HydroSurv and Sonardyne to advance intelligent robotics-based seabed-to-shore data acquisition operations
Uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) designer, builder and operator HydroSurv Unmanned Survey is joining forces with global marine technology specialist Sonardyne to develop and demonstrate transformative seabed-to-shore sensing and data acquisition technologies for offshore operations. Through a collaborative project, part-funded by Innovate UK through its Robotics for a Safer World: extension project, HydroSurv’s REAV-40 USV will be paired with intelligent seafloor and vessel-mounted instruments from Sonardyne. These will then be used in combination with internet-based cloud- services to provide an end-to-end seabed-data-to-shore service initially targeted towards the offshore wind industry.
Key elements of the project include a self-transiting USV, acoustic positioning of and data harvesting from seabed instruments, real-time gathering of geo-referenced current profile data and live relay of information to operatives onshore through secure cloud-based systems. The project will also demonstrate the ability to overcome potential navigational limitations working in and around wind farms.
The key instrument package includes Sonardyne’s Mini-Ranger 2 Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) acoustic positioning system and its SPRINT-Nav hybrid acoustic-INS navigation instrument, which provides USV platforms with navigational redundancy both for when GNSS is compromised and where DVL bottom lock is out of range. Used in combination with Sonardyne’s seafloor sensors and access to cloud-based services, this package provides an integrated suite of capabilities to maximise the use of USVs for intelligent data harvesting operations in remote offshore environments.
For more information visit: www.sonardyne.com or www.hydro-surv.com
aae technologies are recruiting a Technical Sales Co-ordinator
aae technologies is a globally respected, independent manufacturer of high value marine related electronic-acoustic products that include underwater positioning and tracking systems, and a market leading range of subsea geological survey equipment. Established for more than 30 years, our award-winning company has an international client base spread across many ocean related industry sectors, and is supported by a global distributor network with locations on every continent.
To further expand recent growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Sales Co-ordinator to join our growing and dynamic team. This role requires a candidate who is looking to progress their career in a diverse role that will be integral to our ambitious growth plans, with the opportunity to travel domestically and overseas to support marketing campaigns and trade shows.
Job Title:
Technical Sales Co-ordinator
Based:
aae technologies, Great Yarmouth, UK
Employment Type:
Permanent, Full Time
Main Responsibilities:
Support the aae technologies Sales and Business Development team and its customers across all aspects of the sales cycle including requests for quotations, tender preparation, order processing, after-sales support and customer service across all aae technologies group business units.
Duties:
- Support all elements of the sales cycle including;
- Developing and preparing sales proposals including tender preparation
- Process and actively manage sales orders
- Providing customers with updated information and answering enquiries
- Co-ordinating with other departments in the support of sales proposals, providing superior customer service
- Maintaining CRM system to ensure its accuracy
- Assisting with inbound phone calls as reasonably required
- Making outbound calls and following up with clients to meet their needs
- Directing leads, RFI’s, RFQ’s etc. to appropriate sales person (where applicable)
- Assist with the planning and implementation of marketing activities - Develop relationships with potential clients
- Maintain relationships with existing clients
- Support customer visits where necessary
- Attend and participate, when required in trade shows, exhibitions and industry forums
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures, business ethics and values
- Perform any other duties as reasonably directed
The Candidate:
- Previous experience within a technical sales role
- An enthusiasm for providing the highest quality customer service
- Exemplary communication skills, both written and verbal
- Competent with MS Office
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Relevant experience within the industry
- CRM experience
Minimum Position Requirements:
- 2 years customer service/ sales experience within an engineering technical field
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- UK Driving Licence
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
To apply please visit: www.aaetechnologiesgroup.com/careers
New Nekton Podcast - Catch Our Drift
‘CATCH OUR DRIFT’ is a fortnightly podcast co-hosted by marine biologist Dr Helen Scales and submersible pilot and Nekton Mission Director, Oliver Steeds. It is entertaining and inspiring bringing a wide range of listeners to all that is exciting, uplifting, dramatic and concerning in the ocean. It provides news and views to engage and inform a wide audience of marine scientists, ocean experts and ocean novices during 2021, the Ocean Super-Year.
Catch Our Drift provides an essential and critically needed source of knowledge, analysis and opinion on ocean topics and events – to both the ocean community but also a wider, more general audience. To do this we make the ocean more relevant, accessible and exciting. We engage both the very best in ocean policy makers, scientists and conservationists as well as informed ocean activists from outside the ocean space (actors, writers, musicians, athletes etc) to provide inspiration and interest to engage a wider audience base.
Science is communicated clearly and in a straightforward way. Segments combine insights on the latest news and views, lighter, unusual ocean stories and interviews with ocean leaders and experts invited specifically to present inspiring solutions. Finally, we have contributions from well-known ocean heroes who bring their own stories of hope, adventure and adversity. Episodes end with a call to action so the listener can make a difference in their own day to day life.
The podcast is not a vehicle for campaigning or advocacy. It is science and evidenced-based, journalistic in style, content and ethics. However, a key aspect of the content will be to highlight the work of campaigns being run by NGOs and where appropriate will help amplify their message. These will be both grass-roots and international in scope and combine the most pressing and relevant topics of the week or as they relate to specific events and policy decisions.
Content:
Each episode is loosely based around a theme. Themes include fashion, history, sport, health, music, sound, technology, space etc. These themes run, to a greater or lesser degree, throughout each of our segments and give cohesion to each episode.
Confirmed Contributors:
Actor Robert Sheehan from The Umbrella Academy and Misfits, F1 Champion Nico Rosberg, Artist Joan Jonas, Presenter and Naturalist Steve Backshall, Presenter Jason Fox, Astronaut and Aquanaut Kathy Sullivan (who is also part of Biden’s transition team), World freediving champion Alenka Artnik, Shark expert David Schiffman, Technical Diver and subject of Netflix documentary “The Last Breath” Chris Lemon, NYT journalist and author of “The Outlaw Ocean” Ian Urbina, F1 racing champion Nico Rosberg, and many more…
For more information visit: www.catchourdrift.org
Blue Ocean Seismic Services are recruiting a Mechanical Engineer
Working in the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Work Stream, within a multidisciplinary technology team, this role is suitable for an innovative mechanical marine engineer with experience in designing underwater vehicles and with an interest in challenging the conventional and seeing design concepts through to a final product.
The role is primarily focused on the design and optimisation of sub systems for a bespoke UUV given specified system constraints, with some aspects of surface vessel design, launch and evaluation.
Position type:
Full-time
Reporting to:
UUV Work Stream Lead
Travel required:
<15%
Location:
Farnborough area, UK
Salary:
Competitive
Blue Ocean Seismic Services (BOSS) background:
BOSS is an innovative tech start up with strong shareholders including BP. Our vision is to disrupt the Marine Seismic industry through the development of a large-scale autonomous ocean bottom seismic data acquisition system, resulting in a step change reduction in the cost, time and HSSE risks required to acquire high quality OBS data. We help our clients to reduce their carbon emissions and their carbon footprint.
BOSS is developing a revolutionary, integrated seismic acquisition system based around long endurance, self-repositioning robotic ocean bottom nodes.
These nodes are capable of multiple autonomous re-positions to allow rolling of the receiver array without having to recover and redeploy nodes. This, in combination with automated handling systems, rapid deployment/recovery and intelligent system control, allows for optimisation of seismic acquisition survey operations to minimise duration and cost, and removes the requirement for ROV support.
Required Experience & Qualifications:
- Engineer degree qualified in one of the following disciplines: Naval Architect, Structural or Mechanical Engineering with minimum 5 years of experience.
- Relevant engineering track record for subsea mechanical design.
- Extensive experience with 3D modelling software (PTC Creo preferred or similar) to create complex part assembly models.
- The ability to work in the UK.
Desirable Qualifications & Experience
- Linear/non-linear structural analysis experience with FEA software.
- Technical understanding of subsea vehicle motion and fluid dynamics loading for mechanical design tasks.
- Good working knowledge of different engineering materials and corrosion management in a marine environment.
General responsibilities:
- Development of detailed subsystems and parts to meet required specified performance criteria.
- Detailed evaluation of design concepts through computational analysis and physical model testing.
- Production of design submittal documentation and associated reports when required.
- Production of detailed design drawings & specifications.
- Production of verified design for prototyping and manufacture
To apply, please send CV and cover letter to [email protected] or visit www.blueoceanseismic.com/jobs/mechanical-engineer
Impact Subsea are recruiting a Production Technician
Impact Subsea have an exciting role available for a Production Technician to join their team!
Based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, UK, this role involves applying your technical knowledge within the production team in the build of Impact Subsea sensors and systems.
For full details of this role and the job description, please see: https://www.impactsubsea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Production-Technician-Job-Description-Rev-1.pdf
For more information visit https://www.impactsubsea.co.uk/careers.
All usual Impact Subsea benefits (outlined on website) are offered. Compensation commensurate with experience.
To apply, please provide a covering letter and your CV to [email protected] together with salary expectations.
Impact Subsea Distribution Agreement with Seatronics
Impact Subsea is delighted to announce the appointment of Seatronics Ltd as a distributor of Impact Subsea underwater sensor solutions within the Middle East.
Seatronics, an Acteon company, are a global leader in the rental and sale of marine electronics equipment and subsea solutions. The company supplies the construction, defence, dredging, IMR and renewables sectors.
Akram Ali, Regional Manager - Middle East, Seatronics commented “Impact Subsea are a manufacturer we know well, their product line is known for its quality and reliability and we look forward to bringing these options to our local client base.”
Ben Grant, Managing Director, Impact Subsea further commented “We have worked with Seatronics for many years and are delighted to strengthen this working relationship with this appointment. Seatronics are well known for their integrity, knowledge and technical capability. These characteristics will enable excellent support to be provided to the Impact Subsea user base within the Middle East”.
Impact Subsea’s distributor base consists of seventeen companies worldwide. Each distributor provides Impact Subsea sales and technical support to their regions. Further growth of the Impact Subsea distributor network is planned in 2021 to ensure the highest levels of support are available for Impact Subsea’s growing user base.
Impact Subsea are based in Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom where they design and manufacture a range of sensors for underwater ROV & AUV applications. The company’s sensor offerings include Sonar, Altimeter, Depth, Attitude & Heading Reference together with Flooded Member Detection systems.
For further information regarding Impact Subsea please visit www.impactsubsea.co.uk
For further information regarding Seatronics please visit www.seatronics-group.com
MacArtney Develops Advanced Telemetry System for Jasco Underwater Listening Stations
Years of development culminated in a MacArtney telemetry concept measuring and transmitting individual noise profiles for complex acoustic data tracking to help preserve and recover one of Canada's most iconic species - the Southern Resident Killer Whale.
Under the Canadian Species at Risk Act, the Southern Resident Killer Whale was recently concluded to be facing an approaching threat to survival and recovery. At Boundary Pass in the Salish Sea, an enhanced monitoring project provides an underwater sound picture of the Southern Resident Killer Whale's habitat, consequently rendering the most effective noise reduction measures.
The Jasco Underwater Listening Stations (ULS), commissioned by Transport Canada under the federal government's five-year Whales Initiative, will passively track endangered whales and thousands of commercial vessels frequenting British Columbia's southern ports on an annual basis.
On the system solution and scope of supply for the Jasco Applied Sciences ULS, Andrew Palmer – General Manager at MacArtney Canada Ltd. - comments:
"MacArtney and Jasco have been working on the concept of the ULS for several years. The challenge was to develop a telemetry system that would not interfere with the acoustic data gathered by the Jasco hydrophone arrays. The scope of this project was one of the larger, if not the largest, development we've ever undertaken at MacArtney Canada Ltd., and I could not be more pleased with what we've accomplished."
Scope of supply
The project scope includes two Jasco Underwater Listening Stations, each comprising two MacArtney Mini-T multiplexer systems and one MacArtney LUXUS HD camera.
The MacArtney Mini-T multiplexers enable the Jasco ULS systems to provide real-time communications to a shore via a subsea fibre optic cable. The sensor suite aboard each ULS consists of various sensors, including:
- An array of hydrophones
- High definition video camera
- LED light
- Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP)
- Conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor (CTD)
MacArtney's line of EMO multiplexers enables multiple data streams and control signals to be transmitted simultaneously through a single optical fibre. This allows for real-time data transfer over vast distances through a smaller cable with minimal conductors. On the opposite end of the system, a de-multiplexer converts the data back into the original formats where it may be accessed via an interface from the rack-mounted console.
The data collected by the ULS systems will be used to create individual vessel noise profiles, to detect and track whales, and to monitor noise levels in the Boundary Pass for many years to come.
For more information visit: www.macartney.com
Fugro launches MASSPeople international working group for remote and autonomous training standards
In partnership with SeaBot XR, a leading agency for next-generation cutting-edge learning products and services, and the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Fugro has launched MASSPeople, the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) International Training Standards Working Group. The group consists of representatives from European and international maritime authorities who will collaborate to develop world-class training and competency standards for remote and autonomous vessels.
The introduction of remote and autonomous technology has brought new ways of working to the maritime sector, and the aim of MASSPeople is to explore the human dimension of remote and autonomously enabled marine surface vessels. Fugro and SeaBot XR have already been working together since 2019 to develop new standards and a training framework through which Fugro's employees can be upskilled in the operation of remote and autonomous vessels, and the new working group will continue these initiatives. MASSPeople will provide recommendations on new competency standards for inclusion into the International Convention of Standards on Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW); the group will also propose specialisms, training structures and qualification requirements for remote and autonomous operators. By focusing on the mariners who operate this new technology, the group aims to ensure that their skills can evolve effectively and to high industry safety standards.
Remko Kloos, Fugro’s Global Director for Fleet Services, said: "By establishing MASSPeople, we are preparing for the future and the transition to remote and autonomous technology, which is already changing the way our industry operates. This new technology contributes to Fugro’s purpose of creating a safe and liveable world, but it is ultimately our people who make change happen and MASSPeople will ensure they are fully trained and supported in their important mission.“
For more information visit: www.fugro.com
MMT Awarded Three-year Contract, with two one-year options, for Nord Stream AG
MMT Sweden today announced the award of a major3 three-year contract, with two one-year options, for Nord Stream AG. The yearly inspections, to be executed through our cooperation with Reach Subsea, include visual and acoustic survey services critical for the pipeline integrity assessments, covering inspection of the European sections of both lines of the Nord Stream Pipeline System running from Russia to Germany.
This award follows on from the original contract awarded in 2017. One of the key advantages from this continued collaboration is the development resulting from the experiences gained during the last four years. This allows for significantly reduced costs and increased efficiency by high-speed survey operations and automated data processing workflows.
Project Management, engineering, remote and post-processing will be performed from MMT Sweden’s office in Gothenburg, Sweden. Offshore operations will occur in Q1-Q2 2021.
Per-Olof Sverlinger, CEO of MMT Sweden said: "After four years of successful inspections of the Nord Stream Pipelines, we are very proud to again be the chosen contractor and continue to bring our technology to the Baltic Sea, increasing the efficiency and cost reductions for our clients. In cooperation with our partner Reach Subsea, we will continue to support Nord Stream in their safe and environmentally friendly energy transport to Europe.”
1 MMT defines a sizeable contract as being between EUR 2 million and EUR 5 million.
2 MMT defines a substantial contract as being between EUR 5 million and EUR 10 million.
3 MMT defines a major contract as being above EUR 10 million.
For more information visit: www.mmt.se
Canada's Ocean Supercluster awards collaboration between RBR, DFO, and Dalhousie
RBR Ltd., an Ottawa based ocean technology company focused on the development of world-class oceanographic instrumentation, is pleased to announce significant funding from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster’s Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program (AOSP) for a new project that will develop integrated ocean sensors for autonomous ocean platforms in collaboration with Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and Dalhousie University’s Department of Oceanography (DAL).
The Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors for Autonomous Platforms Project focuses on developing new sensor technologies aimed initially at the Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo program with the objectives of improving sensor stability and reducing power requirements and cost per profile. In this AOSP project, RBR will undertake the technology development and productization of the new BGC sensors while collaborators at DFO and DAL will provide scientific and technical resources for the testing, operation, and subsequent data analysis of BGC sensors in the lab and through ocean deployments.
“The OSC funding enables a leap forwards in our capabilities and reduces the timeline to bring these exciting new sensors to market” stated Greg Johnson, President of RBR Ltd.
“The addition of biogeochemical sensors to Argo floats is an unprecedented opportunity to address pressing questions about changing ocean ecosystems and global climate that are otherwise intractable. This will be a game changer for ocean biogeochemical observation and prediction” stated Katja Fennel, Professor, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University.
“Fisheries and Ocean Canada is a strong supporter of the Argo Program, and has committed to advancing the effort to integrate biogeochemical sensors into the global fleet. The development of new BGC sensors by RBR will provide benefits to all countries that contribute to Argo,” stated Blair Greenan, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
The outcome of the RBR led Supercluster project will significantly improve the scope of autonomous ocean platforms and their effectiveness in collecting valuable ocean data used by ocean researchers as well as policymakers worldwide.
See the full Project award announcement from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster here: http://bit.ly/2LYyZz0