Phoenix Hires New Area Manager to Lead San Diego-Based Operations
that it has hired Michael T. Johnson (Mike) as Area Manager for its San-Diego based operations.A retired U.S. Navy Master Diver and Warrant Officer, Mike Johnson has more than 30 years of hands-on leadership experience and extensive technical expertise within the Naval Salvage and Expeditionary Combat Enterprise, ocean engineering, marine and waterfront construction and operating in extreme environments. He has designed and led projects and programs including large scale fleet exercises with a record of consistently delivering superior outcomes on-time, safely, and within budget. He is a creative and highly
CSignum Secures £6M to Advance Underwater Wireless Networks
£6 million Series A funding round. The investment will accelerate growth of its EM-2 family of products which are transforming the way critical wireless sensor data is transmitted from submerged environments to networks above. The funding round was led by Archangels, Par Equity, and Scottish Enterprise with additional investment from British Business Investment (BBI), Raptor Group, Deep Future, SeaAhead’s Blue Angel Network, and notable individual US investors. This new investment enables CSignum to expand its global presence, accelerate product development and address the growing
Keppel Buys Global Marine Group
serves a diverse base of customers with high-reliability solutions that ensure the integrity and performance of undersea networks worldwide.Terms of the transaction with KIF were not disclosed.“Our successful partnership with management has transformed Global Marine Group into a focused, growing enterprise, playing an essential role in global telecom infrastructure,” said Alex Harman, Chairman of GMG’s Board of Directors and Partner at JFLCO.“This transaction reflects the strength of our market position, operational expertise, and dedicated team. JFLCO’s support in refining
Green Marine UK Bolsters Subsea Services Unit with Major Investment
Orkney-based marine services firm Green Marine UK has announced a seven-figure capital investment in a new Subsea Services Department targeting the U.K.’s offshore wind sector.The company expansion, boosted by financial backing from HIE (Highlands and Islands Enterprise), includes the purchase of subsea technology from Rovtech (Seatronics), Sonardyne, Norbit, Voyis, Tritech, Digital Edge Subsea, EIVA and a range of other sensors.The Subsea Services Department, expected to officially launch in late spring 2025, will provide in-house turnkey solutions and data, with new services to include GVI
OPINION: Save a Nickel, Kill a Thousand - The Pennies-Wise, Lives-Foolish Effort to Eliminate NOAA
, and millions of acres of farmland lost. NOAA now protects people and property from these (and countless other) disastrous weather, ocean, and climate events every hour of every day.But, you may say, we didn’t have Accuweather, and The Weather Channel, and the rest of the private weather enterprise back in those pre-NOAA days. That’s true, and those companies have been extremely helpful and economically prosperous … due to their reliance on NOAA’s data and forecasts. It’s NOAA that operates 122 Doppler weather radars, 16 environmental satellites, 15 ships (that
Wales Backs Morlais Tidal Energy Scheme
The Welsh Government has taken an $9.9 million equity stake in the Morlais tidal energy scheme to ensure progress of what is set to become the largest tidal energy project in Europe.Owned and managed by Ynys Môn social enterprise Menter Môn, the Morlais tidal scheme is the first of its kind anywhere in the world and will be operational from 2026.The Anglesey site has the potential to generate enough energy for up to 180,000 typical Welsh households, offering a unique ‘plug and play’ model for developers of tidal energy devices.This will help reduce costs as they scale up
'Blue Economy' Target of Government Funding
.D. “We are bringing the public and private sectors together to create sustainable business models, for technologies, products, and services that tackle climate resilience needs in oceans, coastal regions, and the Great Lakes.”Recommended awardees and funding amounts include:StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator. UC San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Rady School of Management: $13.5 million.gener8tor Great Lakes Innovation Accelerator. gener8tor Management, LLC: $13.4 million.VentureWell Ocean Enterprise Accelerator. National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc
NSC and PlanSea to Develop AI-Powered Subsea Decommissioning Tech
awarded a grant to develop a subsea decommissioning optimization software demonstrator with PlanSea, a developer of marine logistics artificial intelligence (AI) technology.The grant was awarded to the National Subsea Centre and PlanSea by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) in partnership with Scottish Enterprise (SE) to assist in developing a subsea decommissioning optimization AI-Demonstrator.As global operators face the challenges of large-scale and complex subsea decommissioning, there is an identified need for optimization in this area to secure a cost-effective and resource-efficient outcome whilst
NUWC Newport Engineer receives 2024 NDIA Medal
achievements in science or engineering in the field of undersea warfare.Throughout his 34-year career, Campbell has built a reputation as one the top technical leaders at Division Newport who supports undersea warfare excellence by contributing his torpedo software algorithm expertise to the torpedo enterprise, the award states. For the past 17 years, Campbell has served as the lead engineer for the torpedo advanced processing build algorithm design, the lead developer for all torpedo software algorithms and a leader of working groups focused on developing advanced torpedo algorithms.In 2023, Campbell
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