China Mapping Ocean Floor Ready for Submarine Warfare
;China's ministries of defense, foreign affairs and natural resources didn't respond to requests for comment about the seabed mapping and ocean-monitoring activities.The U.S. Defense Department didn't respond to questions from Reuters.In testimony to a congressional commission this month, Rear Admiral Mike Brookes, the commander of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, said China had dramatically expanded its surveying efforts, providing data that "enables submarine navigation, concealment, and positioning of seabed sensors or weapons." He added that "potential military intelligence
China Maps Ocean Floor as It Builds Submarine Warfare Capability
;China's ministries of defense, foreign affairs and natural resources didn't respond to requests for comment about the seabed mapping and ocean-monitoring activities.The U.S. Defense Department didn't respond to questions from Reuters.In testimony to a congressional commission this month, Rear Admiral Mike Brookes, the commander of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, said China had dramatically expanded its surveying efforts, providing data that "enables submarine navigation, concealment, and positioning of seabed sensors or weapons." He added that "potential military intelligence
UFO App Logs Mysterious Underwater Sightings
to this day. Veteran Navy sonar operator Aaron Amick has noted that unusual “fast mover” contacts occasionally appear on sonar, but they are “so quick that you can’t measure the speed." In his November 2024 testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Former Naval Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet made it clear that he sees these objects and incidents as a serious national security risk. Of the reports Enigma has collected, two include mysterious lights moving below the ocean’s surface captured on phone cameras, and seafarers reporting objects coming up from the
Women Navy Divers Meet Same Standards as Men
. They had to climb up and down the dive ladders wearing the same 200-pound Mark V dive system.”In the early days, dive gear was designed to fit men and often oversized for female divers. In the Sep/Oct issue of Marine Technology Reporter magazine, Captain Bobbie Scolley, U.S. Navy (ret.), and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.), report on how women overcame the challenges.
50 Years of Women in Navy Diving: Advancing Opportunity in Tandem with Technology
By Captain Bobbie Scolley, U.S. Navy (ret.) and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.)For more than six decades, spanning from 1905 to the late 1970s, the U.S. Navy’s diving apparatus for deep ocean operations and salvage remained fundamentally unchanged. During this period, the demographic of navy divers also saw little alteration. However, beginning in the mid-1970s and continuing to the present day, a series of developments initiated a gradual transformation in both areas with significant implications for contemporary Navy diving.Donna Tobias, standing at 5’5” and weighing
Captain Ahmed Al Badi receives 2025 Alexander Dalrymple Award
(ONHO), with the Alexander Dalrymple Award for 2025. The award recognizes his services to hydrography. Captain Ahmed Al Badi was invited to the UKHO where he was presented with this year’s award. Hosted by the UK’s National Hydrographer and Director of Data Acquisition and Defence, Rear Admiral Angus Essenhigh OBE, the presentation was attended by members of the wider UKHO team, as well as by Colonel Said Al Mamari, Assistant Military Attaché from the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman. The Alexander Dalrymple Award committee recognized Captain Ahmed Al Badi’s strategic
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Welcomes Admiral Tim Gallaudet As New Trustee
The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation announced the appointment of the Honorable Tim Gallaudet, PhD, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret) and CEO of Ocean STL Consulting to its Board of Trustees. Adm. Gallaudet is a strategist in building connections to bring together different sectors towards common missions. His network bridges ocean science and discovery luminaries, heritage and preservation champions, service and naval intelligence professionals, technology startups and ocean enterprise ventures. As CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, Adm. Gallaudet serves as a strategic advisor for a variety of
Cables Hold the Key to Quantum Communications
Speaking on Marine Technology TV this week, Dr Tim Gallaudet, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret) and CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, highlighted quantum communications as an important development in subsea technology. It may not happen in 2025 as the technology is still in its infancy, but it could be mainstream in the next decade, Gallaudet says.Today, sensitive data is typically encrypted and then sent across fiber optic cables together with digital “keys” that are needed to encrypt and decrypt the information. However, hackers can access the data (the string of 0 and 1 bits used by traditional
PODCAST: “All in the [Gallaudet] Family”
In this inaugural episode of View from the Helm, Rear Admiral (ret) Tim Gallaudet is interviewed by his daughter Laurel Gallaudet, currently a Masters student and an aspiring ocean communicator, as well as a contributing writer to Marine Technology Reporter.RAdm Gallaudet has a long and distinguished career, including 32 years in the Navy, serving of the Oceanographer of the Navy, and a stint as Acting and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Laurel has clearly inherited her father’s love of the oceans [and not to mention that her mother Caren was
February 2026
