BEEMS Programme Bathymetric Surveys

DATE

March 2014

CLIENT

Location

Sizewell, UK

Throughout 2014 and 2015 we were contracted by Cefas to undertake a series of bathymetric and geophysical surveys in the vicinity of Sizewell nuclear power station in support of EDF’s British Energy Estuarine Marine Studies (BEEMS) programme.

Sizewell nuclear power station

This involved a number of spring and summer surveys over two years to collect high resolution bathymetric data of shoaling corridors and geophysical data of a local ‘mystery’ wreck.

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