Ports & Harbours

Ports & Harbours: A harbour is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbours where ships can dock and transfer people.

Ports & Harbours are safe havens for shipping and are the entry and exit points for trade in and out of the country. Keeping them monitored for safe passage is essential to keep trade moving and to avoid maritime accidents happening resulting in human and environmental consequences. Oceanographic equipment is used in the design and development of ports and harbours as well as the ongoing monitoring and maintenance to ensure efficient and safe operations.

Environmental Conditions – Currents, Waves and Tides

Pressure based

RBRsolo³ compact single channel depth, tide or wave loggers
RBRvirtuoso³ standard single channel depth, tide and wave loggers
RBRduet³ & RBRduo³ dual channel options adding T, DO, Tu, PAR, Conductivity, etc.
RBRconcerto³ & RBRmaestro³ multi channel options (adding up to 9 other channels to the D)
RBRquartz³ high accuracy / low drift paroscientific sensor options
Up to 10,000m depth rating

Nortek

Acoustic Surface Tracking (AST) using AWAC and Signature profilers
PUV (Pressure) based using the Vector, the Aquadopp Current Meter, and the Aquadopp Current Profilers.

Radar Based

WaveGuide Water Level
WaveGuide Height & Tide
WaveGuide Direction
WaveGuide OnBoard

Buoy Based

TRIAXYS Directional Wave Buoy
TRIAXYS Directional Current & Wave Buoy
TRIAXYS Mini Buoy
WatchKeeper Buoy
3m Buoy
5m Nomad Buoy
HydroLevel Buoy

Measuring water quality / below water environmental properties:

RBRsolo³ compact single channel depth, temp., DO, Tu and PAR loggers
RBRvirtuoso³ standard single channel conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
RBRduet³ & RBRduo³ dual channel options with two of conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
RBRconcerto³ & RBRmaestro³ multi channel options up to 10 channels of above
RBR Wirewalker wave powered profiling system
RBR inductive modem

Insitu water sampling and monitoring (ecoli, etc.)
Portable automatic analyzing system

Visual Inspections

DTG2 ROV
DTX2 ROV
DTPod Drop Cameras
Pipe / Bottom Crawlers
Utility Crawlers

Mapping

Side Scan Sonar
Sub-bottom Profiler
Bathymetry
Combined Sensors
AUV/ROV Sonar
USBL Nav., Positioning, MRU

Split Beam Scientifc Echosounders
Autonomous Submersible EchoSounders
Aquatic Habitat Echosounders

RTSYS

AUVs

Invasive Species Monitoring

DTG2 ROV
DTX2 ROV
DTPod Drop Cameras
Utility Crawlers

Mooring Equipment

Fixing your equipment is important to ensure it is still there when you return. Being able to recover it too is as important and the EdgeTech range of acoustic releases and pop up buoys allow this.

Acoustic releases
Combined acoustic release and pop up buoy system

In column ADCP buoys and floats, complimented by the range of bottom frames means that you can get your instrumentation in the exact place that you need it. Combined with inbuilt release systems (such as EdgeTech’s) means that the entire mooring can be recovered, serviced and redeployed.

Bottom mounting frames
Trawl resistant bottom frames (TRBM)
ADCP buoys
Mooring floats
Instrument inline frames

Knowing where you assets are when underwater, or at night, requires high intensity and reliable lights such as the Novatech flashers. When the assets are recovered by a 3rd party, be it by a weather event, a trawler or through sabotage, being alerted and being able to track it via satellite gives an increased chance of recovery.

Iridium Satellite Beacons
VHF Tracking Beacons
LED Flasher

Miscellaneous

Keeping your sensors clean in a marine environment is always the challenge. Zebra-Tech’s range of wipers allows sensors for Tu, PAR, DO, etc. be physically wiped ensuring that the data you collect is as good as possible. A range of wipers for camera systems is also available ensuring your view is not obscurred and service visits by divers can be extended.