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CONSULTANCY, ELABORATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP OF PROJECTS

The Cooperative of Maritime Power Professionals Ltd. (COOMAR) is mostly composed of retired officers and enlisted men of the Brazilian Navy, and has, as object, to provide services in the areas of the maritime sectors. It is an organization registered with the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation - DHN, Brazilian institution entrusted with controlling activities of Hydrography, Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, and with Admiral Moraes Rego Marine Aids to Navigation and Repair Center - CAMR, which is an affiliated member of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) as the Brazilian Lighthouse Authority. COOMAR offers the following services by means of its members, professionals with large experience, acquired over many years of service at DHN and CAMR:

1) Category "A" Automated Hydrographic Surveys compliant with DHN's Technical Instruction for Hydrographic Surveys (A-6A), using high resolution single-beam and multi-beam echosounders and positioning equipments with differential correction (SDGPS - Satellite Differential Global Positioning System) and HYPACK software, with applications in outlining and marking navigation channels, areas dangerous to navigation and in evaluating dredging operations, the drafts of which are made with AutoCad 2000 software;

Echosounders
Bathymetric Mapping

Sounding Boat

2) Physical Oceanographic Surveys. Installation and operation of tide stations, wave measurements, studies of sea currents and collection of water and sediment samples with sensors of digital technology and controlled by satellites;

Installation of Tide Stations

3) Shallow Water Seismic Surveys and sedimenthology analysis for planning foundation projects, calculus of dredging volume and underwater cable and pipe laying;

Shallow Water Transducer and Interface

4) Topographical Surveys of geometric levelings, coordinates transportation and georeferencing;

Geometric Levelings
Coordinates Trasportation
Georreferencing
Satellite Tracking

5) Making of Sport and Leisure Nautical Charts, which are designed to mariners who need specific cartographic information and representations with a level of details not often found on traditional charts and sailing directions. These charts have the following characteristics:

  • Format and scale suitable for use on small cratfts, which, in general, are not equipped with a navigation table.
  • Hydrographic and topographich details specific for users who usually sail very close to the coast, such as rocks, shoals, narrow channels, private buoyage systems, anchorage areas, mooring buoys, small quays and landings for boats, conspicuous constructions, marinas, yatch clubs, etc.
  • Plenty of information on facilities of interest to the sport and leisure mariner, such as places for fuel, water and provisions supply, physician, inns, hotels, banks, maritime authorities, customs, police, road accesses, etc.
    In addition to its traditional printed form, the sport and leisure chart can be produced , supplied and updated in digital format (Electronic Chart), compatible with the main softwares available on the market.
Sport and Leisure Nautical Charts

6) Technical consultancy and elaboration of Aids to Navigation System Projects to the "Standards of the Maritime Authority for Aids to Navigation Systems" - NORMAN 17/DHN; construction, establishment and maintenance of both fixed and floating Aids to Navigation systems , using electronic positioning equipment (SDGPS - Sattellite Global Differntial Positioning System) and HYPACK software;

 

7) Elaboration of projects, installation, operation and maintenance of Meteorological Stations for obtaining measurements atmospheric pressure, temperature, relative humidity and intensity and direction of the wind;

Meteorological Stations

The experience acquired by its members in many years in the areas of Naval Engineering, Aerospace, Electronics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Electric, Naval Sciences, Hydrography, Cartography and Nautical Signaling, Oceanography, Meteorology, Finances, Budgets, Environment, Computer Sciences, Logistics, Cataloguing, Administration and Quality Control, enables COOMAR to provide consultancy to companies, public authorities, non-governmental organizations and autonomous professionals. Furthermore, COOMAR is able give advice on aeronautic matters by means of its Aviation Technical Board.

 
 
 
   
COOMAR - Cooperative of Maritime Power Professionals
Av. Rio Branco 31, office 1903/1904, Centro, Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Phone number: (0-55-21) - 2233-0717
E-mail: coomar@coomar-rj.coop.br