telecom projects - ecuador

Ecuador

Mexico (Cabo San Jose, Mazatlan, Ixtapa, Lazaro Cardenas)

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Punta Carnero, Ecuador

The operations in Punta Carnero, Ecuador were a continuation of the same inshore cable route project started in Mancora, Peru.  Global Remote Sensing's International Team entered the country near the Peruvian border town of Tumbes, Peru.  Initial setbacks due to stolen/hijacked equipment from the Ecuadorean customs warehouse delayed operations slightly.  Once the team was united with its equipment, after a lengthy search and recovery, the Inshore geophysical, topographic, and dive surveys were underway.

Ecuadorean government procedure requires that representatives of that country be present for survey or scientific research.  The GRS team was paired up with the Ecuadorean equivalent of the US Navy Seals during all facets of the operation.  Both groups benefited from the exchange and ideas and technology during their interaction.

In all, the GRS team was able to mobilize a vessel for geophysical survey, conduct a large topographic survey on the beach area, and complete a series of dives in fairly rough surf conditions in less than a week.  Despite initial setbacks upon entering the country, the cooperation of our agents and the Ecuadorean officials allowed GRS to comfortably work through logistics and help get the final product to our client in a timely manner.

(Images: Overview of the planned cable routes for Peru (Yellow- South) and Equator (Blue – North).  Working with the client representative in establishing a utility manhole position for the planned cable junction.)

(Images:  Late-night cable splicing party to repair damaged magnetometer cable.  Shrimp nets are apparently not well marked.  More often than not, buoys marking these nets are made of plastic soft drink bottles.  Real-time kinematic base station – located on top of an old hydrographic benchmark and another fiber optic cable manhole.)

(Images: Working in near-zero visibility and strong currents, Mike Leo sits on the dive survey line and collects bottom samples. Vessel of opportunity – in this case, a modified charter fishing boat, mobilized for Side-scan sonar, single-beam sonar, sub-bottom profiler, and magnetometer survey.  One of our Navy Seal detachment poses on the stern.)