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India Keeps Close Watch on Chinese Research Vessel

.Both New Delhi and Beijing vie for influence on the tiny Indian Ocean nation but the new government in Male is pivoting towards China and has asked India to withdraw its nearly 80 troops stationed there.The Chinese vessel is en-route to Male, open source intelligence researcher Damien Symon wrote on social media platform X, saying Xiang Yang Hong 03 “is entering the Indian Ocean Region, displaying its destination as Male, the vessel is expected to run an ocean survey operation in the Indian Ocean Region raising concern in #India”.An Indian military official confirmed Symon’s finding

Kimberlee McHugh has joined Teledyne Marine - Vehicles, located in North Falmouth, Massachusetts, as the organization’s new marketing manager. Image courtesy Teledyne Marine

Kimberlee McHugh Joins Teledyne Marine - Falmouth

and knowledge to us,” said Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing William Egan. Kimberlee's role at Teledyne encompasses the planning, development and implementation of internal and external marketing strategies, marketing communications, event coordination and planning, social media, web presence and messaging, and public relations activities, and coordinating the development and implementation of support materials and services day-to-day for Teledyne Marine.“I am thrilled to be a part of Teledyne’s dynamic sales and marketing team and getting to know the brilliant

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Most Data Lives in the Cloud. What if it Lived Under the Sea?

Where is the text you’re reading, right now? In one sense, it lives “on the internet” or “in the cloud”, just like your favorite social media platform or the TV show you might stream tonight.But in a physical sense, it’s stored and transmitted somewhere in a network of thousands of data centers across the globe. Each of these centers is whirring, buzzing and beeping around the clock, to store, process and communicate vast amounts of data and provide services to hungry consumers.All this infrastructure is expensive to build and run, and has a considerable environmental

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Oceanology International Announces Marine Technology Reporter as Exclusive Video Media Partner

live Dockside Demos. Other features, including the Future Tech Hub, OceanICT, three days of technical conference content and the return of the premium Catch the Next Wave conference, will provide rich sources of material for MTR’s video content which will be available to view on the Oi website, social media and digital platforms.Oi24 - Oceanology International returns next March at ExCeL LondonMike Enser, Oi24 Marketing Manager, said: “We are pleased to announce the partnership with MTR and Marine Technology TV, confirming exclusive endorsement from Oi for them to speak to those who really

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Turkey to Work with Romania, Bulgaria Against Black Sea Mines

Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria will work together against the threat of floating mines in the Black Sea due to war between Russia and Ukraine, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.The ministry gave no details of how it would address the floating mine problem. It said on social media platform X that the three countries had discussed the issue at the NATO Defense Ministers meeting 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

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Missing "Titanic" Submersible - Update

12,500 feet (3,800m) undersea is missing in the Atlantic off Canada.Reuters is reporting the following individuals onboard:HAMISH HARDING. The British billionaire and chairman of aviation consultancy Action Aviation is among those missing, according to his stepson. Dubai-based Harding had posted on social media that he was proud to be heading to the Titanic as a "mission specialist", adding: "Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023. A weather window has just opened up and we are going to

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Titanic Exploration Submersible Missing, Rescue Efforts Underway

operates the vessel and the U.S. Coast Guard.OceanGate Expeditions said in a statement on Monday that it was "mobilizing all options" to rescue those on the underwater vessel, which typically has five people on board.British billionaire Hamish Harding is among the passengers, according to a social media post from a relative.The Coast Guard said on Twitter that a boat on the surface, the Polar Prince, lost contact with the submersible about an hour and 45 minutes after it began diving toward the wreckage site on Sunday morning.U.S. and Canadian authorities have launched a search-and-rescue operation

Dr. John Kessler (right) and Dr. DongJoo Joung (Pusan National University) collecting methane for radiocarbon analysis. All images: University of Rochester/John Kessler

Stepping on the Gas: Rochester Researchers Team to tackle Methane Emissions

the methane distribution data collected at sea. “Models like artificial neural networks are essentially pattern-recognition tools—it’s essentially the same technology as facial recognition software and the algorithms that predict your political leanings based on things you like on social media,” explained Weber. “For us, the pattern recognition tool is used to identify pattern similarities between variables that we have little data for (like methane) and other variables (‘predictors’) that we have lots of data for, like temperature and chlorophyll that we can

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Earthquake Offshore California Knocks Out Power for Thousands

, leaving thousands without power.The earthquake, which struck at 2:34 a.m. (1034 GMT), was about 10 miles (16.1 km) deep, USGS said, and struck about 7.4 (12 km) west-southwest of Ferndale, California, a Humboldt County town about a four-hour drive north of San Francisco.Local media and others on social media reported there were numerous gas leaks, powerlines down, and at least one structure fire in Ferndale. A representative from the Humboldt Sheriff's Office was not immediately available for comment.Local media reported that the California highway patrol was responding to reports of cracks in

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