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Deepsea Challenger a Hit in Navy Museum

The record-breaking manned submersible was brought to the Navy Yard to be with the Trieste, which is housed in the National Museum of the United States Navy.
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Norway Gift Ocean Survey Ship 'Noruega' to Portugal

Portugal’s new oceanographic survey vessel is to be donated by Norway and equipped by funding under the EEA Grants programme. The announcement was made recently by Portugal's Assunção Cristas,

China Submersible Sets to Sea

China's manned submersible 'Jiaolong', aboard its support ship 'Xiangyanghong-9', leaves Jiangyin on a marine science expedition. During the 103-day mission, the

Ocean Science and Exploration Focus on Capitol Hill

Explorer and director James Cameron will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, June 11, with Dr. Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

EdgeTech Awarded $2.5 Million Contract From NOAA

EdgeTech was awarded an IDIQ contract from NOAA with a ceiling of $2.5 million over five years beginning this June. The contract to provide acoustic release

Deep Ocean Trash Dump Located

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) find that trash is not only cluttering beaches, but is accumulating deep sea, notably in the Monterey Canyon.

Forewind Spends to Make North Sea Wind Zone a Reality

The latest seabed survey of the Dogger Bank offshore wind zone takes the cost of the Forewind consortium's spend on offshore surveys to almost £45 million. Since

C-Nav Launches Tide Measurement Package

C-Nav, a supplier of international GNSS Precise Point Positioning services, announced the launch of its latest GNSS Real-time tide measurement package, C-Tides.

Universities and Dive Teams use Underwater Metal Detectors

The University of California at Santa Barbara is one of many universities that are employing underwater metal detectors in their research programs. Hunter Lenihan

Sonardyne Aids NOC

Sonardyne International Ltd.’s Ranger 2 USBL acoustic positioning system played a role in the recent discovery of the world’s deepest known undersea volcanic vents

Geomatrix Buys Applied Acoustics’ Energy Source

Director Tom Nicols of Geomatrix took delivery of his company’s first CSP seismic energy source from Applied Acoustics at Ocean Business in Southampton. Geomatrix, based in Leighton Buzzard, U.

Latest Tide Measurement Suite Launched by C-Nav

US-based C-Nav Solutions launch its latest GNSS Real-time tide measurement package, C-Tides. The company says that its C-Tides suite combines the exceptional

DNV Wants Increased Focus on Plastic Degradation

DNV and WWF have announced ideas on how to develop a research concept vessel that can address the seemingly intractable problems associated with cleaning up the

American Climate Project Invests in Kongsberg Technology

Following a contract signed on May 15, 2013, echosounders from Kongsberg will play a part in the American Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), for the monitoring of subsea life along both U.

Drifter Buoys Launched from Warship

10 University of California, & Scripps Institute drifter buoys for meteorology & oceanographic observation released into the Pacific from 'USS Pearl Harbor' The

Guidance for NSF on National Ocean Research Priorities

Context Within the past decade, new science and technologies have led to breakthroughs and discoveries that have fundamentally altered our basic understanding

US, Canada, EU, Sign Atlantic Ocean Research Accord

The recently signed "Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation" concerns research into the workings of the Atlantic Ocean and its interaction with the Arctic.

Exploring the Abyss

GEOMAR & theABYSS AUV Study the S. Atlantic Seafloor  For most of human history, the size and depth of the Earth’s oceans have made it nearly impossible for surveyors

Shipwrecks Pose US Sea Pollution Threat

New NOAA report presented to the US Coast Guard examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks in US waters. The report finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.

New NOAA ROV On Ocean Trials

The 6,000-meter-rated remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system will be tested from 'Okeanos Explorer' in the 2013 field season. Dave Lovalvo, project manager for

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