Rather than a spinning propeller, the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) – just like dolphins and bats – uses sound to explore its environment. Operating underwater, the method works like...

Virginia Institute of Marine Science of Gloucester Point, VA, USA, awarded a contract to Meridien Maritime Reparation of Matane to construct a 93-foot research vessel. JMS Naval Architects designed the research vessel...

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) is issuing a call for abstracts leading to presentations on the VLIZ Marine Science Day, taking place on 3 March 2017 in Bruges, Belgium....

At the end of October 2016, the Central Dredging Association (CEDA) co-hosted a conference with the Portuguese Engineers Association (OE) in Lisbon, Portugal. The CEDA Iberian Conference: Dredging for Sustainable...

Lighthouse, a supplier of equipment for the Italian Navy, is involved in the International Support Group (ISG) programme for Lebanon. ISG is aimed at coordinating and developing training activities to...

Braveheart Shipping, The Netherlands, has assigned Javelin International to build the 'Javelin 25.25', big sister to the 'Javelin 22.22' delivered in 2012. With this new seaworthy and multifunctional work vessel, Braveheart is...

Bathymetric Lidar is the most effective and cost-efficient technology to capture both the land and sea floor simultaneously, in order to provide a continuous, detailed 3D elevation model along the...

Traditional solutions for generating electricity from the tides, where tidal turbines are installed on the seabed, require high-end offshore installation vessels and do not allow for easy access for maintenance....

Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs) are a great help in applications where either position stability is of great importance or where bridging (small) positioning gaps is a requirement. To understand INS,...

Advances in marine & terrestrial scanning survey techniques together with precise inertial navigation sensors, multi-sensor acquisition systems and cost-effective UAS photogrammetry allow hydrographic surveyors to undertake high-precision marine asset integrity...