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Hydroid has recognized the Sensor & Weapon Systems Department within the Royal Netherlands Navy’s Directorate of Materiel Sustainment as an authorized REMUS Service Center. Hydroid presented the Directorate with a plaque on September 12, 2018 recognizing its commitment to excellence in AUV service a
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), connecting Africa and the Americas, has now come on stream and it’s open for commercial traffic, Angola Cables informed. The SACS from Angola Cables was manufactured and powered by NEC Corporation and is one of the most advanced submarine telecommunications sy
ASL Environmental Sciences has appointed Dr. Steve Pearce to the position of acoustics scientist. Pearce brings over a decade of experience in underwater acoustics R&D to the ASL team. Prior to joining ASL, Pearce was a system engineer at Kongsberg Mesotech and managed projects relating to singlebea
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has recently purchased and trialled a new type of marine robot called a Deepglider. The vehicle will join the NMF-MARS glider fleet, and will allow the UK science community to collect water column data at depths of up to 6000 metres. The new Deepglider is simil
After seven years serving as a professor at Delft University of Technology, Mr. Tiedo Vellinga recently assumed the new title of Professor Emeritus of Ports and Waterways. During his concurrent career at the Port of Rotterdam Authority, he practiced what he preached, constantly challenging the statu
Engineering consultancy BMT and subsea technology company Sonardyne have signed an agreement to provide marine integrity monitoring solutions to the oil and gas industry. The official teaming agreement between BMT and Sonardyne, announced today at the Rio Oil & Gas exhibition and conference in Brazi
Infinera, provider of intelligent transport networks, said it has successfully completed a series of record-breaking submarine field trials over MAREA, a 6,600-kilometer submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. The trials used Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity
Okeanus Science & Technology (Okeanus) has delivered the Okeanus model ECO 2000 all-electric winch to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). The ECO 2000 winch is designed for a wide variety of oceanographic applications such as water sample profiling, CTD, towing, bottom grab samplin
Delmar Systems has received a mooring contract for the Development Driller III semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig for ExxonMobil’s drilling campaign offshore Equatorial Guinea. Under the contract Delmar will provide engineering design services, project management, mooring equipment, and m
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ beach re-nourishment operations along Myrtle Beach, S.C., following Hurricane Florence, are moving forward. These operations, undertaken by Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD), are designed to help rehabilitate shorelines in order to mitigate the risk of stor
FMGC has recently installed the cast iron shells (IBOCS) – developed to ballast subsea electrical cables – at a depth of 30 meters on the Centrale Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site. These tests are part of the FORESEA project, which aims to help bring marine renewable energy (MRE) technologies to ma
GZA GeoEnvironmental has begun offshore geotechnical engineering program for Deepwater Wind in Rhode Island Sound. Working from a 200-foot class lift boat mobilized earlier this month from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, a 28-person GZA-led crew is now taking and evaluating soil samples from the sea fl
Kongsberg Maritime has secured an approximately $13 million contract to equip a new heavy lift crane vessel for Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) with an appropriately innovative technology suite. The vessel, a customised Ulstein Design & Solutions design, marks the entry of the Norway-based Offshore H
