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Jan 2012 - 10th Class International

Today we started our new Hydrographic Survey Course.  We welcomed our particpants from returning companies and a couple of participanst from new companies

Starting 22 August 2011 - Hydrographic Survey “B” Course – 9th Class International – Rotterdam

We still have some vacancies for this course commencing on 22 August 2011 at STC in Rotterdam.

Apart from new clients we are now attracting individuals who are interested in working in our hydrographic survey industry. They all realize that with a stronger back ground they are more vulnerable to the maritime and offshore industry. We still have some vacancies for 2 applicants even at this short notice to have a full group during the workshops visits and practical tasks. Visit our website or contacted us by info@skilltrade.nl

Start Hydrographic Survey Category “B”. Still some vacancies left !!!

We are please since January 2007 that we run the 10th CAT B course. With 10 applicants we are pleased to see
previous clients coming back such as Global Marine System Ltd, van Oord, RWS Limburg and the Swedish Administration
Also the first candidate from Sakhalin Energy, Russia. For the first four weeks we welcome Brian Smith of Ireland ,
who worked before as Skipper on various hydrographic survey projects.  We are pleased with the interest and
we do have still two places available for late decision makers.

8th February 2011 - the Hydrographic Survey Course visited RESON BV















During this day we got a presentation with the work and products of Reson and an insight into the work done by the Netherland office. The presentation of course consisted of the Reson range of Multibeam Echo Sounders but also of their other products. We were presented with a good general description of MBES and the surrounding equipment. The Netherland office is responsible for the development of the software PDS2000 which integrates Multibeam with all the sensors needed and possibly a few more. The most fashionable feature in the survey business at the moment seems to be integration of laser scanning with MBES bathymetry. We were shown and explained very nice examples of these features integrated in PDS2000. After the presentation we had a trip through the service department where Reson B.V. still do a lot of work on positioning systems and on old Side Scan Systems. Additional information: Reson has about 130 employees whereof 27 works in the Netherlands.

1 February 2011 - Aberdeen visit

We travelled to Aberdeen to hand deliver the first sets of the 2nd release of our Handbook of Offshore Surveying (Vol-1, vol-2 and Vol-3) to Nautronix, CDL, MDL and Seatronics. All of these companies did contribute to our Handbook in one way or the other.
We thank them all for their support and suggest to visit : www.skilltradebookstore.nl to order your own copy.

28 January 2011 - Skilltrade: Hydrographic Survey Course – Rotterdam














Today our students had to put into practice some of their skills required for positioning, tides, planning and working together. They were provided with a sextant, tripod, leveller, paper, tide gauges and various other bits and pieces of equipment. Two groups were formed and each group had to plan their combined exercise of installing a tide gauge, deriving positions and getting familiar with new equipment. Most students had used some of the available equipment before, others had had no exposure to land survey equipment or a sextant at all. All in all a long day with some sunshine, lots of wind and a challenging exercise.

27 January 2011 New Handbooks of Offshore Surveying in 3 Volumes

Skilltrade was founded to provide vocational training to professionals who are affiliated with the offshore survey industry. Because of the demand for training in general, courses are now also given to personnel who have minimal offshore survey exposure. The training is focused on providing the individuals with knowledge fitting their professional competences through a series of multi-level and multi-skilled courses, based on the industries own requirements and verifiable standards.

Hydrographic Surveyors, Geophysicists, Survey Engineers, ROV pilots, Geodesists, Captains, Project Managers, Geologists and Land Surveyors have written this Three Volume Handbook. All examples detailed in the Handbook are derived from situations encountered in their years as Surveyors offshore and onshore around the world.

The 3 Volumes comprise of:

Volume I Projects, Preparation & Processing
Volume II Positioning & Tides
Volume III Acquisition Sensors

For more information of the contents and sales, please visit our bookstore: www.skilltradebookstore.nl

18 January 2011 - Introduction Hydrography Course – Rotterdam

xiv.On these two days Jelle Roders provided our Intro Hydro course for a group of participants from mainly Visser & Smit Hanab. Participants from one or two other companies joined the course and provided an excellent basis for the various discussions during these two days. The course topics range from general topics like Projects, Preparations & Processing to Positioning, geodesy, tides and GPS. Multibeam and Side Scan Sonar.

16 January 2011 - Visit to the Middle East

Our travels to the Middle East started with visiting the Port of Dammam. We were welcomed by the Chief Hydrographer and enjoyed an interesting tour through the harbour. This was especially interesting for Johan, as he was involved with the construction of the south breakwater in the seventies. Our travels continued with an interesting discussing with Saudi Aramco in Ras Tanura further travels in Saudi Arabia and a final visit to the Hydrographic Survey Department of Bahrain.











11 January 2011 - Cultural Communications – Rotterdam

For the 4th year we take part in the course STC has set up for VanOord.

We provide a 2day course on Cultures and Communications to the international dredging crew for VanOord.

The course is set up to provide the participants with background information on the various ways and manners of communications plus some insight into the similarities and differences of the various nationalities onboard.