Projects
Vibracore Borings in Ft. Myers, Florida
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District Year: 2011 Contract Value: $57K In June 2011 Sea Surveyor shipped our 10’ mini-vibracore, air compressor, and inflatable survey boat FIREFLY in a sea container to Ft. Myers, Florida and collected 27 vibracore...
Vail Lake Pre-Dredge Survey with Sediment Sampling and Testing
Client: Rancho California Water District Completion Date: 2013 Contract Value: $ 120K Vail Lake in Riverside County has accumulated 15’of silt (400,000 cubic yards) near the Dam that needs to be dredged, and 4’-5’ of silt (2.5-million cubic yards) covers the remaining...
Class I Hydrographic Surveys At US Coast Guard Stations
Client: U.S. Coast Guard, Civil Engineering Unit Completion Date: 2003 Contract Value: $250K For 13-years (1991 to 2003), Sea Surveyor conducted Class 1 pre- and post-dredge hydrographic surveys at U.S. Coast Guard Stations in California, Oregon, and Washington. The...
IDIQ Hydrographic Survey Tasks for USACE, San Francisco District
Client: USACE, San Francisco District Completion Date: 2015 Contract Value: $10 million A 5-year IDIQ survey contract with USACE, San Francisco District includes a myriad of different needs for hydrographic surveys requirements, 1-2 day surveys, quick response with...
Thailand Ocean Outfall Design Study
Client: Bechtel Corporation Completion Date: 1991 Contract Value: $85K Sea Surveyor conducted a complex 1-year oceanographic investigation along the southeast coast of Thailand. Our oceanographic data was used to design an ocean intake/outfall structure for a...
Survey of The South San Francisco Bay
Client: U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYCompletion Date: 2005Contract Value: $382K In 2005, Sea Surveyor conducted an intensive, bank-to-bank hydrographic survey of South San Francisco Bay. Soundings were collected for the next-generation of nautical charts being prepared by...
Monitoring Sea Levels – South Bay San Francisco
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District Completion Date: 2012 Contract Value: $285K Steve Sullivan of MBC conducted a 1-year comprehensive evaluation of project datums (CEPD) in support of the South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project...
Multibeam Surveys Around and Under Oil Platforms
Client: Minerals Management Service Completion Date: 2002 Contract Value: $162K In 2001-2002, Sea Surveyor conducted a series of MULTIBEAM hydrographic surveys around 16 offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin of California. The...
San Francisco Marine Hazardous Rock Survey
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District Contract Value: $190K A/E Contract Value: $1 Million Under contract to the San Francisco District, Corps of Engineers, Sea Surveyor conducted a highly-detailed geophysical survey of five (5) geological...
Offshore San Diego Survey For Beach Sand Re-nourishment
Client: San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)Completion Date: 1999Contract Value: $ 500,000 In 1999, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) contracted Sea Surveyor to conduct precision hydrographic, geophysical, and vibracoring investigation of 10...
Emergency Survey Of 85 Miles of Delta Ship Channels
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District Completion Date: 2000 Contract Value: $150K The New Year’s Flood of 1998 caused shoaling throughout the 44-mile long Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel and the 41-mile long San Joaquin River Ship Channel. Sea...
Oceanside Paleochannel Survey
Client: San Diego County Water Authority Completion Date: 2012 Contract Value: $120K In 2011, Sea Surveyor, Inc. conducted a seismic reflection (subbottom profiling) survey of a 1-mile (offshore) x 4-mile (alongshore) area at the U.S. Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton...
Ocean Beach
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco DistrictCompletion Date: 1993Contract Value: $45K To study beach erosion that threatens the Great Highway along Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, the Army Corps of Engineers measured profiles of the ocean...
Comprehensive Evaluation of Project Datums (CEPD) at Noyo Harbor, CA
Client: US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District Completion Date: 2012 Contract Value: $ 664K As part of an IDIQ contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Sea Surveyor, Inc. completed a Comprehensive Evaluation of Project Datums (CEPD) at Noyo Harbor in...
Sediment Core Sampling in Morro Bay Wetlands
Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District Completion Date: 2002 Contract Value: $45K During November 2002, Sea Surveyor collected 18 sediment core samples of nominal 10’ length at eighteen (18) locations in the salt marsh and wetlands of Morro Bay,...
Malibu Paleochannel Survey
Client: City of Malibu, California Completion Date: 2012 Contract Value: $75K In 2012, Sea Surveyor, Inc. conducted a seismic reflection (subbottom profiling) survey of a 1.5 square mile area along famous Malibu Beach, California. The survey’s purpose, to map the...
Lake Wohlford Bathymetric Survey
Client: City of Escondido Completion Date: 2012 Contract Value: $25K As part of a Federal- and State-funded project to upgrade seismically-unsafe dams, the City of Escondido contracted Sea Surveyor, Inc. to map the bottom of Lake Wohlford in San Diego County,...
Lake Almanor
Client: Pacific Gas & Electric Company Completion Date: 2002 Contract Value: $ 90K In 2000 and 2002, Sea Surveyor conducted a series of hydrographic surveys, subbottom profiling, and diving inspections in Lake Almanor, California at elevation 4,500’. The purpose...
Lake and Reservoir Surveys
Sea Surveyor has surveyed over 50 lakes and reservoirs in 5 Western States since 1985, ranging in elevation from sea level to over 7,000’. Our tow vehicles have trailered our survey boats over 9,000’ mountain passes, and launched the boats in lakes without boat ramps....
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
Client: City of San Francisco, Public Utilities CommissionCompletion Date: 2001Contract Value: $16K During September 2001, Sea Surveyor conducted the first hydrographic survey of historic Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. Soundings from the Class 1...
Caribbean Survey for design of offshore mooring
Client: Falconbridge Dominicana Completion Date: 2006 Contract Value: $80K In August 2006, Sea Surveyor conducted a complex hydrographic, marine geophysical and geotechnical survey in the Caribbean Sea near the Port of Haina, Dominican Republic for design of a single...
Hydrographic Survey of the lower Colorado River, Arizona
Client: U.S. Bureau of ReclamationContact: Jerry LumsdenCompletion Date: 2008Contract Value: $320K The US Bureau of Reclamation contracted our client, TETRA TECH, to map 297-miles of the Lower Colorado River. The survey area extended from Davis Dam in Laughlin, Nevada...
Survey of buried pipeline across Sacramento River
Client: Chevron Pipeline Company Completion Date: 2000 Contract Value: $120K Chevron Pipeline Company transports aircraft fuel to Sacramento Airport through an 8”-diameter pipeline buried beneath the 7-mile wide Sacramento Delta. At 5-year intervals (1987, 1992, and...
Amazon River
Sea Surveyor conducted the first survey of the previously uncharted Ucayali and Urubamba Rivers in the Amazon Region of Peru. The purpose for the survey was to map 400-miles of natural river channels and prepare Navigation Charts that would allow tugs and barges to...