NUWC Division Newport Hosts Change of Command
. Chad F. Hennings during a change of command ceremony held on Sept. 3. Behm, a 2004 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, most recently served as the commanding officer of the USS Hartford (SSN 768). His previous submarine tours include the USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723), USS Georgia (SSGN 720), USS Florida (SSGN 728) and USS New Hampshire (SSN 778). Ashore, he served as shift engineer at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, junior board member on the Pacific Fleet Nuclear Propulsion Examination Board, and chief of operations for the Office of Stockpile Sustainment at the National Nuclear Security
DRIFT Offshore Opens Subsea Repair Facility in South Florida
Subsea resourcing specialist DRIFT Offshore has extended its service capabilities by formally opening a new, purpose-built subsea repair and engineering facility in South Florida.Creating five new job roles in the process, the launch of the 5,000 sq ft base is a direct response to the acknowledged market shortage of specialist subsea repair resources in the United States.It is now providing bespoke services designed to improve the availability, reliability, and performance of customers’ subsea equipment and systems. The facility in South Florida features electronics and hydraulic workshops as
Shipwreck Windfall: ROV Expedition Captures Maritime History
a candy store when he got to see that."The Rhod(y) Ahead“We've got huge plans for little Rhody,” laughed Fahy. Upcoming projects include cold-water coral studies in the Gulf of Maine and participation in the documentation of the intentional sinking of the S.S. United States off the Florida coast to create an artificial reef. “This is a really cool opportunity because you can do a pre-sinking inspection to know what the current conditions are. After the vessel is sunk and the community starts to interact with it as a dive site, how it changes is an important scientific question
Nauticus Robotics, AOS Join Forces for Offshore Robotics
systems, delivering new efficiencies to offshore industry operations.Under the agreement, Nauticus and AOS are planning to blend their engineering expertise and technical capabilities to address maritime autonomy opportunities.Immediate discussions include plans to use AOS's test lake facility in Florida, where they intend to begin a series of trials with Nauticus' flagship autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Aquanaut.In addition to advancing Aquanaut's overall operating parameters, plans are underway to explore the best way to integrate the AUV into a broader collaborative ecosystem of
An Oceanographic Music Mix
ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather including artists Louise Devenish (performer/director) Kate Milligan (composition), Erin Coates (film), Aaron Wyatt (music technologist) and scientist Navid Constantinou (oceanographer).A team of professors, musicians and students at University of South Florida have also been transforming complicated environmental data into powerful music compositions. After tackling issues such as harmful algae blooms and red tides, the group has now composed music that highlights the environmental stressors affecting oysters in Florida. Led by Assistant Professor of
Teledyne Acquires Maretron
lines to ensure a seamless transition for existing Maretron customers.The addition of Maretron products and engineering expertise expands Raymarine’s leading position as a vessel automation solution provider to boat builders and system integrators. The acquisition also includes Maretron’s Florida office location, allowing both Raymarine and Maretron to continue to serve the strategic United States Southeast boating marketThe acquisition of Maretron represents Teledyne’s eleventh corporate carve-out transaction and second carve-out completed in 2025
There’s No Place Like Home
a colony of your own. You know, build out the whole suburban lifestyle. We have a five-star guest rating online, so what do you say?Ladd's B&B is part of a research project for Mission: Iconic Reefs, a large-scale NOAA-led and partner-driven coral restoration initiative in NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The dwelling structures, called calcification accretion units (CAUs), mimic the places where larvae settle naturally before growing calcium carbonate structures that become coral reefs. CAUs are left on the seafloor for up to a year, and then retrieved for scientists
Researchers Awarded for Identifying Possible Language-Like Communication in Dolphins
WHOI’s Peter Tyack. Vincent Janik from the University of St. Andrews, Frants Jensen from Aarhus University, Katie McHugh, and Randall Wells from the Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s SDRP were also a part of the research science teams, working with a resident bottlenose dolphin community in Sarasota, Florida. Their study focused on non-signature whistles—which comprise approximately 50% of whistles produced by Sarasota dolphins. Non-signature whistles differ from the more widely-studied signature whistles—which are name-like vocalizations.The winning study identified distinct non-signature
Microplastics Becoming Measurable Part of Ocean’s Carbon Cycle
million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. Microplastics – ranging from 1 micron to 5 millimeters – make up most of the plastic pieces found.Most research has focused on surface waters, usually sampling just the top 15 to 50 centimeters using net tows, but a researcher from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is among an international team of scientists who has mapped microplastic distribution from the surface to the deep sea at a global scale.The researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution patterns
August 2025
