Paul Duncan and Chris Barnard have been at Ifremer this week to have the latest training on our TECHSAS logging system.

They have also seen a new online system called gforge which is used to submit bugs, keep a record of the various modules in use on each ship and can be used as a forum to keep in touch with other Techsas users and developers.

They have also toured around the French research vessel Thalassa, which was in port during their visit. Thalassa is primarily used for fisheries research, so one of their main echo sounders is a multi-frequency fish-finding echo sounder, similar to our EK-60 on RRS James Cook. They have looked at the equipment used to synchronise the sonar sources, although the person that knows all about it was on holiday. Another item of interest has been sat-comms systems employed by Thalassa, Atalante and the other Ifremer ships.