The ability to harness ocean wave energy is a rapidly evolving field that marine engineers are refining to provide reliable, cost-effective maritime energy generation and storage while enabling new forms of offshore data and communication services.
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system.
Targeted removals can be effective in suppressing the number of invasive lionfish found within protected coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.
This month, scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will join a team of marine scientists from the iAtlantic project on a month-long collaborative expedition to investigate the ecosystems and natural processes in the deep sea around the Cabo Verde islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.
As the global offshore wind energy market continues to mature, smart new ways to boost operational efficiency are emerging. One of the most extraordinary is a transition to remote operations using technology which just a few years ago would have been considered a futuristic dream.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ (KHI) has chosen a suite of subsea navigation, positioning and communications technologies from marine energy, defense and science company Sonardyne to navigate, track and control its first commercial SPICE autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
The technology group Wärtsilä will provide engine generating sets, which will run on a hydrogen and natural gas blend, for Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) ‘Floating Living Lab’ (FLL), the first-of-its-kind offshore floating testbed in Singapore. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in December 2020 by Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of Keppel O&M.
Oceaneering International, Inc., and DDK Positioning Limited have entered into an agreement for the provision of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) augmentation service and all associated software and hardware supporting Oceaneering’s C-Nav® Positioning Solutions group offerings.
New Zealand signed up to a global seabed mapping project, to map the world’s entire ocean floor by 2030. So far, 20 per cent of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards.
Ocean Floor Geophysics, Inc (OFG) has completed the purchase from PGS of the hardware, software and intellectual property associated with the PGS towed streamer Controlled Source Electromagnetic System (CSEM).
The Peristera shipwreck, off the Greek island of Alonnisos in the Aegean Sea, is described as ‘the Parthenon of shipwrecks’.
BIRNS is proud to announce impressive new performance characteristics in its acclaimed BIRNS Millennium™ 1V RF connector series, and the addition of all titanium connector components to the entire BIRNS Millennium line.
Sercel has made its first major sale of its recently launched GPR300 seabed nodal solution to BGP Inc., a worldwide major geophysical service provider. The sale includes 18,000 nodes that will be deployed in Q4 2021 on a large-scale, long-term, multi-vessel operation in the Middle East region.
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