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Floating Titanium Lattice Could Out-Perform Steel and Plastic

Australian engineers have created a strong and lightweight titanium material that floats in water, even after severe damage…
TDI-Brooks R/V Proteus Completes Shipyard Period, Returns to Service

TDI-Brooks’ multi-use oceanographic research vessel, the R/V PROTEUS has completed its full-term ABS shipyard period in Las…
Orange, Free to Fund Subsea Cable Connecting La Reunion-South Africa

French telecoms operators Orange and Free have teamed up to fund a €93 million ($107.82 million) subsea cable connecting…
Kongsberg Maritime to Unveil New Propulsion Solution at SMM 2026

Kongsberg Maritime invites members of the press to join the company at SMM Hamburg on Wednesday September 2, for the unveiling…

Offshore Energy

Omega Subsea Sets Up New Operation Base in Western Norway

Subsea services and ROV technology provider Omega Subsea has entered into a long-term agreement to establish operations at Hilleren Navy Supply Park in Mathopen, adjacent to Haakonsvern in Western Norway.The company will become a strategic subsea partner and a key tenant at the site, where it will develop a new operational base comprising workshop, warehouse and office facilities.Omega Subsea provides services and technology within ROV operations…

Hydrographic

BMT Joins Seabed 2030

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced a new partnership with BMT to share expertise and best practice, and to engage with the wider geospatial and maritime communities in support of Seabed 2030’s mission to accelerate ocean mapping.Operating from an international network of offices across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, BMT’s work spans maritime design, technical consultancy and digital innovation supporting safer…

Ocean News

Sharks Fitted with Sensors to Help Hurricane Predictions

From the killer shark of "Jaws" to the tornado-tossed predators of the "Sharknado" movies, films long have portrayed sharks as objects of summer fear. But when a shark cuts through the waters off the U.S. East Coast, it now may be doing more than hunting. It may also be gathering data that helps scientists understand the potential intensity of a hurricane before it makes landfall.University of Delaware…

Subsea Defense

VIDEO: Saildrone USV Fires JAGM Missiles

[video courtesy Saildrone]Saildrone and Lockheed Martin demonstrated a new armed autonomous naval capability during RIMPAC 2026, successfully launching two Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) from a Saildrone Surveyor unmanned surface vessel (USV) off Hawaii.The live-fire exercise marked the first missile launch from a Saildrone platform, moving the commercially derived USV beyond its established intelligence…

Vehicle News

AAM Delivers R/V Osprey to UNCW

All American Marine (AAM) announced the delivery of a 78-foot aluminum research vessel commissioned by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Following successful sea trials at AAM’s Bellingham, WA facility, R/V Osprey has arrived in Florida and is currently making her way up the coast to her home port of Wilmington, NC. There, she will support UNCW’s faculty, students, and research partners conducting scientific and educational missions along the Mid-Atlantic, U.S.

New Products

Sonardyne Expands SPRINT-Nav into Family of Navigation Products

Sonardyne, a Kraken Robotics company, has expanded its industry-leading SPRINT-Nav technology into a complete, scalable family of underwater navigation systems for marine robots, built around a single shared architecture.For more than a decade, SPRINT-Nav has combined the key sensors needed for underwater navigation in a single pre-calibrated instrument. This has helped subsea vehicle teams around the world to save space…

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August marks the annual hydrographic e-magazine and the opportunity to highlight some of the global research underway in our world’s oceans. We explore hydrographic data, climate simulations, subsea networks and cybersecurity, camera technology, autonomous operations, sonar and survey solutions, as well as ROVs.

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