OpenStreetMap is well-known as a crowd-sourced mapping project. The maps now also are integrated in Bing Maps and other application. As a derivation, since 2009 OpenSeaMap has been started and...

The high capacity 3D vessel M/V Geowave Endeavour was delivered from Fosen Yard and taken on a 7 year time-charter from Volstad Maritime in July 2008. The vessel mobilised for...

Heerema Marine Contractors expects the Basic Design of its new build crane vessel to be completed in early 2009. Given the global economic developments and its effects on the international...

Rear-admiral Steve Richie, former Hydrographer to the Royal Navy and popular columnist for Hydro international, has been honoured by the UK Hydrographic Office naming a building after him. The Richie...

Hydro 2023 took place from 7 to 9 November in the beautiful port city of Genoa in Italy. Organizers of this year’s edition of the hydrographic conference were the International...

Seafloor mapping during a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition has unveiled an underwater mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in international waters off Guatemala. The...

Modern official electronic nautical charts of the entire coast and main ports of Albania have been produced and made accessible to professional shipping. The United Nations convention on Safety of...

Assets on the seabed, such as offshore wind turbines, natural resource extraction systems and underwater cables, serve as critical subsea infrastructure. To efficiently build, monitor, protect and maintain these assets,...

The most recent information update in the IADC series of concise, easy-to-read "management summaries", giving overviews of essential information on specific dredging and maritime construction subjects is Facts About Building...

The Peruvian Navy, Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation is realising a hydrographic and oceanographic vessel, designed and built by Freire shipyard in Vigo, Spain. Its structural design achieves the Polar...