Oceanographic Equipment News Articles and Blog from Valeport

In early March 2018, an opportunity arose to join the Bristol Port survey team on a survey of the entrance to the city docks. Surveyed twice a year to monitor dredging requirements it gave Valeport the chance to collect sound velocity and turbidity profiles in the lower reaches of the Avon river as it joins the Bristol Channel and further up river where there is a stronger fresh water influence.

Watch the latest addition to the Valeport Support videos which shows step by step instructions for checking and calibrating the Midas CTD+ DO sensor.

Solving the sensor requirements for the equipment used by ASV (Autonomous Survey Vehicles), AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) and ROV's (Remotely Operated Vehicles)  is just one of the major challenges faced by the engineers at Valeport. Find out more about how they overcome them...

Valeport has launched a new profiler using automated wireless Bluetooth data transfer to deliver the highest quality CTD casts from underway profiling and eliminate the survey downtime normally associated with profile gathering. The new automated rapidCTD offers SV casts without the requirement of an operator on deck delivering near real tim...

Valeport’s new fastCTD Profiler is designed to deliver high quality CTD casts at rapid drop rates. Created for coastal and oceanographic profiling, this new profiler is an evolution of Valeport’s popular miniCTD instrument. The system incorporates Valeport’s world-class technology to allow the fastCTD Profiler to deliver the ...