Category: Marine

Huelin-Renouf Shipping has awarded a bursary worth £4,500 over three years to a young Channel Islander whose ambition is to pursue a life at sea. Ashley Foster is a 19-year-old Alderney student about to embark on a four-year degree course at Plymouth University where he will study Merchant Shipping Marine Studies with the aim of [...]

Marine Electronics Ltd of Guernsey, UK, has delivered a high performance sediment imaging sonar to the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory in Liverpool. The sonar is the first of its kind and is capable of providing real-time video images showing the movement of individual grains of sand. The new sonar is expected to be used by the [...]

July sees the Set Sail Corporate Pilot Challenge take place in Guernsey on board two 60ft wooden hulled classic ships. This event has been organised by The Set Sail Trust, a local charity that supports many local maritime activities. The Set Sail Corporate Pilot Challenge, set up to raise awareness of The Set Sail Trust’s [...]

A pair of specialised 3D profiling sonars has been returned to duty on a bridge carrying the Coastal Highway down the United States eastern seaboard. The sonars were delivered two years ago and have now resumed their task of monitoring the development of a large hole that is being scoured in the estuary bed due [...]

Guernsey News, 17 December 2009 – A forward-looking sonar from Marine Electronics Ltd of Guernsey, UK, has been installed aboard a British-operated tanker as a major initiative to refine operational safety. The See Echo system was developed by Marine Electronics in cooperation with the ship owner to provide a three-dimensional image of the sea up [...]