The German Maritime Museum and the Alfred Wegener Institute will host a two-day conference in April 2023 to address the issue of underwater munitions as an environmental hazard. The conference...

Marine archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm, Sweden, have uncovered the wreck of the 17th-century warship Äpplet. Launched in 1629, the ship was built by the same...

The mysterious Black Sea has many secrets yet to be discovered. This research presents the results of the biggest UXO survey project performed on the Romanian Black Sea coast after...

In the summers of 2021 and 2022, an iXblue DriX USV was deployed to try and locate the missing wreck of the sunken French fishing trawler Ravenel. The vessel disappeared...

The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before the ocean liner sank has been identified in the Irish Sea. Using state-of-the art multibeam sonar, researchers at Bangor...

Manually examining the seafloor for objects such as wrecks requires a great deal of time and labour, both at sea and in the office. As time is a limited and...

The marine research vessel Aranda recently surveyed the southeast side of the Finnish island of Utö. A preliminary investigation of the tugboat Simson, which sank in 1978, is underway for...

An archaeological mission under the auspices of UNESCO has concluded its 14-day exploration of the Skerki Bank (Tunisia) and the Sicilian Channel (Italy) in the Mediterranean. For the first time,...

Ireland’s multipurpose marine research vessel RV Tom Crean has entered service equipped with Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) underwater positioning technology from ocean science company Sonardyne. Delivered in July, the 52.8m-long vessel...

Marine geoscience and offshore construction support service provider NextGeo has been carrying out various works as part of its contract with TenneT TSO for UXO survey services in support of...