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Northumberland Strait Multibeam Bathymetry Survey
From August to December of 2018, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) to conduct multibeam bathymetric surveys of pre-selected sites throughout Northumberland Strait, NS, and offshore of Souris, PEI. Using state of the art equipment and implementing high level data processing and quality control procedures enabled Seaforth to provide a final data set in…
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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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Seafloor Mapping and Seep Sampling Program
During the summer of 2014, Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. was contracted by TGS Canada Ltd. (TGS) to conduct a seabed mapping program to identify and characterize potential petroleum systems offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The objective of this project was to enhance the understanding of the prospect potential of known and recently discovered petroleum basins in the…
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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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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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Environmental Assessment of a Shipwreck, Newfoundland
Seaforth assisted Sea-Force Diving and the Canadian Coast Guard’s Environmental Response Team in efforts to assess and contain a fuel leak from the M/V Manolis L wreck, located off Change Islands, NL. Seaforth supplied a USBL, navigation system and personnel to aid in ROV operations for locating fuel leaks, positioning of cofferdams and sandbags over…
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Benthic Habitat Mapping, Laurentian Channel
Earlier this month, Seaforth completed a high-resolution multibeam and sub-bottom profile survey of the St. Anns Bank & Laurentian Channel for the Department of Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO). The area of interest is ecologically and biologically significant; selected for a potential establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) status. Knowledge of the seafloor diversity through…
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Nova Scotia: Defined by the Sea
Government report on how Nova Scotia is leading the Ocean Technology sector The Nova Scotian provincial government’s jobsHere program has put together a great report about the marine technologies economy and it’s benefits to the province — and the report mentions Seaforth by name as an example of a successful local Marine Geomatics company. “Marine geomatics…
