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Shag Harbour UFO – Legends of the Deep TV Filming
In August of 2018, Seaforth personnel joined Legends of the Deep film series hosts, Celine and Fabien Cousteau, to provide Seaforth’s expertise in seabed mapping to collect detailed, high-resolution multibeam bathymetry near the “Shag Harbour Rip” area of interest, purported to be the location of a sunken UFO just offshore of Shag Harbour, NS. This…
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Amherst Island Wind Farm Project Route Survey
In August of 2017, Maritech contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. to carry out a marine fibre-optic cable route survey as part of the Amherst Island Wind Farm Project, proposed to connect the wind generated electricity on Amherst Island, ON to the mainland power grid east of Millhaven, ON.
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Hibernia Express Fibre Optic Cable Route Survey, East Coast Canada – Fall, 2014
On board the RV Coriolis II, Seaforth collected geophysical data for a route survey for the Hibernia Networks Project Express trans-Atlantic cable, which will provide a high-speed communication link between Nova Scotia and UK. Operating in the challenging seabed environment between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which is characterized by variable depths and steep slopes, Seaforth conducted…
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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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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 phase I 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…
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Deep Ocean J18-114 – Fundy Isles Cable Replacement
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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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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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, two…
