Man-Made Objects on the Seafloor 2000

Papers presented at the international conference held in London, 2–3 May 2000

ISBN 0 906940 36 2, Softbound, 2000
Order Reference C21, Price £39.00

The seafloor is no longer a pristine environment. From the shallow continental shelves to the deep ocean floor, it is visited regularly by sampling devices, autonomous instruments and human beings. Cables are laid, structures placed, waste dumped; shipwrecks and lost equipment all inevitably finish up on the ocean floor.

This unique collection of papers, presented earlier this year at the SUT’s international conference Man-Made Objects on the Seafloor, covers a diverse selection of topics from around the world, ranging from the mid-Atlantic to the Sunda Straits. The application of technologies, equipment, methods and reasoning to areas as varied as artificial reefs, seafloor autonomous research stations, submarine telecommunication cables, subsea pipelines, radiological surveys, deepwater trawling, wreck exploration, decommissioning and mine warfare makes this 195-page volume a must for marine scientists, engineers and all those wishing a better understanding of Man’s activities in the marine environment. Includes 80 figures and tables.

Contents

• Artificial Reef Technology – KJ Collins, AC Jensen and IP Smith, Southampton Oceanography Centre

• Deep Ocean Landers: Seafloor Autonomous Research Stations – IG Priede, University of Aberdeen

• Technology for Ground Truthing Seafloor Processes – H Amann, Technical University of Berlin

• The Silent Enemy Below – Cdr RW Bell-Davies, Royal Navy, HMS Dryad

• Development of a Controllable Grab System for Deepwater Recovery – D Mearns, Blue Water Recoveries Ltd

• The History of the Submarine Telecommunication Cables – G Wrench, Global Marine Systems Ltd

• The subsea Pipeline – More Than Just a Steel Tube? – JHA Baker, Shell UK Exploration and Production

• Oil and Gas Seabed Infrastructure – What Is It and How Does It Affect Other Users of the Sea? –
  P Dyson, Total Oil Marine plc

• Archaeological Intervention in the Deep Sea –
  J Adams, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton

• Signs and Symptoms of Deepwater Trawling on the Atlantic Margin
  B Bett, Southampton Oceanography Centre

• Approaches to the Monitoring of Marine Disposal Sites Under the UK Food and Environment Protection Act
  (Part II, 1985) – HL Rees, SE Boyd, SM Rowlatt, DS Limpenny and MA Pendle, CEFAS

• Subsea Radiological Surveys: A Case Study at Dounreay – M French, Fathoms Ltd

• The Exploration of the Submarine Wrecks Kosomolets and I-52 by the Mir Submersibles –
  A Sagalevitch, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow

• Surveys of the Beaufort's Dyke Explosives Disposal Site – D Saward, Fisheries Research Services

• Drill Cutting Piles – JP Hartley, Hartley Anderson Ltd

• "Calibrating" the Effects of Man's Detritus through the Study of Genotoxic Pollution –
  M Crawford, Deep Water Recovery and Exploration Ltd

• The Ospar Commission Decision 98/3 – A Green Fig Leaf or an Environmental Turning Point? –
  P Wilkinson and D Bellamy, Bellamy Wilkinson and Associates