SOI Steps Ahead on Ocean Mapping
SOLARIS. The prototype for that was an instrument called DISCO, similar, but for much shallower water, which was funded by Marine Technology Partners. As I mentioned, it found greater biodiversity, and they're still working on the data, but new coral species as well.The third cruise was our Octopus Odyssey off Costa Rica. That was to go and look at an octopus nursery that had been discovered in 2013. Back then, there was no evidence that the octopus that they'd seen had viable eggs, no real evidence of this being a nursery. When we went out this year, we saw hatchlings and little octopus. It actually
US Navy to Name Oceanographic Survey Ship USNS Robert Ballard
learning amongst DoN personnel. The name Robert Ballard displayed across the stern of this ship will serve as an inspiration to all who see it while highlighting the results of commitment to education and exploration.”In addition, Barbara Earle Ballard, Dr. Ballard’s spouse and President of Odyssey Enterprises, has been designated as the ship’s sponsor.The $149 million oceanographic survey ship was ordered from Pascagoula, Miss. shipyard Halter Marine—now Bollinger MS Shipbuilding—in June 2021, and its keel was ceremonially laid in October 2022.Equipped with a moon pool
HII Debuts REMUS 620 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)
to accurately deliver this range of advanced above-and-below water effects at long range.”Built to support current and next-generation naval and special operations forces operations, REMUS 620 features a modular, open architecture design to facilitate seamless payload integration and HII’s Odyssey suite of advanced autonomy solutions for intelligent, robotic platforms.REMUS 620 is the same size and weight of the first and only full-rate production medium UUVs: the MK 18 Mod 2, Littoral Battleship Sensing-Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (LBS-AUV) and LBS-Razorback systems operated by the U.S.
AUV Extravaganza: Tech Advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
target detection and in mission sonar processing are the biggest changes we’re seeing. Longer missions without a person in the loop and increasing the odds of mission success.”More broadly, HII’s direction of travel is about autonomy and multidomain operations. HII recently announced Odyssey, “a suite of advanced autonomy solutions that can turn any ship or vehicle in any domain into an intelligent, robotic platform”. This includes multi-vehicle collaborative autonomy, from remote control to fully autonomous capability, aligned with industry open architecture standards.In-roads
Subsea Vehicles: Diving into the Autosub Program
with the vehicles right through to Autosub6000. “The distributed architecture of the system was really ground breaking,” he says. Operations in 1999, with Autosub 2 in Antarctica. All images from the National Oceanography Center.1996 had been a big year for AUVs. MIT’s Odyssey II had completed a survey off British Colombia and International Submarine Engineering’s Theseus laid a 175km fiber optic cable under sea-ice in the Canadian Arctic. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Autonomous Benthic Explorer had also been making observations around the Juan de
Odyssey Marine Exploration Appoints Jones as CFO
U.S.-based subsea mining company Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced it has expanded its executive and legal teams. On Monday, the firm's Board of Directors appointed Christopher "Chris" E. Jones as Chief Financial Officer and reappointed Jay Nudi as the company’s Principal Accounting Officer and Treasurer.“As we evaluated our strategic plans and every part of our business over the past year, it became clear that we needed to add specific expertise to our executive team to allow Odyssey to execute on its strategic plan,” commented Mark D. Gordon, Chairman and CEO
Offshore Survey Vessels: Ready for Faster Sensors
or risk in the context of geosurveys as the rich data is locked aboard and “hopefully” the data is good. There are some additional operating concepts that could be applied here including smaller, fast support vessels and unlimited broadband VSAT solutions which may make it work well.LeeWay Odyssey transits to Bedford, Nova Scotia to test the Kraken Katfish.Who owns new value creation?In our view, there are several interesting permutations and combinations of UxVs coupled with vessels that can be applied to create a decent solution set; but, no matter how you slice it, it becomes a race to
Unmanned Vehicles: 25 Years of Milestones
as UUVs, and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), sometimes known and USVs, illustrates both technical and commercial influences. As the technology has matured the applications and business impact has grown too.AUVs ThenIn the early 1990s the MIT AUV Lab was working with a vehicle series known as the Odyssey Class. These were roughly 21 inches in diameter and about 2 meters long. They were designed to dive as deep as 6,000 meters but be relatively affordable and easy to deploy. These vehicles supported many science missions including under-ice work in the Arctic and oceanography in the Antarctic. A
Tidal Power for Seabed Oil and Gas Installations
(EMEC) in the Orkney Islands, northern Scotland. EC-OG is now refining the system to match the requirements of oil and gas field developers. These include having two or more turbines and differing battery sizes depending on site requirements.The device being lowered to the deck of the Leask Marine C-Odyssey workboat, in preparation for installation at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). (Photo: Nortek)EC-OG is confident that the Power Hub will have uses beyond filling the gap until power via cable to the seabed can be installed or restored. The equipment offers the prospect of at least five years&rsqu