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Data Cable Position Assessment Survey
In March of 2014, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. for the provision of a marine survey to assess the condition of an existing data cable installed the previous Fall near the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. Seaforth utilized multiple marine survey instruments in order to accurately position-assess the condition…
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Saint-Pierre et Miquelon to Newfoundland Cable Route Survey
In the spring of 2016, LS Cable & Systems Canada Inc. contracted Seaforth Geosurveys to conduct a geotechnical survey using cone penetration testing and vibrocores offshore of Cape Tormentine, NB in support of the Cable Supply and Install for PEI-NB Interconnection Upgrade project. Later in the Fall, Seaforth was contracted by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks to…
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Emera’s Proposed Atlantic Link Project – Route Investigation
In the spring of 2017, Emera Inc. contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. to conduct a preliminary route investigation survey for the Emera’s proposed Atlantic Link Project. Seaforth conducted a survey of the area of interest, acquiring both bathymetric and sub-bottom profile data used to identify the most suitable route for the transborder transmission cable linking Canada…
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MAIN ONE and BT NORTH Cable System Survey
In 2019, with the assistance of Seaforth Geosurveys, Maritech International completed four marine route surveys onboard the R/V Med Surveyor. Included in the projects were two West African cable routes for the MAIN ONE submarine communications cable system, one off the coast of Senegal and one landing in the Ivory Coast. Later that same year,…
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Cable Route Survey from Uruguay to Argentina
In 2010, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by International Telecom for the provision of a submarine cable route survey between Maldonado, Uruguay and Las Toninas, Argentina across the Rio De La Plata. The survey included multibeam, singlebeam, sidescan sonar, subbottom and geotechnical data acquisition, and all associated data processing and reporting.
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Fundy Isles Cable Replacement Project
Between July and August of 2019, DeepOcean UK Ltd. contracted Dominion Diving Ltd. to survey and provide verification of a proposed marine geophysical route for the Fundy Isles Cable Replacement (FICR) project near the entrance to the Bay of Fundy in Eastern Canada. Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. conducted both multibeam echosounder and sidescan sonar surveys to…
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PRAT Cable System Survey
In June 2019, Seaforth Geosurveys personnel joined IT Telecom to conduct a survey of the planned PRAT submarine cable system between the Chilean cities of Africa and Puerto Montt, with 12 landings along the route. This 3500 km system of the garland-like submarine cable has officially become operational in the Spring of 2020.
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FORCE Power Cable Deployment, Minas Passage, NS – Fall, 2014
Seaforth supplied high-precision navigation services on multiple vessels via a wireless network during the deployment of four power cables at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) tidal turbine berth sites. Seaforth also provided as-laid cable route charts in near real time based on the acquired multibeam data after each cable lay to facilitate…
