Green Tech: Rise of the [Hull Clening] Robots
,000 square meters to be groomed over several port calls.A recent study examined EverClean’s impact on two cruise vessels operating in the Gulf of America and the Caribbean, regions known for high fouling pressure. The vessels were serviced through their home ports in Galveston, Texas, and Miami, Florida. Each round of cleaning covered roughly 90% of the vessels’ wetted hull surface area, demonstrating the system’s ability to maintain large commercial ships with consistent coverage.The first vessel—a larger cruise ship carrying about 4,000 passengers and 1,500 crew—had accumulated
DEEP Selects Reef in Florida Keys for Habitat Deployment
DEEP’s pilot subsea human habitat, Vanguard, will be deployed at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.Installation is planned for the end of April 2026. It will be the first subsea human habitat deployed in the United States in 40 years.First unveiled in Miami in October 2025, Vanguard is now in the final stages of commissioning, including final outfitting, subsystem testing, and integrated acceptance trials.Vanguard is designed to enable up to four crew members to live and work underwater for days at a time, enabling extended time on the seafloor for ocean science
General Dynamics Mission Systems Continues Support of Trident II Strategic Weapon System with New Contract
and trainers kits. Continuous development for the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) FCS will occur under this contract, as well.Work will be performed in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (87%); Bangor, Washington (1%); Kings Bay, Georgia (1%); Loanhead, Midlothian, United Kingdom (4%); Cape Canaveral, Florida (3%); Groton, Connecticut (3%); and Quonset Point, Rhode Island (2%). If all options are exercised, work will continue until December 2032
The Fate of Macroalgae and Why it Matters
modelling and advanced turbulence analyses to demonstrate that extensive mats of macroalgae can travel hundreds of kilometers offshore there. That macroalgae export from Greenland contributes to long-term carbon burial in the Arctic.Another recent study, led by researchers at the University of South Florida and NOAA, used AI to process large amounts of data to give a broader global picture of floating macroalgae. They found that between 2003 and 2022, macroalgal mats expanded around the globe, indicating that conditions are favorable for the growth of floating macroalgae.In open water, this macroalgae
FAU to Develop Sea-Level Projection Tool for Gulf of America
trends – to forecast extreme sea-level events and regional variability under deep uncertainty.A key component of the project is community engagement, particularly in rural and unincorporated areas along the Gulf Coast that often lack sufficient resources for adaptation planning. Partnering with Florida Sea Grant, FAU researchers will conduct outreach programs in four communities to increase knowledge of sea-level rise, provide scenario-specific decision-making tools, and deploy water level sensors to enhance local data availability. The team will also co-develop a user-friendly, artificial intelligence
DOLGO Launches AI Platform to Document, Share Workforce Knowledge
DOLGO, a Florida-based maritime tech start up, has launched its new AI platform to help combat maritime’s skills crisis at the recent Blue Innovation Symposium in Rhode Island.DOLGO founder Nithesh Wazenn explained that the platform, which can be uploaded to a phone or computer like ChatGPT, will tackle one of the biggest challenges facing maritime—the vanishing aging workforce. As a measure of the scale of the problem in the United States today, the average age of shipyard workers is 55-years-old. This is against a backdrop of shipbuilding demand being set to double over the next decade.
The Rise of the Aquanaut
will change soon.Subsea habitats are not a new invention. Jacques Cousteau built the first in 1962, although it was only about the size of an elevator.The only currently operating underwater station for research during saturation diving that Helmuth knows of is the Aquarius Reef Base operated off the Florida Keys by Florida International University. “There are other underwater facilities,” he said, “but they are shallower than saturation depth, for example, Jules Verne Lodge.”In 2014, a team of aquanauts lived in Aqaurius for 31 days under the leadership of Fabien Cousteau. He
Submarine Group Two Commander Visits NUWC Newport
understanding of what could be possible.”NUWC Newport is the oldest warfare center in the country, tracing its heritage to the Naval Torpedo Station established on Goat Island in Newport Harbor in 1869. Commanded by Capt. Kevin Behm, NUWC Newport maintains major detachments in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Andros Island in the Bahamas, as well as test facilities at Seneca Lake and Fisher's Island, New York, Leesburg, Florida, and Dodge Pond, Connecticut
2025: Fascinated with Subsea Discovery
.As of August 2025, the Enigma app had logged over 9,000 U.S. sightings within 10 miles of shorelines and major waterways. More than 150 reports describe objects hovering above or ascending into or descending from bodies of water. The U.S. states with the most USO reports are California (389) and Florida (306).New Wave Media will keep you posted on subsea discoveries in 2026
February 2026
