Countless ships and aircraft were lost at sea in the two world wars. Many of these went down with a large amount of fuel and munitions onboard, not to forget...

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 navies. The contract was...

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...

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 by clean, sustainable energy. With...

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 started seabed surveying around Banks...

In collaboration with four French, Belgian and German geoscience laboratories, iXblue’s sonar systems division recently mobilized its SeapiX 3D multibeam echosounder and Echoes 10,000 sub-bottom profiler to image the Laacher...

Clouds trace out the islands of the Caribbean Sea in this photo taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station. Beyond the solar arrays and the docked Progress resupply vehicle, the multitoned waters of the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean frame the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and southern Florida. Clouds trace out the islands of the Caribbean Sea in this photo taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station. Beyond the solar arrays and the docked Progress resupply...

The multibeam echosounder (MBES) is used for various purposes, and MBES systems have become the standard instrument for bathymetric determination. However, new developments mean that MBES systems are no longer...

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

Valeport sensor technology has been selected by Ocean Infinity to provide sound velocity and bathymetric data for their pioneering Armada Fleet, the world’s most environmentally sustainable fleet of ocean-going, robotic...