Geophysical / Geotechnical Surveys

  • 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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  • Arianne Phosphate Terminal Survey – Seguenay Fjord, QC

    In May of 2014, the World Port Source (WPS) Canada contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. in conducting a marine geophysical survey to acquire and supply high-resolution, accurate multibeam echosounder (bathymetric and backscatter) and subbottom seismic data to confirm or amend planning and engineering design for the Arianne Phosphate marine terminal facilities in the upper Saguenay Fjord,…

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  • Navigational Support for Assessment Trial

    In Mid-August of 2014, the Fundy Ocean research Centre for Energy contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. in the provision of equipment and expertise in navigational support on board the M/V Point Vim during an assessment trial along the proposed water cable routes nearest to Black Rock in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. The objective of…

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  • Schottel Berth Site-B Assessment Survey

    In July 2014, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by Black Rock Tidal Power to conduct a detailed data assessment of the northwestern block of the Crown Lease Deployment Area in the Minas Passage, upper Bay of Fundy. This assessment was to assist in determining an optimal relocation site for one of the four berth sites…

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  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Recovery

    In April and July of 2015, Black Rock Tidal Power contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. to deploy and recover two ADCP platforms to investigate and analyze flow characterization at one of their berth locations within the FORCE test site in Minas Passage, Nova Scotia.

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  • BRTP Data Assessment – Micro Siting & Image Analysis

    In the spring of 2015, Black Rock Tidal Power contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. in the provision of their expertise in assessing existing survey data at a site of interest in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. This survey data consisted of detailed high-resolution multibeam bathymetric and sidescan sonar data and was being assessed in the potential…

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  • BRTP Land Based Geotechnical Investigations – Diligent River, NS

    In the Fall of 2015, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by Black Rock Tidal Power Inc. (BRTP) to assist in a sampling program for a land-based investigation and analysis using geotechnical borehole core samples and outcropping bedrock in the intertidal zones of the near shore region of Diligent River, adjacent to the Fundy Ocean Research…

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  • FORCE Cable Monitoring Survey – TISEC Berths & Cable Routes

    In the fall of 2015, the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) contracted Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. to conduct a high-resolution geophysical survey over four TISEC Berths and associated cable routes as part of a cable monitoring program to assess the conditions of the power cables and seafloor environment approximately one year after the deployment…

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