27 Jun Southern Oceans Engineering R&D centre opens its doors and welcomes student engineering technicians
Sea Technology Services welcomes Engineering Technician Students Sinekhaya Bilana, Ashley Botha and Jean-Pierre (JP) Smit to the newly established CSIR initiative, the Southern Oceans Engineering R&D Centre (SOERDC).
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Sea Technology Services has been contracted by CSIR to setup and establish the SOERDC facility at East Pier, V&A Waterfront, to:
- grow marine and oceanographic engineering expertise in South Africa
- provide servicing, refurbishment and repair of gliders
- establish a glider port in Southern Africa
- develop and integrate new oceanographic sensors and sensor platforms
Since SOERDC opened its doors in 2012, it has:
- Hosted engineers from French Institute for Exploration of the Sea
- Hosted a team from Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab
- Commisioned two new Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders
- Serviced and Refurbished iRobot seagliders