One of the key findings of the recent annual hydrographic industry survey conducted by Hydro International is the boom in renewable energy as the indisputable driving force behind...

PGE and Ørsted are getting ready to conduct the third stage of the geotechnical survey for the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm. This will involve a detailed check of the sea...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has signed a new three-to-five-year framework contract for satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) with EOMAP. In the course of a competitive tender, t...

A first delivery of three small AUV units took place in January 2022 in the naval base of Frederikshavn, Denmark. This delivery is part of the recently signed framework agreement b...

NOAA hydrographic survey ships and contractors are preparing for the 2022 hydrographic survey season in U.S. coastal waters and beyond. The ships collect bathymetric data (i.e. map...

RWE Renewables has appointed ABPmer to support the design of the Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. The marine consultancy company is assessing the sediment mobi...

OceanWise has, through competitive tender, been awarded the contract to supply, install and maintain Marine Environmental Monitoring Systems (MEMS) globally as part of an initial t...

A deep canyon at the front of the Vanderford Glacier in East Antarctica has been mapped for the first time by acousticians on board RSV Nuyina. The previously unknown canyon, more...

As media partner, we are excited to share the brilliant news for the global ocean technology and hydrographic community that the Oceanology International (Oi) exhibition and confer...

In a first for Ireland, an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) was launched by XOCEAN off County Louth in the last week of January 2022, to undertake an environmental survey of the seabe...

Teledyne Geospatial has announced the sale of its next-generation bathymetric Lidar CZMIL SuperNova to leading professional services firm Dewberry. Dewberry is the f...

Fugro is building a remote operations centre (ROC) in the company’s St. John’s office, located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The ultra-modern co...

Kongsberg Maritime has announced that Ocean Infinity has signed an order for six HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) rated to 3,000 metres depth. The vehicles are equipped...

Autonomous operations – in particular automation and remote control – can help achieve low-carbon hydrographic operations while saving time and costs. However, the adva...

Metocean and environmental data measurement specialist MSM Ocean and marine technology company Sonardyne have agreed to team up on the supply of a complete solution for warning coa...

Saildrone recently launched three uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) on a mission to sail through the North Atlantic’s swiftest current: the Gulf Stream. For six months, these...

On 15 January, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami and triggering tsunami alerts around the...

Fugro has secured a new contract with Energinet to undertake cable route surveys for the North Sea Energy Island project. The Energy Island will serve as an offshore power plant, d...

Wreck search is a special application of hydrographic surveying. Countless sunken ships – or what’s left of them – have been discovered over the years, often by m...

Woolpert has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its ‘Airborne Topo-Bathy Lidar System and Methods Thereof’. A Lidar sensor syste...

Ifremer, the French research institute for ocean science, has received its new synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) from iXblue. It will equip the institute’s new 6,000m-rated auto...

In our profession, object detection takes the form of hydrographic surveys that are carried out to detect wrecks, anchors, pipelines and ammunition. The latter is better known as U...

On 6 January, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town in South Africa for an expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventive measures allow th...

Last month, the presentation ceremony of the first two nautical charts co-produced by the Hydrographic Service of the Lebanese Navy and the Italian Hydrographic Institute took plac...

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions division has successfully integrated its advanced autonomy solutions with Sea Machines Robotics’ SM300 autonomy produ...

Hexagon, a global leader in digital reality solutions, today announced R-evolution’s efforts to map the threatened seagrass meadows of the Caribbean islands, beginning with t...

University of South Florida marine scientists launched their first field mission in Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico to test a new approach to mapping shallow coastal areas –...

In 1910, the Navy steamer tug known as the USS Nina sank off the coast of Delaware and Maryland with more than 30 people aboard. Since that time, the official location of the shipw...

Active sonar suite and bottom navigation technology from Kongsberg Maritime has been selected for installation on Type 212CD class submarines for both the Norwegian and German navi...

The Hydrographic Office of the Polish Navy has purchased iXblue’s DriX uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) through the company’s local partner Thesta. The USV will be advanc...