ASL Concludes Metocean Survey for Canada’s Gas Transmission System
March 2024.All subsea equipment and wave buoy mooring anchors were successfully recovered, with full recovery of all datasets. The field program measured directional waves and subsea currents at six individual moorings deployed at three strategic locations along the pipeline route in the Strait of Georgia near Powell River, BC and Texada Island.These measurements utilized ASL’s new PBM-15 polyethylene deepwater buoys to support data collection in water depth of up to 400 m.The datasets collected from this program will be used in numerical modeling studies to support pipeline spanning and integrity
TDI-Brooks Delivers Deepwater Atlantic Habitats II Report
, Canyon and Seep Communities.” It is the final deliverable of the BOEM Contract called Deep SEARCH, conducted in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey.Initially, the study was a five-year, collaborative scientific research program focused on the outer continental shelf between Virginia and Georgia. The COVID crisis extended the program for another 18+ months. TDI-Brooks surveyed the region’s deep-sea coral, cold-seep, and canyon communities with the aim of developing better predictive capacities for the community types encountered.The sites were studied during five directly supported
Study Sheds New Light on Ancient Shipwreck off Cyprus
sources of information for archaeologists to reconstruct the human past. In underwater sites like where the Kyrenia was buried, archaeological materials decay much more slowly. As a result, organic materials like wood, seeds or rope can be much better preserved than on land," said University of Georgia anthropology professor and study co-author Brita Lorentzen.The discovery of a deepwater shipwreck off the coast of Israel, dating to roughly 1300 BC, was announced just last week."Ships were a critical source of transportation in the ancient world, which allowed people to move from one place
BP Launches Its ‘Largest-Ever’ Seismic Program at Azerbaijan Oil Field
4D technology to be used for this program will allow us to acquire further in-depth data about the reservoir helping us identify ways to minimize future well surprises and maximize the field recovery in the next decades,” said Roshni Moosai, BP’s vice president subsurface, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye region.ACG is the biggest oil field operated by BP, and to date more than 4.3 billion barrels (581 million tons) of oil have been produced from the field.West Azeri Platform Marks 1 Billion Barrels MilestoneThe ACG Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) was initially signed in September
Sonardyne Holds Seabed Deformation Technical Workshop
Technical Workshop bringing together some key members of the Sonardyne academic user community in the USA and Canada to share insights, experiences and how its GNSS-A and AZA instruments can be further improved to meet future needs.These included; Ocean Networks Canada, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Georgia Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington, as well as our hosts Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. As well as providing the stunning backdrop for this event, Scripps Institution of Oceanography furnished instruments for the workshop
All American Marine Launches New Research Vessel for NOAA
; reefs of the southeastern United States. It is just one of 15 marine protected areas that make up the U.S. National Marine Sanctuary System, governed by the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary stands as the lone safeguarded natural reef zone along the Georgia coast’s continental shelf, and it’s a rare gem in the broader expanse of the ocean, extending from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Cape Canaveral, Fla. This sanctuary, spanning approximately 22 square miles (roughly 14,000 acres), may be a modest segment of the vast U.S. territorial Atlantic
US Awards $6.7 Million for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Resilience Research
approaches for flood risk reduction for two estuaries in the Pacific Northwest.(IRA-funded) Oregon State University received $500,000 to assess the environmental and economic tradeoffs of different management strategies for backshore dune environments in the Pacific Northwest.(IRA-funded) University of Georgia, U.S. Geological Survey and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University received $500,000 to model nature-based flood mitigation projects to inform holistic coastal planning in the Gulf of Mexico coast.(IRA-funded) University of California, Irvine and University of Miami received nearly $500,000 to evaluate
Turkey to Work with Romania, Bulgaria Against Black Sea Mines
in Brussels.Last week, the British government said Russia may use sea mines to target civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of planting mines off the Ukrainian coast.Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, plus Georgia, Poland and Ukraine previously discussed clearing floating mines in April 2022.Turkey is also working with the United Nations, Ukraine, and Russia to revive the Black Sea grain initiative that Moscow quit earlier this year.(Reuters - Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Rod Nickel
Romania Deploys Vessel, Helicopter to Find Stray Black Sea Mines
in February 2022, and mines have since then been laid in the Black Sea by the combatants. Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish military diving teams have been defusing those that have drifted into their waters.The sea is crucial for shipments of grain, oil and oil products and is shared by Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia and Turkey, as well as Ukraine and Russia.Romania's navy said its divers were still investigating whether the explosion at the pier, which claimed no victims, was caused by a mine.Reports of a separate mine drifting near the port of Mangalia were unfounded, it said.Romania, both a European Union
