International experts met in London, UK, from 23 to 25 July 2013 to review the growing problems in the marine environment caused by micro-plastics – tiny pieces of plastic or...

Cornwall, UK, is synonymous with tin mining, having built its fortunes in previous centuries extracting and producing the metal for export around the world. A new and exciting project has...

Although the marine resources in Norwegian offshore waters are quite intensively exploited by primarily the petroleum industry and fisheries, the knowledge about seafloor habitats is scarce. Any destructive consequences from...

Wave-energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has released the results from its environmental monitoring and assessment programme undertaken as part of the recent deployment of its commercial-scale CETO unit (CETO 3)...

OceanServer Technology, Canada, has received an order from Wentworth Environmental Services (WES) for a base 42 Iver2 AUV equipped with Klein 3500 side scan sonar. The system is expected to...

Bathymetry is largely used for measuring ocean and sea depth but there are also many other different applications in lakes, dams, rivers and fresh water basins. Logistic constraints as well...

MMT (Marin Mätteknik, Sweden) was awarded the 2011 Mareano survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service. The survey commenced in April and was finished in August 2011. It included bathymetric...

A voyage to find out what happens to seabed fauna in a deep-water trawling area if you leave it undisturbed several years got underway on 9th May 2011. The RRS...

CARIS has been awarded a National Survey Storage System project by Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands) to find out what happens to seabed fauna in a deep-water trawling area if you leave it...

The world’s biggest submarine pipeline plough, PL3, arrived on 8th February in the Baltic Sea on the deck of mother ship Far Samson. The subsea plough will be used to...