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Teledyne Marine Vehicles Expands Direct-to-Customer Service, Support in the United Kingdom

Teledyne Marine Vehicles has announced a major expansion of its direct-to-customer service capabilities in the United Kingdom, reinforcing its commitment to delivering world-class support to its regional customer base.As part of this strategic investment, Teledyne has opened new repair facilities in Fareham, co-located with Teledyne Raymarine, augmenting the existing Slocum glider facility in Southampton at the prestigious National Oceanographic Center. The Fareham facility will support Teledyne’s full range of unmanned underwater vehicles, including Teledyne Gavia AUVs, Teledyne Webb

Source: NOAA

Mini USV Collects Data in a Category 5 Hurricane

A small, wind–powered uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) captured and transmitted data from inside a Category 5 hurricane on September 28, as part of research by NOAA, the United Kingdom-based robotics company, Oshen, and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM).NOAA has teamed up with Oshen and USM to operate seven USVs called C-Stars to gather weather data from the surface of the ocean during the 2025 hurricane season.During Hurricane Humberto, one of the C-Stars became the smallest USV to gather data from the eyewall of the Category 5 hurricane. Two other C-Stars penetrated Hurricane Humberto

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Third Phase of Deep-Sea Mining Impact Research Begins

and national authorities.MiningImpact is funded under the Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans). The consortium brings together the expertise of 34 institutions from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. The results are intended to directly inform the ongoing work of the International Seabed Authority and support evidence-based policymaking.  

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HII, Babcock Integrate UUVs with Submarine Weapon Handling and Launch Systems

. This joint initiative builds on Babcock and HII’s strategic partnership started in 2023, and the U.S. Navy’s first successful forward-deployed UUV launch and recovery via torpedo tube, using an HII REMUS. Babcock’s WHLS are currently in service with the submarine fleets of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Spain and South Korea.The U.S. Navy’s milestone operation underscores a broader transformation in undersea warfare: the growing demand for integrated manned-autonomous operations that extend reach, enhance stealth, and reduce operational risk. 

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Sensitive Mesophotic Ecosystems in Cyprus Threatened by Human Impact

protection measures such as spatial restrictions on damaging activities and active management/removal of litter and lost gear, together with long-term, systematic scientific monitoring.The program was implemented by the Marine & Environmental Research (MER) Lab and funded by the Government of the United Kingdom through Darwin Plus (DPL00075)

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Teledyne Marine Awarded Long-Term Contract to Support REPMUS Exercises

Teledyne Marine has announced the award of a strategic long-term contract with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide support for the annual REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Unmanned Systems) exercises starting this year.REPMUS 2025 will take place from September 8 to 25, 2025, in Tróia and Sesimbra, Portugal. Organized by the Portuguese Navy in collaboration with NATO, the event brings together over 2,000 participants from allied navies, industry, academia, and international organizations.This multi-year agreement underscores Teledyne’s

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Metron, Cellula Robotics Complete Multi-Mission Open-Water UUV Demonstration

Analysis – While still on the water, logs were downloaded and replayed using ANCC’s user interface, Periscope, to verify mission success.Look ahead, Metron and Cellula Robotics will expand open-water demonstrations throughout 2025 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom

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First Steel Cut for HVAC Infrastructure for Belgian Offshore Energy Hub

to the sharp global increase in the price of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology and related offshore services.The ambitions for this phase remain unchanged - to expand the offshore wind capacity in Belgium’s second offshore wind zone and to realize a second interconnector with the United Kingdom. Elia will work closely with the government, the Commission for Electricity and Gas Regulation (CREG) and other stakeholders to assess all of the options and assess what the most efficient and cost-effective approach will be.Princess Elisabeth offshore energy hub will be the world’s first

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Seequent’s Visible Geology Used By 90,000 Worldwide

around the globe have reported a notable decline in enrollments for earth science programs even as the need for earth scientists to help challenges like climate change and energy transition increases.In Australia, for example, geoscience enrollments fell by 40 per cent between 2013 and 2020. The United Kingdom experienced a 43% decrease in geology student numbers since 2014. According to the American Geosciences Institute, the US expects a shortage of 130,000 geoscientists by 2030. Seequent’s goal is to combat this crisis by using innovative educational tools to inspire the future generation

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