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Seawater Cooling Ordered By VARD For Newbuild Cable Layer

Cleaner Seas January 7, 2019

The Hydroniq Rack seawater cooler offers several operational and economic advantages compared with traditional plate heat exchangers. The system provides a simplified and short pipeline for seawater and has very low pressure loss which reduces energy consumption for seawater pumps and thus

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Bibby Marine Services Secures OSJ Offshore Renewables Award for Bibby WaveMaster 1

Cleaner Seas September 2, 2018

Bibby Marine Services has been awarded an Offshore Support Journal (OSJ) Offshore Renewables Award for the Bibby WaveMaster 1. The vessel is the first Damen Service Operations Vessel (SOV), a unique, purpose-built vessel for the deployment and retention of offshore support and maintenance personnel. 

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Posidonia 2018: Experts Agree Shipping Lags Behind in New Tech Adoption

Cleaner Seas July 6, 2018

The evolution of shipping from the first to the third industrial revolutions, and from using wind, steam and compasses to oil and satellites, required generations of development, yet it seems that the shipping world today is faced with a revolution which is unfolding with a breakneck speed due to the accelerating advent of new technologies such as the Internet of Things

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Singapore Sterntube Spill Reduced by Hydrex Mobdock

Cleaner Seas December 7, 2017

Using its flexible mobdock technology, damaged aft sterntube seals can be quickly replaced underwater during a vessels port-stay, negating the need for costly drydocking.

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Royal Canadian Navy to be supplied with Kelvin Hughes’ Downmast Submarine Radar

Cleaner Seas October 4, 2017

Kelvin Hughes, a world leader in maritime navigation and security surveillance radar, is delighted to announce that it will be supplying its SharpEye™ downmast submarine navigation radar in support of the Royal Canadian Navy’s sustainment program.

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Kelvin Hughes is Set to Celebrate its 70th Anniversary of First Type-Approved Maritime Radar

Cleaner Seas October 2, 2017

Kelvin Hughes is celebrating 70 years of radar in 2017. In 1947 the first Type 1 radar was produced and installed on a new fishing trawler, the Type 1 then went on to be the first type approved radar, gaining its type approval certificate on 11th August 1948, the first radar to do so.

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Autonomous Launch and Recovery Demonstrated by Planet Ocean & ASV

Cleaner Seas September 8, 2017

The demonstration, in front of invited guests from the project partners, Planet Ocean, National Oceanography Centre, ASV Ltd, University of Southampton and funders Innovate UK and Dstl took place on a sunny July day in the Solent.

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Kelvin Hughes Launches its New Electronic Chart Display and Information System

Cleaner Seas August 9, 2017

Kelvin Hughes is pleased to announce the launch of its latest Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) which is type approved to meet the latest International Hydrographic Office (IHO) and International Maritime Organisation (IMO) standards.

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Fluid Mechanics Becomes Part of L’Orange

Cleaner Seas August 3, 2017

This year Fluid Mechanics celebrates its 60th anniversary and will continue in North America to use the same name and personnel but now as fully functioning operation of L’Orange, a Rolls-Royce Power Systems company.

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New Drone Detection System Will be Launched by Kelvin Hughes

Cleaner Seas August 3, 2017

Kelvin Hughes is delighted to announce that it will be launching its new drone detection system at the Home Office Security & Policing exhibition. The SMS-D is the first integrated, medium-range, radar-based surveillance system designed for the detection and tracking of small aerial targets.