 - 20.30 The Pôle Mer Bretagne Reception

Room 6:13.00 - 15.30 Developments in ROV Tech-

nology IMCA

Room 8: 14.00 - 17.30 EEZ Management by the Defence

Manufactures Association

Platinum suite room 512.00 - 14.00 Meeting of the UK Hydrographic

Society

Platinum suite room 69.00 - 18.00 Acergy Survey Technical/

Discipline Seminar

IXSEA will be realising a live satellite linkup at Oi08. Visitors to booth 400 will watch IXSEA’s seafloor mapping and subsea positioning systems and solutions in action via satellite linkup with the MINIBEX oceanographic vessel in the Mediter-ranean Sea. With four satellite linkups daily, demonstrations will include: 10am - GAPS: Successful accoustic subsea positioning in very shallow water12pm - SHADOWS: Real-time, georeferenced, wide coverage and constant resolution seabed mapping with SAS2pm - RAMSES: New and innovative embedded data fusion for sparse array navigation4pm - PHINS & DVL: Subsea inertial navigation and positioning in actionAccording to IXSEA CEO Thierry Gaiffe, this is a great way to demonstrate the breadth and depth of our systems and solutions.

Live Underwater Action at Oi

Ixsea is bridging the sky at Oi!

Visitors to Oceanology International 2008 at London Excel will be able to find out more about the world class services available from Hydrographic Expertise. The Hydrographic Expertise team will be at Stand 114 along with colleagues from Seazone and Seven Cs.UKHO’s experts are available to provide impartial

advice on the best course of action to fulfil client needs including the planning, oversight and delivery of hydrographic surveys, capability building and infor-mation to contribute to the success of marine and coastal zone projects. Hydrographic Expertise can liaise, on behalf of the client, with funding bodies if required.David Lye, Head of Hydrographic Expertise, said that their experts provide a single source of expertise for the scoping, planning, management and oversight of hydrographic surveys, coastal zone data gathering and capability building. Hydrographic Expertise is a part of UKHO, which for more than 200 years has led the world in the provision of navigational charts and publi-cations essential for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)

UKHO Shares Expertise at Oi

Stand 114, www.ukho.gov.ukThe Hydrographic Expertise brochure.

RBR are introducing their control and interface system for data buoys and other system platforms. It can be configured by the user to interface with most readily available sensors. The system inherently recognises RBR’s own instruments but is also user-configurable to handle many other sensors. Both digital and analogue outputs can be accommodated. The RBR data controller provides a means of remote monitoring and

facilitates central control and co-ordination of 20 or more channels of instrumentation, sensors & telemetry through expansion modules. Power management & telemetry options are also incorporated.

RBR DBC II Data Controller

Stand 914,www.rbr-global.com

Stand 400 , www.ixsea.com

You want to knowwhat’s down below?Don’t rely on myths, take our word for it...

Noordhoek Survey provides survey and positioning services for engineering purposes, construction support and inspection. Noordhoek Survey’s activities concentrate mainly in the oil- and gas industry, the power and telecom cable market, offshore wind farms, dredging and salvage activities. In addition Noordhoek provides diving and ROV services, custom-made underwater systems and ROV tooling. As such Noordhoek Survey is both highly specialised while at the same time offering a wide range of services to provide the optimum solution. With the recent addition of two FOCUS-2 ROTV systems to its expanding fleet of underwater survey vehicles Noordhoek Survey has firmly established itself as a key player in the survey industry. Noordhoek Survey benefits from the fact that they are part of a family-owned business. As such they do not have to please shareholders every 3 months. The company takes a long-term view that provides an excellent blend of support and autonomy. In turn, Noordhoek Survey can then transfer these standards to their clients, giving them an unrivalled level of service. Noord-hoek Survey has built a reputation of being a trustworthy company and a reliable partner with expert in-house knowledge on the complex subject of underwater survey. Take our word for it: myths are good for adventure stories, not for business.

www.noordhoek.netP.O. Box 200, 4300 AE Zierikzee, Netherlands, Tel. +31(0)111 456 000, Fax +31 (0)111 456 001, info@noordhoek.net

Visit us

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Vessels at Oceanology in 2008

FS LAPLACE

HMS LEDBURY

RS ALLIANCE

YANTLET

WESSEX EXPLORER

ALERT

COASTAL DIGGER

During Oi08, you will find information about the vessels thats contribute to the

event. As they contribute through their oceonographic duties to the profession!

The NATO Research Vessel Alliance, designed specially for underwater acoustic research, is capable of operating in all the oceans of strategic importance to NATO nations. It is equipped with extensive and sophisticated navigation, communi-cations and computer equipment, winches, cranes, loading frames and other deck machinery for the deployment, towing and recovery of a variety of sensor arrays and oceanographic instrumentation in all sea conditions.

ALLIANCE has 400 m² of open deck working area

as well as 370 m² of enclosed laboratory spaces. There is an additional 500 m³ of scientific storage. The vessel is equipped with an extensive suite of winches and other deck handling gear for deploying and towing systems and instrumentation needed for acoustic and oceanographic research. A Windows-based integrated navigation system, which utilises DGPS, includes the ARCS (electronic chart system) and ensures that the ship’s position is logged with great precision to provide precise time tagged navigation strings to other fixed vessel sensors such as the Swathe Mapping System and the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler.

Length overall: 93.00mBreath: 15.20mDraught: 5.25mSpeed: 16.3kts

RV Alliance

FS LaplaceFS Laplace is a French Navy survey vessel used for hydrography on the continental shelf. The 35 crew members include 3 officers and 10 survey specialists of the French Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine = SHOM).In addition to the mounted survey equipment, Laplace carries two motorboats capable of performing hydrographic surveys up to 50 metres in depth. Each of these motorboats is equipped with a multibeam echo-sounder EM3002 from SIMRAD, a side scan-sonar and a magnetometer. Data is pre-processed on board using CARIS software.Since the beginning of this year, Laplace has been involved in coastal surveys near Arcachon on the south-west French Atlantic coast. The goal is to study the evolution of submarine sand waves during the winter. During the second half of the year, Laplace will conduct hydrographic surveys on the north coast of Britanny where current nautical charts are produced from data obtained in the XIXth century.

In 2007, the vessel spent 3 months surveying near Douala in Cameroun to improve the safety of navigation in the area. This is a part of a cooperative program valid for a number of years between African countries and European hydrographic services coordinated by the International Hydrographic Organisation.

Length: 60mCruise speed: 12ktsRegular Equipment: Kongsberg Simrad EM1002, PosMV Positioning, Applied Micro System hull celerimeter. Edgetech 4300 side-scan sonar

THV AlertTrinity House’s Rapid Intervention Vessel Alert has been designed with buoy handling, wreck marking, towing and side-scan sonar and multi-beam surveying in mind. Apart from her daily duties serving buoys, she is ready to respond rapidly to any maritime accident at the southeast coast. Her large working deck allows for research, deployment of scientific equipment and sampling. Alert is available for use by third parties’ projects.

Length Overall: 39.3mDraught: 2.5mService Speed: 15.0knRegular equipment: Kongsberg Simrad EM3002D multi-beam, Kongsberg Simrad EA400 38 single-beam, PosMV, GeoAcoustics side-scan sonar, Kongsberg SV Plus Sound Velocity and Profiling Probe, Kongsberg TD304 Tide Gauge System.

Stand 223 (N.U.R.C.)

You want to knowwhat’s down below?Don’t rely on myths, take our word for it...

Noordhoek Survey provides survey and positioning services for engineering purposes, construction support and inspection. Noordhoek Survey’s activities concentrate mainly in the oil- and gas industry, the power and telecom cable market, offshore wind farms, dredging and salvage activities. In addition Noordhoek provides diving and ROV services, custom-made underwater systems and ROV tooling. As such Noordhoek Survey is both highly specialised while at the same time offering a wide range of services to provide the optimum solution. With the recent addition of two FOCUS-2 ROTV systems to its expanding fleet of underwater survey vehicles Noordhoek Survey has firmly established itself as a key player in the survey industry. Noordhoek Survey benefits from the fact that they are part of a family-owned business. As such they do not have to please shareholders every 3 months. The company takes a long-term view that provides an excellent blend of support and autonomy. In turn, Noordhoek Survey can then transfer these standards to their clients, giving them an unrivalled level of service. Noord-hoek Survey has built a reputation of being a trustworthy company and a reliable partner with expert in-house knowledge on the complex subject of underwater survey. Take our word for it: myths are good for adventure stories, not for business.

www.noordhoek.netP.O. Box 200, 4300 AE Zierikzee, Netherlands, Tel. +31(0)111 456 000, Fax +31 (0)111 456 001, info@noordhoek.net

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Getting to the bottom of things.

www.seabed.eu support@seabed.nl

Seabed is pleased to invite you to visit our stand atOceanology International. (No. 855)

Monitoring

Positioning

Sub-bottom sampling

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on Sustainability and Ocean Resources in the 21st Century

contaminants, but there is the increased risk of shipping accidents which also cause pollution.

There are several ways to make regulations for environmental security e.g. via the Arctic

Council or via the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC). The latter began with the aim of the benefit of mankind from the resources in and under the ocean. An inter-nationally agreed approach to have a Polar Ocean protocol under the LOSC, supplemented by strengthened mechanisms for the Arctic within the wide range of multilateral environ-mental agreements, is a viable possibility. I would also like to stress that the EU and

especially its Arctic member states have an extra duty of care:

to raise awareness and to gain support in international settings. Let me state that the Arctic provides the industrialized world

with a critical chance of wise stewardship of the planet’s natural

resources. The challenge is not to let the opportunity slip away.

In this morning’s session, you concluded that legislation can work. Are there any problems with enforcement of legislation?

The technology exists. In the fishing industry for example, satellite tracking of vessels can detect if a vessel is where it should not be, is illegally dumping something or is even unloading ballast! By publicly humiliating countries or organisations not following legislation, we become more effective at enforcing it. Europe is a powerful trading block, enabling her to achieve regulations (and enforcement thereof) faster

than via global organizations.

Do you agree the oceans are understudied?

Yes, oceans are understudied, but we have enough information to realise we have to act now. More funding is required e.g. for research into the conse-quences of sea-level rise and the most cost-effective ways to deal with it. Compare the vast resources spent on protecting oil in Iraq: one month of what has been spent in Iraq is equivalent to what is spent on environmental monitoring in an entire year.

How are we to meet future demands for energy?

Again, a shifting of spending is required. It is not well known, but all the conventional energy indus-tries – oil, gas, nuclear – are heavily subsidised. It was said this morning that most of the technology proposed for wave and tidal power is not commer-cially viable. Perhaps if the renewables industries received the same amount in subsidies as the others, these technologies would become available sooner. Currently, the oil/gas/nuclear industries receive £35 million in subsidies per year, compared to only £5 million for renewables.

In your keynote speech you mentioned the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS). Can you tell our readers a bit more about that?

Access to information empowers everyone: individuals, agencies and government.

Note from the editor:(Professor McGlade becomes so enthusiastic about the enabling of the use of all available data for e.g. individuals as well as private companies and governments that we invited her to submit an article on the marine part of SEIS, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Hydro international.)

Professor Jacqueline McGlade

You mentioned that claims and usage of EEZs in the Arctic by the few neighbouring nations will be against the benefit of mankind, as the effects of it will concern our whole planet. Can you tell us something about that and how it can be achieved?

The effects of global warming make the Arctic accessible for shipping and offshore operations. Apart from the pollution by air from heavy metals and organic chemicals, this accessibility is a danger to the environmental security of the Arctic. The increase in marine traffic for the transport of goods via the Northern Sea Route or the North West Passage, from tourist cruise-ships and from offshore operations will not only bring exhaust

Show Daily was lucky to have an interview with Professor Jacqueline McGlade,

executive director of the European Environment Agency.

The world at your finger tipsone decimeter at a time

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Kongsberg Maritime show their new compact multi-standard HDTV component colour zoom camera. The oe14-502A underwater HDTV camera is smaller in size than other ROV inspection cameras and benefits from multi-standard video capability, enabling users to quickly and easily swap between settings, according to the requirements of the ROV inspection task and the area the work is being carried out.

Switching between video output standards on the oe14-502A can be done with the new remote control or via the straightforward software GUI. This enables users to switch from standard composite video to 1080i or 720p HD video as and when the work

demands. The oe14-502A can also be easily set to PAL or NTSC or in the case of HD, from 50 to 60 Hz, which means the same camera can be used anywhere in the world.

The Kongsberg Maritime IR remote control also allows straightforward camera control set-up, which can be through single wire (tri-state), two wire (bi-polar), USB and RS485. RS232 is also available as a factory set option. Further flexibility and value comes from the inclusive Kongsberg Maritime GUI, which provides control functionality via the digital link.

C-Nav updates C-Navigator display unitThe C-Nav GPS Division of C & C Technologies has updated the popular C-NaviGator, a GNSS Control and Display unit. The updates include a new high-performance, touch screen version featuring a 10.4 inch easy-to-read colour LCD flat panel display.

This new touch screen panel PC, combined with C-NaviGator’s intuitive and easy-to-use interface, provides trouble-free operation. Software upgrades are handled via a

simple interface utilising an included C-Nav USB Thumb drive. On screen help is also available and is updated automatically with the software.

The system can be used to configure C-Nav GNSS receivers and to monitor real-time quality, performance, and accuracy information. The integrated 1 GHz fanless Pentium class processor runs Linux and several I/O connectors. This enables the operator to monitor more than one GNSS receiver and still output data

to external devices with different data requirements.

This system is packed into an attractive 34 by 26 by 8 centimetres package weighing only 4.5kg. The system operates on 12VDc, and provides a variety of mounting options to suit most customer’s needs.

Stand: 733,www.CnavGPS.com

Multi-Standard Underwater HD Camera

Stand: 550,www.km.kongsberg.com

During the first two weeks of May 2008, David Goldsmith (Oceanographer with RS Aqua Ltd) and his brother Chris will be cycling from Lands End to John O’Groat’s a distance of just under 1,000 miles (1600 km). The ride is in aid of Epilepsy Bereaved (www.sudep.org), a charity that is supported by Oi08 exhibitors RS Aqua Ltd and, in parti-cular, by proprietors Roger and Sandie Scrivens following the death of their 11

year old daughter Becky in May 2004. David & Chris aim to complete the ride in 15 days, averaging approxi-mately 70 miles (110 kms) per day. They will be cycling unsupported, staying with friends, family and at B&B’s along the way. Corporate sponsorship is most welcome and rewarded via the display of your company logo on the website (and the great feeling of helping a very worthy cause). David and Chris are training hard and are desperately keen to raise as much funding as possible for this small but very active charity.

Their commitment is total!David Goldsmith is happy to talk about this charity tour. During the Oi08 show, anyone who donates via the RS Aqua booth can participate in a lucky draw to win a case of wine.

Goldsmiths Bike Britain for Charity

Stand 520, www.goldsmithsbikebritain.co.uk

David and Chris Goldmith ready for their Charity tour.

Bo Groenen,Technical Engineer Geo-Resources

Consulting

‘ We need challenges’

Mat Holehouse,Recruitment specialist Dave Oliver Hydrographic Service

‘ There’s a big skill shortage. We need to have both the technology and the people!’

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Stand 1120 ,www.generalacoustics.com

The General Acoustics GmbH (Germany) has appointed Tom Opishinski of Interactive Oceano-graphics from East Greenwich (RI, USA) as their new distributor for the Eastern United States. John Tamplin of Seafloor Systems Inc.from Sacra-mento (CA, USA) will continue to represent the company in states west of the Mississippi River.

All three parties collaborate closely together to offer comprehensive support for the US market. Well known General Acoustics products include the calibration and maintenance-free tide and wave gauge LOG_aLevel, the laboratory wave measuring systems of the UltraLab series and the new SUBPRO 1210 Sub Bottom Profiler.

General Acous-tics Expands in the USA

AAE’s Smart Beacon Series LaunchApplied Acoustic Engineering is launching its new range, the 1000 Series. It is a more electronically sophisticated product with improved reliability related to the 900 Series it succeeds. According to technical manager Neil MacDonald, the device has been engineered to make the new product simpler to use. The Channel Selector switches have been replaced by a digital control from an external Smart Switch. This palm-sized Smart Switch, with direct connection to the beacon, can perform a multitude of tasks in addition to transponder configuration. These include battery diagnostics, trickle charge/fast charge monitoring & control, and depth telemetry selection. The small device

provides a smooth and efficient set-up and provides valuable operational information on the clear LCD screen. The 1000 Series can also be configured from a PC. The addition of a standard 5-

pin bulkhead connector, offering pin-for-pin compati-bility, improves the versatility and worldwide appeal of the product.

Stand 622 , www.appliedacoustics.com

Applied Acoustics has the new 1000 Series on the stand.

Mobile environmental flow-through systemCONTROS Systems & Solutions GmbH is launching “OceanPack+”, a new mobile environmental flow-through system. The device focuses on water surface measurements and market release follows extensive proving trials. This portable and modularly expan-dable system is ideal for either permanent shipborne installation or can easily be hand-carried for temporary applications. The initial version of OceanPack+ uses a combined sensing module integrating the well known HydroC CO2 and methane optical gas sensors.

OceanPack+ offers 24 bit analogue data acquisition, multiple serial interfaces and digital control lines, enabling users to integrate and connect existing sensors, analyzers or samplers. The instrument is also available with a graphic display, GPS position control, PLC control and alarm functions as well as data telemetry.

Stand 520, www.contros.eu

Ocean Pack 1000+

Oceanology exhibitors RS Aqua Ltd, announce the award of a contract from CEFAS for the supply of 2 PhytoFlash active fluor-ometers. PhytoFlash is manufactured by Turner Designs, (CA, USA) for whom RS Aqua act as UK representatives. The contract award follows trials aboard a CEFAS coastal Smart Buoy and aboard one of the research vessels.PhytoFlash is the first solid state in-situ variable fluores-cence system that will detect the quantum efficiency of

phytoplankton in both oligotrophic and mesotrophic environments. Unlike other active fluorometers, researchers can determine real-time in situ physiological parameters of phytoplankton in low chlorophyll systems at a fraction of the cost. PhytoFlash’s increased sensitivity allows users to obtain physiological parameters in coastal, open ocean and fresh-water environments.

Exhibitors secure PhytoFlash order from CEFAS

PhytoFlash Stand 520, information can be obtained from product expert David Goldsmith at :d.goldsmith@rsaqua.co.ukwww.rsaqua.co.uk

Herlinde Snauwaert,

Environmental Engineer Jan de Nul

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developers of the

products about

technical aspects

that you want as a

user’

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QTC MULTIVIEW Version 4.00Quester Tangentis launching QTC MULTIVIEW Version 4.00. The software for automated seabed classifi-cation processing of multibeam sonar data reaches a new level of maturity with significant new features. CompEX enables the export of backscatter data that has been fully compensated for angles and range using Quester Tangent’s patented approach. These compensated data can then be used for the construction of high quality mosaics, free of survey artifacts.Quester Tangent’s Automated Cluster Engine (ACE) has seen significant improvement and upgrades. QTC MULTIVIEW version 4.00 is the first software release to incorporate the new version of this processing tool. The ACE trackplot features a new 3-D display to better visualise results.

Field-swappable Sound Velocity Sensor

Perspective Product Line

Triton Imaging has reached the milestone of 25 years of business, and are introducing a brand new line of

products under the Triton Perspective architecture.

This architecture capitalises on a wide array of advanced software technologies including: multi-core parallel processing, indexed cache files, workflow-oriented wizards, and multi-resolution image

management to deliver ease of use, accuracy, quality, and versatility to the end-user. New Triton Perspective

products include: Triton MosaicOne - sidescan and backscatter mosaicing package; Triton PerspectiveMap - map-based data fusion engine; Triton HarborSuitePD- underwater port security system; Triton SeaClass – sidescan image segmentation; Triton PipeTrack – pipeline tracking and free-span detection; and an emergent collection of tools for mine counter-measures, hydrography, habitat mapping, marine archaeology, and commercial survey markets.

Applied Microsystems (AML) announces the launch of SV-Xchange - the world’s only exchangeable, field-swappable sound velocity sensor. Any SV-Xchange sensor can be connected to any Xchange enabled instrument without compromising calibration accuracy.At time of recalibration, spare calibrated sensors can be shipped to the instrument, allowing the

instrument to stay in the field. Recali-brated sensors can be scheduled for just-in-time delivery, eliminating the headache of managing calibration expiry dates. The small sensors – not heavy instruments – can travel to and from the factory, thus saving shipping costs and brokerage fees. Damaged or

out-of-calibration sensors can be swapped for field-ready spares on board the survey vessel.Oceanology International 2008 will be the public launch of this exciting new product and Applied Microsystems invites you to stop by Booth 604 to view an SV-Xchange demonstration.

3Dive introduces a fully integrated high-definition recording system with overlay for ROV subsea inspections, pipeline surveys and scientific work which can give up to 6 times more detail compared to standard PAL/NTSC camera systems.

The 3Dive HD-DVR system is a 19” rack mount solution with continuous recording to multiple external hard-disk drives, offering client playback with or without the overlay information on most computers or laptops without the need for any special codec being

installed. The full 1080i HD recording is suitable for large screen LCD or plasma display boardroom presentations.

Stand 604, www.appliedmicrosystems.com/svxchange

Broadband MBESR2Sonic LLC introduces their next generation SONIC 2024 Broadband Multibeam Echo-sounder system at Oceanology 2008 in London. The

Sonic 2024 represents the latest in innovation and advanced electronics. With the launch of the Sonic 2024 at Oceanology 2008, R2Sonic sets out to redefine the multibeam market with unparallel performance and value to the customer.

Stand 702 , www.r2sonic.com

Stands 441, 410, www.3dive.com

Integrated recording system

R2Sonic launches a broadband multi-beam system.

Attendance figures from Day 1 at Oceanology International 2008 have been extremely encouraging. As of the late afternoon yesterday, a total of 3,738 attendees had passed through the doors. It was also very positive to note that a total of 56% of the visitors were from outside the United Kingdom. Full details and statistics from the show will be available after the event concludes on Thursday.

Oi08: Well Attended

HarborSuite PD Display of cruise ship berth port Los Angeles

Stand 1320, www.tritonimaginginc.com

Stand 531www.questertangent.com