Purpose and development of dredging - Dredging methods (Mechanical and hydraulic) - dredge pumps (centrifugal and Jet) - their characteristics and selection, pipeline transport of solids - characteristics of solid - water slurry flor in pipelines. Nature of deep sea bed resources - technical requirements of deep Ocean Mining - Deep sea mining systems - hydraulic and pneumatic life devices.
This course focuses on the principles of ocean instrumentation. All instruments consist of the following stages: transduction, signal conditioning, and data observation/analysis. This course describes these principles by using specific instruments such as SONAR, Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) profilers, current measurements, Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP). In addition to this the course also discusses data analysis for the different measurements recorded by the instruments.