Peruvian Submarines Set to Receive New Static Converters
a contract under the Peruvian Navy’s submarine modernization program.ECA Group signed a contract with the shipyard SIMA and the Peruvian Navy for the replacement of the 16 units of static converters 115V / 400Hz and 115V / 60Hz aboard four type-U209 v.1200 submarines: BAP Angamos (SS 31), BAP Antofagasta (SS 32), BAP Pisagua (SS 33) and BAP Chipana (SS 34).Peru decided to upgrade four of its Type 209 submarines in 2015 and commenced the nearly seven years long modernization program in 2017.The modernization work, which includes hull separation and modernizing or replacing the command and control
A Record-setting Journey to the Atacama Trench
sailed with. I’m very happy to have been part of this grand international adventure in search of new knowledge.”The oceanographic investigation, whose participants include researchers from Universidad de Concepción, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Universidad de Antofagasta, is being carried out thanks to the support of the Millennium Science Initiative (ICM), the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), the Chilean Navy, and private parties.The AuthorsKevin Hardy (right), founded Global Ocean Design LLC after retiring from the Scripps
Deep Secrets of the Slippery Eel Discovered
Atlantic Ocean, about 4500 km away from the European coastlines. In a multidisciplinary study recently published in the international journal “Current Biology”, biologists, geneticists and theoretical oceanographers at GEOMAR, together with colleagues from Hamburg, London, Belfast and Antofagasta (Chile), discovered a relationship between ocean currents and the variation in eel recruitment. The model simulation was run for 45 years, and in each of these years, the researchers seeded the Sargasso Sea with 8 million tiny drifting particles. “They represent the eel larvae which
February 2025
