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Thursday, 14 November 2019

Survey vessel

A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping. It is a type of research vessel.

Role

The task of survey vessels is to map the bottom, benthic zone, full water column, and surface for the purpose of:

hydrography

general oceanography

marine habitats

salvage

dredging

marine archaeology

Survey equipment

Typically, modern survey vessels are equipped with one or more of the following equipment:

GPS positioning and logging

subsurface profiler

grab sampler

bottom coring device

DCHP

CTD

Inertial Measurement Unit

Latest News for: Survey ship

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‘Tiger Triumph’ off to a grand start

The Hindu 15 Nov 2019

... simulate moving a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief force from ship to shore ... INS Airavat, a landing ship tank, including its integral landing crafts and helicopters and hydrographic survey ship INS Sandhayak, operating as a hospital ship are participating in the exercise....

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Jobs at risk as China's services sector feels heat of trade war

The Times of India 14 Nov 2019

The worries are palpable as services firms have been the shock absorber in China's labour market, creating more new jobs to offset rising factory layoffs, but increases in US tariffs are starting to take a toll on logistics, shipping, transport and storage firms....

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Jobs at risk as China’s services sector feels heat of trade war

Deccan Chronicle 14 Nov 2019

tariffs are starting take a toll on logistics, shipping, transport and storage firms. China’s survey-based urban jobless rate climbed to 5.1 per cent in October from 4.9 per cet in April 2018, when the United States and China began imposing tit-for-tat import tariffs, official data showed....

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Ports survey shows importance of spending on climate-resistant infrastructure

Splash24/7 13 Nov 2019

The survey has been organised by the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) on behalf of the partners of the Navigating a Changing Climate (NaCC) initiative ... The survey also considers wider issues, for example the role of warning systems and contingency plans. Jan Brooke, lead coordinator of the survey, commented ....

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Pence to visit Wisconsin, Indiana next week

Winona Daily News 13 Nov 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is planning to visit Wisconsin and his home state of Indiana next week ... 20 ... Stay logged in to skip the surveys ... Stay logged in to skip the surveys ... Pence did come to Wisconsin later that day for a stop at shipping and packaging materials distributor Uline in Pleasant Prairie ... ....

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Vessel shortage forces Canada to scrap key climate change research mission

CBC 13 Nov 2019

Fisheries and Oceans Canada was forced this fall to cancel a core oceanographic survey used to monitor climate change because it could not find a ship capable of handling ocean conditions in the North Atlantic ... ....

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Vietnam Advances Plan to Protect Disputed Maritime Claims with Stronger Fishing Fleet

Voa News 13 Nov 2019

Five years later, Vietnam issued a protocol aimed at helping fishermen who build bigger ships as a means of going farther out to sea ... for upgrades of some 400 ships ... Chinese survey ships and an oil rig also have turned up over the past five years in waters claimed by Vietnam....

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Barge bound for Alaska runs aground in British Columbia

Elko Daily Free Press 13 Nov 2019

{{featured_button_text}}. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — No injuries were reported and there was no marine pollution when a barge headed to Alaska grounded near Vancouver Island, officials said ... ×. We can't do it without you ... {{title}} ... Stay logged in to skip the surveys ... A Coast Guard ship stayed nearby Sunday night to monitor the barge, Imbue said ... ———....

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Adapt or die? Shipmanagement faces a critical juncture

Tradewinds 12 Nov 2019

Shipping is pulling in different directions in the march to digitalisation. Industry experts claim shipping needs to collaborate more before it will see the benefits of digitalization ... With the sulphur cap less than two months away, an InterManager survey has revealed fears over potential fatalities as ships switch fuels....

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India, US tri-services disaster relief exercise from November 13

The Times of India 12 Nov 2019

India is fielding its amphibious warships, INS Jalashwa and INS Airavat, survey ship INS Sandhayak, Army troops from the 19 Madras and 7 Guards battalions, and MI-17 helicopters and rapid action medical teams (RAMT) from the IAF ... “The ships, with troops embarked, would then sail ......

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Study: Exhaustion, boredom cause of seafarer depression

The Manila Times 12 Nov 2019

With over 1,500 seafarers completing survey questions based on their experiences, it was found out that other ship-specific factors caused seafarers to feel down, such as heavy workload, being unable to take shore leave, poor food, having a ‘bossy captain’, discrimination, being ......

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Remember why we celebrate Veterans Day

The Times & Democrat 11 Nov 2019

STORIES OF HONOR ... In a diary he kept for his family, he wrote about the suicide planes that attacked his ship as it sailed past Pearl Harbor toward the Japanese coast ... Stay logged in to skip the surveys ... Stay logged in to skip the surveys ... “Four suicide planes dove at our ship, shot three down, one explode(d) 25 yds from port beam,” he wrote in 1944....

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Guest opinion: Let's honor U.S. heroes with action, not just words

Billings Gazette 11 Nov 2019

We were both in the Western Pacific Theater, under the operating authority of Task Force 74, when Jeff’s boat ran into, at flank speed, an un-surveyed, newly formed underwater mountaintop. Almost everyone aboard the ship was injured, including Jeff, and one killed....