MBARI Research Supports Cryospheric Science
, revealing remarkably complex underwater terrain. Data show dynamic and dramatic changes to the seafloor caused by the melting of ancient submerged permafrost as well as current cycles of melting and freezing seawater.MBARI’s research can help guide policymakers’ decisions about underwater infrastructure in the Arctic. This summer, MBARI researchers will return to the Canadian Beaufort Sea to continue this work.MBARI’s collaborators on this body of work include researchers at the Geological Survey of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Korean Polar Research Institute, and the
Deep Strike: Seabed Warfare Will Target More Than Cables and Pipelines
package of stealth bombers flying low over rugged terrain. Except the craft aren’t stealth bombers—they’re BWBUGs. And the terrain isn’t rolling countryside—it’s the ocean floor.Discussions of seabed warfare are usually centered around attacks on critical underwater infrastructure (CUI)—power and telecommunications cables, oil and gas pipelines. But while these nodes in the global information and energy grids are indeed critical, they represent just one target set within a rapidly evolving undersea domain. Seabed warfare will increasingly be defined by the
Mother Ship with USV Flotilla Could Boost Coast Guard Capabilities
ISCRAM2025 Conference (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) in Halifax, Canada, last month.The concept could provide a persistent, on-water presence which could assist with search and rescue response, response to shore-based emergencies, maritime domain awareness, critical underwater infrastructure surveillance and protection, interdiction of illegal products, and more.The mother ship and USVs could be operable for extended periods, unlike aircraft and aerial drones, and the researchers, Adjunct Professor John Dalziel and Dr Ronald Pelot of Dalhousie and Dr Shelley Gallup of the US
Teledyne Marine to Participate in the SeaSEC Challenge 2025
Teledyne Geospatial, will participate in the SeaSEC Challenge 2025 (SCW25), a maritime security event that brings together industry leaders to test and validate technologies in realistic underwater threat scenarios. As part of its continued commitment to innovation and safeguarding critical underwater infrastructure, Teledyne Marine is engaging in all three of SeaSEC's core challenges.The three SeaSEC challenges, and Teledyne Marine's solutions, are:SeaSEC Challenge #1: Sea What’s ThereIn this scenario participants are required to detect and track potentially uncooperative underwater
CSignum Secures £6M to Advance Underwater Wireless Networks
, ice, soil, rock and concrete to networks above the surface—an ability no other wireless method has successfully achieved to date. Key applications for EM-2 systems include water quality and environmental monitoring, wireless under-ship monitoring, and security applications for critical underwater infrastructure such as offshore wind turbines and oil and gas platforms. The company also offers CSignum Cloud, providing data services to complement its wireless systems. The company’s dashboard and analytics are successfully deployed on several river water quality monitoring projects.
Kraken Robotics Launches SAS Service for Offshore Energy Market
services team will have dedicated KATFISH towed SAS systems available for rental starting July 2025.Kraken’s KATFISH towed SAS debuted as a product seven years ago. Since then, it has been utilized around the world for applications ranging from mine countermeasure operations to critical underwater infrastructure inspection and harbor survey.The system offers real-time 3 cm by 3 cm resolution with a range of up to 200 meters per side, providing some of the industry’s highest area coverage rates available.The high resolution of Kraken SAS helps to derisk projects, with the ability to differentiate
New Alliance Set Up to Boost Australia’s Subsea Sector
supply chains in both countries and support each other’s members in entering their respective markets.They will also share market intelligence and learnings around diversification strategies particularly in energy transition and defense, including the security and protection of critical underwater infrastructure.Facilitating collaboration will be a priority with the establishment of partnership innovation programs between UK and Australian firms to develop and implement technology suitable for both regions.Specifically, GUH will work to help UK companies capitalize on significant opportunities
Kongsberg Discovery: Demonstrations at Ocean Business 2025
Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.Demonstrations on all three days will showcase the EM2042 Multibeam Echosounder and Seapath 385 GNSS aided inertial navigation system onboard the Fugro FTV Xplorer vessel, in addition to dockside demos with the Flexview multibeam sonar deployed on a ROV for underwater infrastructure inspection and gas seep detection.Kongsberg Discovery has also teamed up with Saildrone to give delegates an insight into remote deep-water multibeam survey operations, with a real-time demonstration of a Saildrone Surveyor USV fitted with EM304 MKII sensors and software.Each demonstration
Cable Incidents 'Exceptional' in Frequency, says Finnish Secret Service
are so many of these vessels in the Baltic Sea now that the likelihood of something happening is of course greater," Martelius said, referring to cable breaches and refusing to comment on ongoing investigations.Western countries should nevertheless take the threat against their critical underwater infrastructure seriously, he added."I would like to separate the anchors, whatever is behind those incidents, from the fact that there is a real threat against underwater critical infrastructure," he said, adding state actors had more effective capabilities for causing subsea destruction than
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