M/V Royal Fish
The M/V Royal Fish is a customized 25' inboard gas powered jet boat capable of single beam, multibeam, side scan and geophysical surveys. It has an extremely shallow draft. It is based in Texas.
Related Projects:
- NOAA Charting - Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi
- Gulf of Mexico
- We were contracted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide sidescan, single beam, and multibeam sonar services for Debris Mapping of the Alabama Fairways and Perdido Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
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- NOAA - Alaska IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Alaska
- Since 1998, we have supplied the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with hydrographic data of 100% bottom coverage with shallow-water multibeam sonar systems.
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- NOAA Charting - Mississippi and Alabama
- Gulf of Mexico
- The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tasked TerraSond to provide multibeam sonar and sidescan sonar survey services so that nautical charts of the survey area in Mississippi and Alabama could be updated.
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- USACE - Alaska IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Alaska
- Since 1995, we have provided the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Alaska District with hydrographic, topographic, and Global Positioning System (GPS) control surveys; aerial photography; LiDAR mapping; and tide studies on over five hundred projects throughout Alaska.
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- NOAA - Nationwide IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, U.S.A
- We understand NOAA's requirements and have the trained staff and equipment to perform their vital surveys. This 5-year term contract supports NOAA's nautical charting mission in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, and all other navigable waters of the U.S., including the East Coast, Pacific, Great Lakes, and U.S. territories.
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- NOAA Charting - Kasaan Bay
- Kasaan Bay, Alaska
- NOAA contracted us to provide hydrographic surveying and support services in Kasaan Bay, Alaska. This survey was comprised of two Task Orders for multibeam surveying, shoreline verification, shoreline buffer, and Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System (AWOIS) investigations on 13 sites.
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- USACE - Texas IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Texas
- Since 2003, TerraSond has provided and continues to provide hydrographic surveys and related support services for the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
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- Channel Clearance Surveys - Texas
- Ingleside, Texas
- For this project, we were tasked by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- Galveston District, to conduct multiple high resolution repeat surveys for the Jewell-Fulton Channel, LaQuinta Channel, Corpus Christi Channel, and Aransas Pass Entrance Channel, using multibeam and sidescan sonar for data collection.
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- Levee Integrity Surveys
- Stockton and Lodi, California
- An engineering firm contracted us to perform hydrographic surveys in Stockton and Lodi, California following the failure of a neighboring levee. This project involved collecting high resolution multibeam and sidescan sonar, at close range, in shallow water.
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- Channel Clearance Surveys - Louisiana
- Port of Iberia, Louisiana
- We conducted two channel clearance surveys in the Port of Iberia Channel. The first was a comprehensive bottom and debris survey using sidescan and multibeam sonars for the egress route for an oil platform module along an 8-mile stretch of the Iberia Navigation Canal. Additional geophysical surveys were done for clearance at two docks along the route at the Port of Iberia.
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- Post Hurricane Rita Emergency Call-out Clearance Surveys
- Various Locations, Texas
- Our surveyors were tasked by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Galveston District to form immediate response teams to survey Texas ports the day after Hurricane Rita reached landfall. We acted fast to survey the Houston Ship Channel, and two other ports that were hit hard by the hurricane.
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- Lake Travis Multibeam and Sidescan
- Lake Travis, Texas
- An engineering firm contracted us to conduct RTK multibeam bathymetric and side scan sonar surveys of three locations within Lake Travis, Texas. Lake Travis is the main reservoir feeding the Austin, TX area and is located in the Hill Country of Texas at an elevation of roughly 700 ft. NAVD 88. The purpose of the survey was to locate the 655 ft. contour on the lakebed for designing a new water intake valve to feed nearby towns, like Volente, Texas.
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- Post Hurricane Ike Emergency Call-out Clearance Surveys
- Various Locations, Texas
- Working closely with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Galveston District, along with NOAA's National Weather Service and other agencies, we developed a plan of action before Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coastline.
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