A research campaign that aims to find the wreck of the Ravenel fishing trawler, which disappeared in January 1962 off the coast of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (France), began on 23 Ma...

The IHO, the International Hydrographic Organization, will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Monday 21 June. Established in 1921, it coordinates the activities of national hydrogr...

Swathe Services, the UK-based hydrographic survey services company, has recently expanded its equipment rental pool capability with a suite of GeoAcoustics products. James Williams...

A Fugro-led consortium that includes AS Mosley and the University of Strathclyde has designed a mooring line fatigue tracker that safely and cost-effectively monitors offshore floa...

Seabed B.V., which specializes in high-quality equipment for offshore surveying and dredging, has selected Velodyne Lidar’s Puck sensors for its Lidar mobile mapping sys...

Atlas Professionals and Inosys have announced the signing of a global strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to combine Atlas’ marine industry-leading resourcing and HR...

Rovco has announced the launch of a new hydrographic services division, Rovco Survey Solutions, building on the company’s experience as a leader in asset integrity and ROV pr...

Ocean Infinity, the marine robotics company, has acquired maritime services company Ambrey. Ambrey’s team of maritime professionals delivers a range of bespoke offshore servi...

On 14 May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos Explorer departed from Port Canaveral in Florida on a two-week expedition led by NOAA Ocean Explo...

As part of the Five Deeps Expedition team, scientists from the British Geological Survey have surveyed in detail the deepest reaches of the Java and South Sandwich trenches. New se...

Sercel has announced the launch of GPR300, a new nodal seismic acquisition solution especially designed for deployment in shallow waters down to depths of 300 metres. Developed in...

MMT has been awarded the 2021 export cable route surveys for the Beacon Wind offshore wind farm. The project is led by the company’s team based in Providence, Rhode Island: M...

Kraken Robotics has announced that Dive Technologies recently completed successful sea trials of Kraken’s Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar (MINSAS 120), integrated into Div...

The German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) is participating in IHO-led efforts to increase knowledge of the ocean and has shared high-resolution depth...

Israeli drone service provider ERELIS recently conducted a number of pilot projects using a drone equipped with a single-beam echosounder in the Mediterranean and Dead Sea. The ref...

Norwegian researchers are working on projects that are providing the groundwork for a revolution in aquaculture. As a small part of this revolution, Nortek’s DVL is helping t...

Mapping shallow, nearshore areas can be a challenging job. The waters along coasts and islands are important to human activities, but when it comes to mapping these areas there is...

U.S. Geological Survey scientists have developed and made available a new mapping resource that can identify the most vulnerable marshes across the contiguous U.S. through a combin...

Global subsea services company Modus Subsea Services has been awarded a contract to perform survey services in connection with a new cable corridor requirement in Ofotfjorden, nort...

The newly created rental and services company WAMS has announced that it has added iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) to its pool of equipment. Available for WAMS cust...

Energy, defence and science technology company Sonardyne has launched a new, entirely portable configuration of its shallow-water Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) system Micro-Ranger 2....

Hundreds of satellite images spanning over 25 years have been compiled to show the evolution of Greece’s ever-changing coastlines. For decades, coastal areas have been subjec...

Bathymetric Lidar is a technique that is used to capture geospatial data of coastlines and waterbodies. The method has the potential to facilitate the fast and efficient&...

The Danish Geodata Agency recently announced that it is ramping up the pace of its electronic nautical charting of south-western Greenland. Following a successful pilot project in...

Satellites are amazing tools for observing the Earth and the big blue ocean that covers more than 70% of our planet. By remotely sensing from their orbits high above the Earth, sat...

Autonomous underwater vehicles have become versatile tools for exploring the seas. However, they can be disruptive to the environment or have trouble travelling through confined sp...

Van Oord, a Dutch family-owned company with over 150 years of experience as an international marine contractor, is investing in innovative digital solutions that create value for i...

CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA), a U.S.-based marine environmental consulting firm, has revealed details of the company’s latest Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) acquisition, an SR-...

Ongoing collaboration between INFOMAR and the National Monuments Service continues to produce exciting results on Ireland’s underwater cultural heritage. Last autumn, the Geo...

Ocean Infinity, the marine robotics company, has announced that it has acquired software engineering specialists Abyssal. Abyssal develops and implements proprietary software solut...