A trip to Korea

Invited by Insung to demonstrate the SEA SWATHplus sonar to NFRDI , the Korean fisheries research organisation near Pussan. NFRDI have their labs next door to the HaeDong YoungGung Temple. Mobilised the boat in the nearby fishing port of Daebyun .


Interesting to mobilise sonar on open fishing boats with tarpaulin shelters and dodgy installation points for the GPS and motion sensor.

Survey area was in a fisheries protected area outside the NFRDI labs a nice reef and rocky area which. Used IVS Fledermaus to image the area and plot on the local chart.

A journey to the middle of nowhere

River survey in central Tartarstan, the closest town to the survey area being Alekseevskoye. Surveying the dammed resevoir where the Kama River joins the Volga. It took a 15 hour journey from Moscow due east by road through Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. Stayed in a roadside motel for a week living on borscht and stews.

Interesting installation on a very small boat, made more interesting when survey grade Javad GPS failed to work and had to use a key fob bluetooth GPS for positioning. Also no motion sensor provided so had to balance the boat by siting 3 heavyweight Russians on the back seat of the boatfor trim and telling them not to move!