Honouring Oman’s hydrographic journey
Stretching over more than 3,000 kilometres, Oman’s coastline runs along the Arabian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is a maritime landscape of islands, bays, co...
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The race to map the ocean floor: tackling the remaining 70%
What will it take to map the remaining 70% of our planet’s seafloor in just five years? That’s the challenge facing the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, a g...
Canada’s pioneering role in hydrography
Manon Larocque oversees hydrographic efforts across one of the most geographically vast and diverse maritime regions in the world. Here, she shares her perspective on Canada’...
Making subsea history by locating Endurance
In March 2022, almost precisely 100 years after the burial of famed British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, his legendary ship Endurance was finally located at the bottom of the...
Do We Order a Ticket for New Orleans?
Spearhead is again organising an Oceanology International (OI), one of the more successful conferences and exhibition events. The 2003 event is to be held in New Orleans, USA - one...
GLONASS, GPS and GALILEO Present and Future Aspects
Global Navigation and Hydrography is the theme of this issue. GALILEO has received a ‘green light’, GPS has planned some important improvements and GLONASS has entered on a signifi...
The Romantic Profession
This month’s interviewee has over recent years dedicated his time to addressing problems in oceanography, as well as history and the contemporary state of high-level training for s...
Crossing Thresholds in Seafloor Mapping
US Hydro 2007 Conference takes place this month in Norfolk, Virginia, organised by the Hydrographic Society of America. It will be the eleventh event of its kind, celebrating the t...
The Winners Are…
Every five years an International Hydrographic Conference (IHC) of all Member States (at present 77) of the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO), represented by their Hydr...
A Farewell to Times Past
We have all enjoyed the column entitled ‘As it Was’, contributed since the very first issue of Hydro international by Admiral Steve Ritchie. The piece has always been very much app...
