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Back in mid-December 2022, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into space, from where it will observe huge swathes of ocean and surface water in unprecedented detail.

February will see the return of Subsea Expo, the world’s largest subsea exhibition and conference.

Ghost gear is lost or discarded fishing equipment—nets, ropes, and abandoned traps or pots—that continues to fish long after being lost or discarded, sometimes for years. The unfortunate result is the quiet killing of fish, turtles, lobster, crabs, and entangling mammals such as seals, whales, and dolphins.

The scale by which twenty-first-century advances in ocean technology have transformed the programmatic study of our planet’s oceans can often be difficult to contextualize.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial neural networks (ANN) were conceptualized in the 1940s as automated systems inspired by the neural networks that constitute a biological brain. The system is based on “artificial neurons” that interconnect similarly to a biological system.

Despite having spent years in the Ocean Energy sector, we at GRi Simulations owe our soft hands and dry socks to having been in the ancillary world of ROV simulation, and this experience is what informs our perspective on this topic.