BlueView Technologies is partnering with Maritime Security Training Consultants International (MSTCI) to provide fire department dive teams law enforcement maritime emergency response team (MERT) divers and maritime security members with working knowledge of imaging sonar technology and their applications. These skills will assist them in using BlueViews underwater vision systems to assist them in their duties. Read More
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Tideland Signal has delivered 24 SB-138P channel marker buoys complete with SolaMAX140 lanterns to mark the newly-developed Zakum Islands 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the shore of Abu Dhabi. Read More
On May 19 the Corps of Engineers Portland District christened two new survey boats naming them after Jake Redlinger and Art Elton District employees who had made their mark on the dredging and hydrographic surveying missions of the District. Read More
On August 16 The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 posted a draft peer review of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup project in its Web site.A consultant connected with the project asked Ray Bergeron president of Cable Arm Clamshell to comment on several paragraphs in the review. Bergeron has released the comments to International Dredging Review. (See Hudson River Trustees Urge Continued Dredging by David Murray IDR July/August 2010) Read More
The Trimble Heavy and Highway Division has released the Trimble SPS852 GNSS modular receiver and SPS552H GNSS heading add-on receiver for marine heavy and highway contractors. Read More
While driving alongside Beach Boulevard in Pascagoula Mississippi the average person would never know that just six months earlier the majority of that beach didnt exist. Its hard to imagine that a beach was just created out of nowhere but thats exactly what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mike Hooks Inc. and Gulf Sand & Gravel Inc. dba ENCO Dredging did during their collaboration on the Pascagoula Beach Boulevard project as part of the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP). Read More
The Corps of Engineers Memphis District Ensley Engineer Yard (EEY) and the Corps Marine Design Center (MDC) have completed the lengthening of the Corps of Engineers dustpan Dredge Hurley by 48 feet. The project increased the dredges length from 305 feet to 353 feet making it one of the largest vessels on the Mississippi River and increased the dredges dredging depth from 40 feet to a maximum of 75 feet. Read More
On July 29 Barry Holliday chair of Realize Americas Maritime Promise (RAMP) announced that Chairman James L. Oberstar chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee had agreed to include the groups harbor maintenance trust fund (HMTF) language in the committees markup of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2010. Read More
Ministers from the southern African countries of Malawi Mozambique and Zambia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the long-envisioned Shire-Zambezi Waterway project the online publication Africa Water News reported on July 6. Read More
Dredging Conferences to be Held Around the World WEDA Pacific Chapter will Gather in Monterey The annual meeting of the Western Dredging Association Pacific Chapter will be held on Wednesday… Read More
