The US space agency NASA has successfully pushed the asteroid Dimorphos out of its original orbit in the universe, according to a recent announcement. The space rock was hit 11 mil...

In 1972, The Limits to Growth saw the light of the day, a report published by the Club of Rome. The message: to keep the Earth liveable, we must control economic growth. To think t...

While online data acquisition is of course of the utmost importance in hydrography, technological developments mean that modern surveyors also need to know about data science, mach...

We had prepared an extra thick edition of Hydro International for you, full of feature articles, columns, an interview and news from and a preview of Oceanology International 2020....

The Chinese Dragon rears its head in many fields of the world economy and despite the latest reports of a slowdown of growth, it is interesting to see the development in hydrograph...

Crowdsourcing could be very helpful in surveying the seas and therefore a big help in the gigantic task that lies ahead for the hydrographic community. Immense amounts of the water...

Energy experts have been predicting an end to carbon-based energy for years now. Although it is probably possible to drain our energy out of oil and gas fields for decades to come,...

Every now and then you have to look back to understand the present and future. This might seem almost too logical to start this editorial with but at times these old truths become...

Over half of the accidents taking place in merchant shipping are due to navigational errors, often of human origin, and the number of accidents is increasing. It is therefore fully...

Two famous ship wrecks play an important role in this issue of Hydro International: the Titanic and the Costa Concordia. The maiden voyage of the brand new White Star Line ship Tit...

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Extended Continental Shelf offered ample opportunities for coastal states to ‘claim’ even...

Stakeholders in marine states and coastal regions need to include hydrographic surveys in their strategic plans and investments because the return on investment is at least 5 to 1...

If you don't need it, don't buy it. That sounds like a very sensible attitude in times of crisis when money isn't available in abundance and people have to watch their wallets. On...

Around the world, Hydrographic Offices, Societies and the International Hydrographic Organization celebrated World Hydrography Day on 21 June to raise public awareness for the vita...

It's a sad anniversary. It's slightly more than a year after the disastrous blowout after the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. It quickly became cl...

After a long and cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere, I’m looking forward to spring again. A warm breeze is already blowing in from the Caribbean with this issue’s i...

This is the year before mandatory carriage of ECDIS will come into force. From 2012 onwards, vessels sailing under SOLAS regulations will be obliged to carry ECDIS on board. In ph...

Right across from my desk I have put up a beautiful old hydrographic chart of the Zuiderzee. It's a facsimile by the Dutch Hydrographic Office of an 1852 chart, improved in 1859 an...

Fascination for the North Pole is as old as humanity itself, and expeditions have been setting out for the Pole ever since the early twentieth century. Many men dreamed in their yo...

I'm sure many of our readers have their own Facebook page, Twitter account or even MySpace corner on the web. In the online world it's important to link up. The features of linking...

An inherent value of hydrography that governments and other public authorities often forget, is the economic one. They are not to blame, the economic value of hydrography is a deri...

None of us can anymore imagine hydrographic work without satellite positioning. Improvements in performance since the first GPS satellite was launched on 22nd February 1978 have fi...

We have just entered a new year and a new decade. What does the New Year bring? A bimonthly Hydro international with even more in-depth articles and ever faster news; videos and ne...

Reports over the past few months have heralded the end of recession in more and more countries. There has even been news of modest economic growth. Profits are posted in unexpecte...

Our July/August issue carried a news feature in the direct aftermath of the Air France Flight AF 447 crash. It seems this article was highly appreciated and, given the many comment...

This month's theme is hydrography and living resources. However, you won't find any articles on the subject in this magazine. A bit strange coming from me, who for years worked in...

Although many say the renewable energy sector is still in its infancy, the industry is quickly evolving. This Hydro international therefore carries a full Hydro energy special. Wh...

This is the last page to go to press each month, so I can make it apt. Thus I was planning to tell you a juicy tale of my spooky night on a sailing vessel taking refuge from a gi...

A few months ago I drew attention to the seizure of commercial vessels by armed groups from Somalia. Last year saw more than a hundred such attempts, a third ending in success for...