An AUD200,000 CSIRO coastal glider is bound for Queensland, Australia, to be deployed in Moreton Bay to investigate the impact of the recent flooding on marine ecosystems. Dr Andy Steven...

EvoLogics S2C underwater acoustic modems have been successfully deployed at the new MoMAR observatory (Monitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge), a part of the European Seas Observatory NETwork (ESONET) offshore the Azores...

Chevron North Sea Ltd has contracted Fugro Survey, UK, to undertake geophysical, geotechnical and environmental surveys for the potential Rosebank development project in UKCS blocks 205/1, 213/26 and 213/27, West...

The names Augustus Petermann, Victor Hensen, Carl Chun, Fritz Spiess, Alfred Merz, and Gunter Dietrich are hardly household names. Even today their names are little known in the geographic, oceanographic,...

Following the Spanish–American War, the Philippine Islands became a US Protectorate. Consequently, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey commenced providing this vast archipelago with modern nautical charts. An assignment in...

Research vessels are by no means ad hoc inventions. The following story describes the three-year circumnavigation by the Italian corvette Vettor Pisani that successfully combined military and national interests of...

General Robotics is shipping DeepLive 2.0, its real-time data input module. The first customer is DeepOcean AS for its new Inspection, Maintenance & Repair (IMR) vessel, the Edda Fauna which...

Designing an Integrated Quality and Safety Management System (IQSMS) for Shipping Operations Celik, M. (2009). Safety Science 47(5): pp. 569-577.   As merchant shipping is defined by the International Maritime...

The Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre describe their motivation for building their own Smart ROV based on previous survey experience and the preparations they are now undertaking to integrate...

Olaus Magnus, a Swedish Catholic priest, had for some years been employed collecting funds for the Church in the far north. During his extensive travels he made copious notes and...