I just came across your blog about Scott and enjoyed reading about his past; thank you for putting this together.
I knew Scott during my time at GEMS Survey between 2007 and 2012. As a marine geophysicist we spent most days working with his InfoX software. This was rather unique with its lack of interfaces, reliance upon shortcuts, and “word of mouth” manual!
Many hours were spent trying to problem shoot only to find out that the source code or key had changed which meant a frantic call back to the office as we ran lines somewhere off the coast of West Africa.
However despite InfoX’s ergonomic failings, Scott was indeed a talented man who enabled GEMS to produce high quality geophysical data from all depths of water and types of strata using a multitude of systems; his contribution to the development of the sector will be missed.
Boris Petrov crew in South Africa, 2008.
Scott is in last row on right.
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I worked very closely with Scott onboard the Boris Petrov in 2008 as we conducted a survey for the South African Government as part of their UNCLOS Article 56 claim. We were all a bit bemused by the term “fast seismics” which turned out to be concept by which we cruised at twice the speed of a normal seismic acquisition. With the Russian crew regularly drunk and the seismic engineers perplexed by their equipment, it wasn’t very successful. We spent many weeks working together trying to improve data quality and produce a viable product; we eventually succeeded, but it took his coding abilities to the brink!