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Bathymetric Survey of Quarry Loading Dock
In October of 2019, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by Leeway Marine to perform a detailed hydrographic survey of the seafloor at the quarry loading dock area of the Atlantic Minerals Ltd. quarry site located in Lower Cove, NL.
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Ocean Tracking Network Glider Search
In November of 2019, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), a global aquatic animal tracking, data management, and partnership platform based at Dalhousie University, to conduct a sidescan sonar survey in search of a disabled Teledyne Slocum Glider located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Survey results indicated possible targets which were…
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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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Tarsuit Caisson Removal Project
The Tarsuit caissons were constructed to create an artificial island for the installation of an oil exploration rig in Arctic waters. The concrete caissons were floated into a box-shaped formation where they were infilled with dredge sand to stabilize them on the seafloor. After sealing the corners where each caisson met with large steel gates,…
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Optimum Site Selection for Tidal Energy Development
In the spring of 2016, the Offshore Energy Research Association (OERA), under commission of the Nova Scotia Department of Energy, had engaged Cape Sharp Tidal Development Ltd. to lead a team of collaborators for the Instream Tidal Energy Resource Characterization of the Bay of Fundy Study Area project. Included in this team was Seaforth Geosurveys…
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Petitcodiac River Monitoring Program
Between 2009 and 2015, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by GEMTEC Ltd. for the provision of multibeam echosounder, subbottom profiler, sediment and water sample collection surveys as part of an ongoing and repetitive sediment monitoring program in Shepody Bay, upper Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. The monitoring program, conducted on board the Huntsman Marine Science…
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ROV Support for M/V Manolis L
In January of 2014, a new cofferdam was installed over a fuel leak in the hull of the shipwreck, M.V. Manolis L, offshore of Blow Hard Rock, NL. Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. assisted Sea-Force Diving Ltd. in providing survey equipment, expertise and support positioning a survey vessel, barge and ROV over key points of the shipwreck…
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Kearl Oil Sands Subsurface Survey – Monitoring Muskeg
As part of the IOL Kearl Oil Sands project in Alberta’s Athabasca Oil Sands region, Challenger Geomatics Ltd. had contracted Seaforth Geosurveys to conduct a number of reoccurring geophysical surveys between 2014 and 2014 of the subsurface of a tailing area for the purpose of investigating and facilitating remedial measures of muskeg and other submerged…
