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ROVOP Partners Up with Boskalis to Boost Subsea Services Across Energy Industry

carry out diverless tasks, such as cutting and recovery.“This collaboration not only strengthens our capabilities but aligns perfectly with the addition of the CSV Northern Ocean to our fleet, further solidifying our commitment to the North Sea and evolving needs of our clients,” said Stuart Cameron, Boskalis Subsea Services Managing Director.“Boskalis Subsea Services are known for their strength in vessel and diving based service delivery and we believe our ROV service, delivered by our world class personnel, will be complementary and combine to offer a market leading solution to the

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Shell Joins Wave-Powered Subsea Project

the mission of finding, screening, testing, and developing marine renewable energy technologies to achieve more value with lower emissions and help build the critical energy infrastructure for the Blue Economy to grow and thrive.Harnessing the 'Mocean' of the Ocean - Video Interview with Cameron McNatt, CEO of Mocean EnergyThey will now join project leads Mocean Energy and Verlume, alongside industry players Baker Hughes, Serica Energy, Harbour Energy, Transmark Subsea, PTTEP, TotalEnergies and the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC).Joining RSP offers Shell access to all data and results

Harnessing the 'Mocean' of the Ocean

Garnering power from ocean waves is a generation behind the progress of offshore wind, but Mocean Energy, led by founder and managing director Cameron McNatt, is aiming to help offshore companies power up it’s offshore and seafloor assets with its Blue Star system. A 10kW Blue Star prototype now has more than 14 months of operational experience under its belt, and the goal for 2024 is completion of that trial and continuing the path toward commercialization.

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Mocean Energy Raises Funds for Blue Star Wave Energy Technology

Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney as early as 2025.“This new equity investment is significant for Mocean Energy – not just in the quantum invested, but in the additional strengths and specialist expertise our new shareholders bring,” says Mocean Energy managing director and co-founder Cameron McNatt.“MOL has a global footprint in the marine transport sector and MOL PLUS will help us access MOL Group’s significant resources and expertise to accelerate our commercialization.“Katapult Ocean invests solely in technologies which will have a positive impact on our oceans

Figure 1. Stony Brook University PhD candidate, Ashley Nicoll, assembles the interior mount for a GoPro Hero/CamDo Blink controller time lapse underwater camera. The springs are used to gently press the camera against the interior face of the acrylic viewport. Read about Ashley’s MS project in Lander Lab #2, MTR, Vol. 65, #3, March/April 2022. (Photo by Kevin Hardy, Global Ocean Design.)

MTR100: Underwater Cameras, Lights and Ocean Landers

rotator, or mounted to a 2-axis pan-and-tilt. Vehicles such as ROVs and AUVs change views using the mobility of the vehicle itself. Landers can be made to pirouette on the seafloor, rotating up to 720°, to capture an entire panorama of its landing site. This was dramatically shown during James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE Expedition with DOV MIKE in the Sirena Deep of the Mariana Trench in 2012.ExperimentationLandereans can inexpensively explore camera systems by building their own. The path to discovery and understanding can begin with a simple system based on a board camera or POV (Point-of-vie

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VIDEO: Taiwan Reveals First Domestically Made Submarine in Defense Milestone

; that can also help maintain the island's "lifeline" to the Pacific by keeping ports along Taiwan's eastern coast open.(Reuters - Reporting by Carlos Garcia, Walid Berrazeg and Sarah Wu; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Taipei and Yew Lun Tian in Beijing; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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Mocean Energy to Develop 250kW Wave Machine in Orkney with EU Investment

.The other successful companies are IDOM Consulting and CETO Wave Energy Ireland, who will install their devices at the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in northern Spain.Major milestone“This is a major milestone for Mocean Energy,” states company co-founder and Managing Director Cameron McNatt.“We have already demonstrated our technology successfully at small scale and this programme will allow us to build a significantly larger machine based on our proven hinged raft design, and incorporate our novel direct drive generator.“We are already working with a range of supply

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Russia to Equip New Nuclear Submarines with Hypersonic Missiles

of the country's efforts to boost its nuclear forces.The Russian multi-purposes frigate Admiral Gorshkov, which has tested its strike capabilities in the western Atlantic Ocean earlier this year, has been already equipped with Zircon missiles.(Reuters - Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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Canada's TMC to Seek Seabed Mining License in 2024

countries."It's clear that trying to mine the oceans is becoming politically toxic - even more so with zero rules in place. This is bullish talk to try and force governments into rushed decisions, but it will come back to bite them."(Reuters - Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Barbara Lewis

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