CUSTOM-BUILT CURRENT AND WAVE MONITORING SYSTEM

OSIL’s (Ocean Scientific International Ltd.) expertise as a system provider were recently employed on a wave and current survey in Yemen, the end user for the data being a well known French oil company.  The application’s purpose is to collect current and wave data of shallow waters in support of a wider metocean study. The OSIL custom-built system included two Nortek AWACs for measuring current speed and directional waves, a Nortek Internal Wave Processor and a steel armoured data cable to transport the data once collected.