A former Naval Aviator and senior Cat A Hydrographer, Jean Laporte is currently Chairman of the IHO Hydrographic Dictionary Working Group and ARGANS managing director. He has spent most of...

Certification is the next step in your hydrographic and offshore surveying career, according to experienced hydrographic surveyor Bruce Calderbank. The Canadian Hydrographer Certification Scheme (CHCS) is a global scheme just...

While undertaking documentation dives on some supposedly World War I or II wrecks at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, Badewanne divers descended on one of the biggest surprises...

A First World War German submarine has been surveyed for the first time since its loss in 1917. Sophisticated scanning techniques and deep-sea video footage have revealed a large hole...

The UK Hydrographic Office has announced the appointment of Rear Admiral Peter Sparkes, the current UK National Hydrographer and Deputy Chief Executive, to the position of Acting Chief Executive and...

Following the postponement of the IHO Assembly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IHO Secretariat initiated a remote voting procedure to fill the position of IHO Director, which will become...

“It wasn’t always easy being a black woman in my early days as an oceanographer,” says Dawn Wright, chief scientist at a worldwide operating company specialized in mapping and spatial...

Captain George Galdorisi (USN, retired) is a career naval aviator whose 30 years of active duty service included four command tours and five years as a carrier strike group chief...

Kyle Goodrich, President, TCarta Marine, Denver, Colorado, US, has had a 19-year career in geospatial services. Since founding TCarta in 2008, Kyle has led numerous global geospatial product research and...

The UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has announced the appointment of Catherine Allen as Associate Director for Government International & Public Engagement. Catherine will join NOC in June and brings a huge...