The pilot of a small aicraft that crashed about thirty miles from NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson last week was rescued from the sea. The NOAA vessel was conducting mapping surveys...

NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson is on a three-month survey of the seafloor off the coast of New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, as part of a multi-year effort to update...

The wreckage of Air France Flight 447 has been found by AUV some 3,900 metres, or nearly 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. A search team led...

Operational oceanography played a key role in the safe rescue of all 155 people on board US Airways Flight 1549 which crashed into the Hudson River on 15 January 2009,...

Restricted operating life, limited range and bearing ambiguity in deep water are the known limitations of current locator beacons mounted on aircraft. These problems raise important questions: what is the...

Our July/August issue carried a news feature in the direct aftermath of the Air France Flight AF 447 crash. It seems this article was highly appreciated and, given the many...

With the growth of air traffic following the First World War, it was inevitable that aircraft would be lost over the oceans. It was equally inevitable that hydrographers would be...

Incostas has detected an aircraft that crashed in the Carribean Sea on 4th January 2008 with the help of their GeoAcoustics Deep Tow. The aircraft, carrying 14 people on route...

Three Glonass global navigation have been successfully launched aboard a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur space centre in Khazakstan. The Proton K rocket, which has been on the launch pad...

Air France flight 447, a scheduled passenger service from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to Paris (France), went missing on 1 June 2009 over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people onboard....