PAC Costa Rica Cable Survey

Customer: Fugro Seafloor Surveys, Inc.

Start Year: 2006 End Year: 2007

City/Town: Parrita, Other - Not U.S., Costa Rica

Fugro Seafloor Surveys, Inc. subcontracted Sea Engineering, Inc. to conduct the inshore portions of the route surveys at Parrita, Costa Rica for the PAC Cable System Route Survey. The inshore survey included small boat, diver and landing site surveys. The beach landing topographic survey spanned a survey corridor of 250 meters from the beach man hole (BMH) to 0 m (MLLW). The diver survey was conducted along 5 survey lines from 0 m (MLLW) to approximately 3 meters water depth within a 250- meter corridor. The small boat survey included single beam bathymetry, subbottom and side scan within a corridor width of 500 meters in water depths less than 20 meters.  Post-processing results included charts and a report summarizing the inshore hydrographic and topographic surveys.

 

Sediment and rock layers below the seafloor, offshore of Parrita, Costa Rica