With uniting of German Nations into the 'Kaiserreich' in 1871 marine affairs became a dominant factor in foreign policy. Already in 1861 the Prussian Naval Ministry had established a Hydrographic...

On 2 November 1902 the Antarctic research ship, Scotia, sailed quietly down the lower Clyde from its berth in the yards of the Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., on its way to...

The Island of Bonaire in the Southwest Caribbean, a Marine Protected Area since 1979, has one of the most pristine coral reefs in the region. The last synoptic survey of...

Dr. Robert Ballard and an interdisciplinary team of scientists will explore the fascinating undersea landscape of NOAA's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). One of the 13 U.S. national...

Autonomous vehicles from the company founded by AUV pioneer Doug Webb have recently made a historic 2600km voyage from New Jersey to Halifax and successfully drawn power from ocean thermal...

Marine GeoSolutions (Pty) Ltd was contracted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa to undertake a multibeam bathymetric survey of the northern KwaZulu-Natal submarine canyon system to define...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$2.8 million contract for the initial design of the Replacement Human Occupied Vehicle (RHOV), a next generation three-person Deep Submergence...

M. K. Services has appointed Dziga Walker (Ziggy) its team in Marine Sales. With over 8 years experience within the marine sector, Ziggy has worked both as a physical oceanographer...

Seafoundation will open its Maritime Knowledge Centre for sub-sea and sub-ocean studies Seabase in Kamperland (The Netherlands). Seabase is independent and is founded after the Annual Programme of National Park...

We have experienced much more technical variation in hydrographic affairs during the past ten years than during the whole of the past century. For example, single beam and multibeam systems,...