Despite the rather bleak outlook published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in April, until late September, the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane season had proven, by historical standards at least, relatively benign.
Food security, resilient supply chains, energy transition, and the climate crisis—these are a few of the challenges we hear about every day in the news, at work and at home.
VideoRay is the world’s leading manufacturer of underwater, portable, inspection-class underwater robotic systems also known as ROVs. VideoRay’s Mission Specialist underwater robotic systems are used around the world to support national security, first responders, object search and recovery, infrastructure examination and science and research.
The number of Ocean Enterprise companies operating in Canada continues to grow at a pace outperforming our global counterparts. At the heart of this expanding Canadian sector on the shores of the Halifax Harbour is COVE, home to a community of over 60 ocean tech companies that are creating the world’s next practical, commercial, and revolutionary ocean tech advances.
The Blue Economy is poised to continue and accelerate its growth in 2023 and beyond. This will be driven by growth in sustainable production and harvesting of food, expanded investment in offshore wind and related renewable energy approaches, predicted high intensity and frequency of storms, the return of favorable economics for offshore oil/gas investment, and the continued need for preparedness for a changing risk environment related to marine conflicts.
The offshore wind industry in the United States took a major step forward in May 2021 with the official Federal approval for the construction and development of the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.
In November, The Metals Company (TMC) announced the successful retrieval of 3,000 tonnes of potato-size polymetallic nodules from seafloor depths of over 4,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ).
How to mitigate against the spread of Invasive Aquatic Species (IAS) remains one of the most complex and pressing challenges in the marine domain. So much so, in fact, that the United Nations Environmental Programme considers the growing prevalence of these so called “marine invasions” as one of the four greatest threats to marine and coastal ecosystems.
The speed of innovation is faster than ever, and marine industries are no exception to the global trends. In fact, they may even be among the fastest-evolving tech sectors on the planet. New digital technology drives new quality and quantity for data collection and analytics, the internet of things, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and advanced autonomous robotics.
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