Reaching a ‘century’ is always a significant milestone. Fugro GEOS has gone even further, for in the first quarter of 2010, for the first time in the history of the company, they reached a record total of a hundred simultaneous deployed oceanographic moorings and real-time metocean monitoring systems, which means there were 400 recording instruments on contract in the water simultaneously around the world.
'''The hundred moorings were a combination of 70 underwater moorings and 30 rig based systems with recording instruments measuring mostly currents,'” explains Fugro GEOS Operations Director, Garry Mardell. '“Our global reach is just as dramatic as the overall number of systems and instruments. Data was being collected for 50 clients, around the world stretching from Perth (Australia) to Houston (USA) and covering all oceans. '“Depth ranges were similarly impressive, they covered depths from 10m in Australia and the UK to 3500m in East Africa and India,'” he adds. '“The latter graphically demonstrates that our clients are moving increasingly into more remote and deeper areas of the oceans, with harsher environmental conditions, where virtually no measured current data exists. Some of the moorings are highly complex and are providing 1,000m current profiles in real time in ultra deep water remote locations. Fugro GEOS owns the largest commercial pool of oceanographic equipment in the world and use their own in-house specialised expertise which they employ around the world. Please read more at www.geos.com | 
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