For centuries, the Goodwin Sands – a 16km-long sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea off the coast of Kent, England – have posed a navigational threat to marine...

The sheer expanse of the deep sea and the technological challenges of working in an extreme environment make these depths difficult to access and study. Scientists know more about...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has strengthened its long-standing relationship with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) by enhancing its membership level from technical to strategi...

Poor visibility conditions have a huge impact on the environmental perception of autonomous robots. How can they still operate safely and reliably? In the new DeeperSense project,...

A five-metre zero-carbon uncrewed boat was welcomed to Penzance (Cornwall, UK) last weekend after 16 weeks in the Atlantic, where it spent time at the edge of the continental shelf...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released the Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for funded participation in the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastruc...

Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG) and DOF Subsea (DOF) have entered into a strategic alliance for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) services to the global offshore industry. The partn...

Combined long baseline (LBL) acoustic positioning and inertial navigation system (INS) software from Sonardyne has helped to support the latest phase of an offshore project off nor...

NEOM has announced extensive findings from a joint mission with the non-profit ocean exploration organization OceanX, following the most adventurous assessment of the northern Red...

Since 2019, Deep BV has been deployed in the Baltic Sea working for Fehmarn Belt Contractors I/S. Deep is performing a geophysical site investigation of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel tren...

Blue Ocean Seismic Services, an innovative marine seismic survey company, recently completed a series of passive and active sea trials in the North Sea using a DP2 class multi-purp...

Hexagon’s Geosystems division has announced a partnership with Airbus to integrate two Leica Chiroptera 4X bathymetric Lidar sensors for maritime surveillance into the C295 M...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a world-leading centre for polar science and operations, has added the iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) to its advanced robotic survey...

A researcher and crew at Middlebury College in Vermont are using bathymetric technologies to develop a map of the depths of Lake Champlain. Between 2012 and 2020, Professor Tom Man...

MacArtney has announced a change at the top for their Singapore office, serving the APAC area. Steen Frejo, the outgoing managing director of MacArtney’s regional hub in Sing...

Rovco, a UK-based leader in ROV and hydrographic services, recently announced the commencement of the second year of the subsea and hydrographic campaign on Beatrice, one of Scotla...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has selected Fugro to survey a 515km2 area over the Cayman Islands this month. The project will support updated nautical charting and improved coa...

NOAA has announced US$15.2M in funding for harmful algal bloom (HAB) research projects throughout U.S. coastal and Great Lakes waters. Investments in these projects represent a coo...

James Fisher Renewables (JF Renewables), a trusted technical and operations solutions provider to the offshore renewables industry, has completed the first part of a two-phase cont...

An ancient undersea volcano has been revealed by multibeam sonar, 280 kilometres southeast of Christmas Island and 3,100 metres below the sea surface. The discovery by CSIRO&r...

An increasing number of hydrographic and oceanographic surveys are carried out without a pilot aboard. The advantages of uncrewed vessels are multifold, and applications range from...

Saab Seaeye has agreed a deal to sell ten of its new electric Work Remotely Operated Vehicles (eWROV), including further options, to leading marine robotics company Ocean Infi...

Underwater obstacle avoidance technology from the maritime defence technology companies Sonardyne and Wavefront has been successfully demonstrated on board an extra-large, uncrewed...

LandScope Engineering’s multipurpose survey vessel Investigator has recently completed a marine geophysical survey in Looe Bay, Cornwall, UK, in support of breakwater and pie...

On 6 August 2020, the Professor Logachev survey ship set out from Kirkenes, Norway on course for Russian Arctic waters. Over the next three months, the ship and its crew sailed 6,5...

As the effort in pursuit of the complete map of the ocean floor accelerates, The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with...

Seven previously unknown wrecks have been discovered in the vicinity of Saaremaa during hydrographic surveys by the Estonian Transport Authority this year, in addition to the six w...

To advance the management and remediation of military munitions in underwater environments, ESTCP has recently funded several projects that focus on the demonstration of munitions...

Subsea pipelines are an integral component of offshore oil and gas production and are one of the most discussed topics in the subsea survey community. Ongoing inspection of these a...

Third-year Penn State Dickinson Law student Ryan Marr believes in taking advantage of opportunities that come his way. From studying in Tanzania to travelling to Bermuda, he says &...