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 &...

Seatrec, a renewable energy company that harvests energy from temperature differences in the environment, has launched a project to develop an autonomous echosounder float powered...

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (Land Information New Zealand), in partnership with Environment Canterbury and the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai, has star...

The Greater Montréal Area completed Canada’s largest-ever riverine topobathymetric Lidar survey in response to two major flooding events within the last five years, wh...

Argeo AS, a survey and inspection company focused on subsea data acquisition and visualization, has selected Eelume’s autonomous ‘snake robot’ to assist in their...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) will support maritime trade and economic growth in the Cayman Islands as it embarks on a new programme of seabed mapping surveys in November 2021,...

Ocean Exploration Trust’s ROVs Hercules and Argus were stranded on the seafloor recently, but were recovered thanks to cooperation from several ocean scie...

After nearly two decades of searching, NOAA Ocean Exploration, the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries' Maritime Heritage Program, the U.S. Coast Guard and a number of acade...

Singapore and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) launched the Joint IHO-Singapore Innovation and Technology Laboratory on 26 October 2021. The laboratory seeks to op...

FarSounder and NAVTOR have announced a new partnership through which FarSounder can include support for NAVTOR official ENC chart data in its base software package. FarSounder and...

The health of our oceans and the health of our planet are one and the same. Yet the link between how much we know about this environment and how we protect it is not always clear....

OceanWise has announced that, as of 1 November 2021, the RSOBIA toolbar is available free of charge. The software tool, which takes raster imagery and segments the data into geogra...

The Finnish dive team Badewanne has helped to complete the documentary Fluit, about the 17th-century Dutch fluyt shipwreck, The Swan, which they discovered at a depth of 85m (279ft...

Ocean Business 21 was the launch venue for Valeport’s new Bathy2, presented as an “exciting evolution in the collection of bathymetric data.” It was shown for the...

Sheets of ice stretch for miles and miles. Mountains and peaks reach with jagged arms straight for the heavens. Glacier walls and their offspring icebergs bob in the deep, cold wat...

Turkey’s marine operations company ARAS Marine has chosen for its expansive operations the deep-rated Saab Seaeye Falcon as a key underwater robotics resource. The versatilit...

Ocean Business 2021 gets underway today. The event, traditionally held in Southampton, UK, provides a platform where over 300 suppliers gather to showcase the latest products, tech...

iXblue has launched its first Remotely Operated Towed Vehicle (ROTV): FlipiX. Designed to be operated autonomously from an iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) or from a ligh...

Seatronics, the lead brand within Acteon’s electronics and tooling segment, has entered a global distribution agreement with French manufacturer RTSYS for its autonomous unde...

Kongsberg Maritime has announced the launch of Blue Insight, a powerful, cloud-based digital toolbox to enable high-end collection, visualization, contextualization, management and...

Underwater technology specialist MacArtney is launching the latest addition to the NEXUS multiplexer family at the biannual Ocean Business 2021 exhibition. Continuing a long tradit...

Teledyne Geospatial brings its latest advancements in bathymetric Lidar and ocean mapping software solutions to Ocean Business 2021, being held at the National Oceanography Centre,...

Irish-based international ocean data company, XOCEAN, has received an €8 million investment to accelerate its growth and deliver its ambitions. Valued in excess of €100 m...