West Africa’s Oceans at Risk Because of a Lack of Monitoring
The West African Canary Current extends along the north-west African coast, from the northern Atlantic coast of Morocco to Guinea-Bissau. It’s a hotspot for changes in the oceans driven by climate change. These include rising temperatures, ocean acidification and ocean deoxygenation. All affect marine life on multiple levels.The current is one of the world’s most productive ocean ecosystems, a consequence of the upwelling of cold and nutrient-rich waters. Ecosystems like this provide around 20% of global fish catches and support livelihoods in coastal communities.From 2016 -2019, we worked
XLCC to Order New Cable Laying Vessel
XLCC, the new high-voltage direct current (HVDC), renewable energy focused business in the U.K., said it has completed the concept design for a new cable laying vessel for planned delivery in the first half of 2025.The newbuild is slated to support the Morocco – UK Power Project, XLCC's first client project, through the delivery of four 3,800km subsea HVDC cables from a wind and solar generation site in Morocco to the U.K.Alan Mathers, XLCC director, said, “Our vessel will be, on delivery, the most sophisticated, capable and green cable layer in the world. With this capability, we will
Subsea Vehicles: Diving into the Autosub Program
a Linkquest USBL system to locate and send navigation offsets to the sub.ALR1 on the Filchner-Ronne deployment in 2018. All images from the National Oceanography Center.Autosub6000’s first science mission was bathymetric surveys of scours in the Agadir Canyon, in 4000 m water depth northwest of Morocco in 2008. It also went hydrothermal vent hunting in the mid-Cayman rise in 5000 m water depth and discovered world’s deepest hydrothermal vent at the time. Autosub6000 has also worked on the Darwin mounds in Rockall Trough area, undertaking high frequency side scan and photography surveys,
OSIL Reports Export Milestone
water quality monitoring. Other recent export sales include a 30m Giant Piston Corer system to Korean Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) for its ongoing sediment sampling program; P-Series IAPSO Standard Seawater for precise salinity measurement and high-end instrument calibrations to Morocco; two 0.6m Inshore Monitoring Buoys for remote collection of tide data to a survey company in Singapore and Nutrient Standards to a laboratory supply company in Trinidad for aquaculture purposes.As global experts in the provision of tailored integrated systems for over 30 years, OSIL produces scientific
Currents Not Linked to New England Sea Level
satellite imagery has given scientists a record of movement at the ocean’s surface, but has been unable to detect currents below the surface. Starting in 2004, however, an international team of scientists began maintaining a chain of instruments that stretch across the Atlantic between Florida and Morocco. The instruments, which are collectively called the RAPID array, hold a variety of sensors that measure currents, salinity and temperature.“RAPID doesn’t resolve the details of every individual current along the way, but it does give us the sum total of the ocean’s behavior, which
Portugal, Morocco Seek Power Link
Portugal and Morocco will invite bids to build an undersea electricity cable linking the two countries after technical and financial feasibility studies are completed in early 2019, a senior Portuguese official said on Monday.Morocco and Portugal agreed in 2015 on plans for a 1,000 megawatt (MW) link. Feasibility studies were launched in 2016.Portuguese Secretary of State for Energy Joao Galamba told Reuters that the two governments aimed to issue the invitations to bid "immediately after the feasibility study""Both governments are strongly committed to this project," he said on
Further Milestones for QuietSea PAM System
recognized that the ability to use geophysical survey streamers for PAM was a great step in the future development of effective PAM systems. Another milestone was achieved when QuietSea was deployed commercially for the first time, on a proprietary 3D seismic survey CGG conducted offshore Morocco late last year. For nearly three months of continuous use throughout the survey, QuietSea’s integrated architecture enabled smooth and safe deployment and unimpeded productivity. Sercel’s QuietSea marine mammal monitoring system was specifically designed to provide clear and
CGG Achieves Near Real-time Imaging for Offshore Survey
CGG delivered imaging results in near real-time for a 4,200 sq km BroadSeis 3D marine seismic survey acquired offshore Morocco, providing the very-fast-track (VFT) RTM PSDM volume to the client four days after the last shot. The crew of the CGG Geo Caspian worked in partnership with the client to complete the program ahead of schedule. According to CGG’s CEO, Jean-Georges Malcor, “This exceptional achievement surpasses our record last year when we delivered 1,700 sq km of fast-track depth imaging data just nine days after acquisition for another survey offshore Morocco
Arctic Sea Ice Retreat Pinned to Individuals' Emissions -Study
4.14 million square kilometres (1.60 million square miles), matching 2007 as the second smallest in the satellite record behind 2012. Thursday's study said goals set under the 2015 Paris Agreement for curbing emissions were insufficient to avert the loss of ice. Governments meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, from Nov. 7-18 to work out how to implement the agreement. (Reporting By Alister Doyle
February 2024
