Science & Technology

Available to download free of charge, Opportunities and Challenges: Introducing New LEO Networks to the Maritime Industry, offers an insightful overview of commercial shipping’s first movers in LEO network service use. It outlines the potential for positive impact of LEO network bandwidth on vessel operations and describes a “quantum leap for crew connectivity possibilities”.

On August 1, 2023, 18 ocean experts began their appointment as members of the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). The 18 ORAP members include representatives from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, ocean industries, state, tribal, territorial or local governments, and academia.

CGG, PGS and TGS, industry leaders of multi-client geoscience data, have announced the launch of new tiered offerings for Versal, the groundbreaking multi-client data ecosystem. This update gives the entire industry free access to Versal, representing the world's most comprehensive multi-client data coverage – all in one centralized location.

NBOSI specializes in designing and manufacturing semi-custom CTD sensors tailored to meet the specific requirements of autonomous subsea and surface ocean vehicles. Operators in the defense, offshore, and ocean research sectors can now harness research-quality data on ocean temperature, salinity, density, and sound velocity to optimize vehicle performance, navigation, and acoustic payload functionality.

On August 2, Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus sets sail on an expedition to explore deep-sea environments of ancient seamounts around Johnston Atoll. Located ~800 miles south of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM), this region contains some of the most pristine marine ecosystems on Earth, although large seafloor areas remain completely unexplored.

The UK’s leading ocean research institution, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), and Subsea7, a global leader in delivering offshore projects and services for the energy industry, are proud to have received endorsement from the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development for their BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance^®.

Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) are investigating improvements to cost effective real-time marine water quality monitoring solutions, using AI modeling to help visualize and predict events.

BlueFloat Energy has selected Global Maritime’s OPSIM software in order to simulate construction, operation and decommissioning activities for their offshore wind projects. The ability to simulate various complex scenarios will allow BlueFloat Energy to optimize their projects delivery strategies and better control associated risks.

Smart Maritime Network, a leading platform for digital transformation in the maritime industry, is pleased to announce the launch of the Standardised Data Innovation Challenge 2023 (SDIC’23) in collaboration with ClassNK.

Aberdeen-based process safety firm, Salus Technical, has successfully launched a working prototype of its artificial intelligence (AI) tool, HAZOP AI, which is designed for Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP).

Lhyfe, one of the world’s pioneers in green and renewable hydrogen production, has completed a first step in its work on ocean re-oxygenation with the publication, by IRD Brest, of a first scientific article on the results of the research carried out in recent months.

On the west coast of North America, an earthquake of enormous magnitude is to be expected in the near future. Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where an oceanic plate slides under the North American plate into the Earth’s mantle, an earthquake and related tsunami could hit the region on any given day. To better assess the hazard, researchers led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel are studying tectonic setting and seismic activity off Vancouver Island where the seismogenic zone is suspected to be.