SolarDuck Achieves ISO 9001 Certification
SolarDuck, who specializes in offshore floating solar energy solutions, announced that it has achieved ISO 9001 certification, the world’s leading standard for quality management systems. The ISO 9001 certification awarded by Bureau Veritas is another step in SolarDuck’s ongoing journey of aiming for operational excellence. It follows the company’s recent recognition through the EcoVadis certification, underscoring SolarDuck’s focus on both quality and sustainability, including responsible business practices. SolarDuck has received its ISO 9001 and EcoVadis certificatio
Kongsberg Discovery Launches Digital “Librarian”
platform to simplify ocean data management.The benefits include centralized data collection and logging from all onboard and remote sensors, automatic cataloguing and indexing to prepare data for exploration and analysis, and seamless data distribution to mirrored cloud environments or other data management systems.Visualization of data is possible with both real-time and historical data georeferenced in dashboards, maps, and time series viewers and a high degree of customization available (allowing users to filter and tailor displays according to specific needs).The Geomatics architecture is AI and machine
DoD Looks for Advance Underwater Communication Solutions
to provide an operational advantage in all environments. Solutions should deliver advantages across capabilities such as:• Providing near real-time communications between undersea vehicles.• Providing near real-time communications from UVs to Command and Control (C2) Systems/Battle Management Systems (BMS).• Providing near real-time communications between seabed systems to UVs, C2 Systems, and BMS.• Providing a system that can optimally allocate the right asset to the right task in a dynamic and complex environment.• Providing optimal bandwidth utilization and effective range
£4M Investment to Enhance Marine Robotics Research Capabilities
Innovation (AASI) initiative, which aims to show how innovation in marine sensor technology can be translated into deployable autonomous research capabilities.The funding will support three cutting-edge sensor development projects: integrating these sensors into autonomous platforms, enhancing data management systems, and targeting comprehensive validation trials by the summer of 2026.The three sensor projects are:Autonomous Sensors for fast In-situ Measurements of nutrient Ocean Variables (ASIMOV) – led by Dr Allison Schaap, will increase the performance, speed, and reliability of nitrate and phosphate
Kongsberg delivers first REACH REMOTE USV
and Massterly shaping the future of uncrewed offshore operations. We are thrilled to see the Reach Remote 1 set sail and prepared for its first mission.”Kongsberg Maritime served as the prime contractor for this turnkey project, taking responsibility for vessel design, yard delivery, supply chain management, systems integration, and commissioning. The company’s deep expertise in maritime technology was instrumental in bringing this innovative concept to life.“What began as a visionary idea has now become a tangible reality,” said Lisa Edvardsen Haugan, President of Kongsberg Maritime
Most Marine Protection Measures are Not Working; A New Approach is Needed
protect 30% of their land and sea by 2030, governments and local people should use diverse management approaches in combination, rather than unrealistically seeking one best solution. The key to resilience is diversity, both of species in ecosystems and conservation measures in protected area management systems.AuthorPeter JS Jones, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Governance, UCLContributorRick Stafford, Professor of Marine Biology and Conservation, Bournemouth University(Source: The Conversation
Remote, Autonomous Ship Ops Drive Future of Marine Data Management
to identify the data segments that hold the most value and optimise their transmission while filtering out lower priority data. This process ensures efficient utilisation of limited bandwidth and minimises the time spent sifting through less pertinent information.All are agreed that any data management systems and protocols that enhance or enable lean crewed or uncrewed vessel operations have an immediate and valuable cross-over into all marine operations involving the handling of large quantities of data, and that includes current, fully crewed operations.To address these bottlenecks, Ocean Infinity
NTSB Recommends Pipeline Operators Implement Safety Management Systems
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is recommending new notification alarms and procedures for potential incursions on pipelines and a change to an anchorage off the California coast following a crude oil release in 2021 caused by ship anchors damaging an underwater pipeline.NTSB investigators determined that the oil leak, which began on October 1, 2021, in San Pedro Bay, resulted from an anchor strike on the pipeline that occurred eight months earlier, when anchors from the containerships Beijing and MSC Danit dragged and contacted the pipeline during high winds and seas caused by a
Interview: Geir Håøy, CEO, Kongsberg
current growth).But, as previously alluded to, the group’s offering is far, far broader, ranging from autonomous underwater vehicles (the HUGIN), through to environmental mapping and monitoring, digital solutions for more efficient industrial processes (e.g. advanced digital twins) and energy management systems.These, Håøy says, have an important role to play for both the group’s growth and the industry’s transition – a belief underpinning the launch of a new entity last year; Kongsberg Renewable Technologies.Håøy describes this as “sitting alongside&rdquo
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