Iain Macneil, CEO of Witherbys, one of Scotland’s largest and most successful publishing companies, with specialist titles in the shipping sector, and a crew of four embarked on a first-of-its-kind circumnavigation at the start of December. They are attempting to complete a circumnavigation via the Southern Capes on board ASTRA, a historic vessel that served with the Swedish Sea Rescue Service between 1995 and 2016.
Innoceana is working to put an end to the brutal and costly net entanglement crisis. In the virtual film screening and discussion on December 9, you can learn how they leverage citizen science, animal rescue, and growing public pressure for policy change to manage the entanglement crisis and achieve an expanded marine protected area.
General Dynamics NASSCO began construction Wednesday of the fifth ship in the Navy’s expeditionary sea base program, a class of large ships with storerooms, barracks and a landing deck to support special-forces operations.
HSEQ-360 Ltd. has been selected for a long-term contract to provide health, safety, environmental and quality assurance services to Kincardine offshore wind farm. The site is the largest floating offshore wind farm in the world.
The WOC Seabed 2030 Online Seabed Data Workshop will take place virtually on December 8.
Craig N. McLean, assistant administrator of NOAA Research, who began his NOAA career as a uniformed officer in the NOAA Corps four decades ago and rose to lead the agency’s research division and become a champion of ocean exploration, scientific integrity and science diplomacy, has announced his plan to retire from public service on April 1, 2022.
DiveNET demonstrates its Sealink modems by exploring the USS Spirit of America shipwreck.
Scotland-based Innovo Engineering and Construction has secured £10,000 funding from the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) in conjunction with Strathclyde University, Glasgow, U.K. The funding will support a research and development project for Innovo’s innovative autonomous eco-robotic wind, solar and hydrogen fuel cell-powered surface vessel, Oceandrone.
The winners of the 2021 MTS SUT Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration and the MTS Compass Awards have been named.
FOWT 2021 will take place November 16 to 18 in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France.
