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Nominations Open for Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration

Awarded jointly by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) and the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) , the Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding, sustained, international contribution to the development, application or propagation of marine/underwater technology toward the advancement of ocean exploration.  Nomination details for the award are at: https://bit.ly/3fyiXIs, www.sut.org and www.mtsociety.org. The closing date for nominations is May 31, 2021. The award is named in

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$7M Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Announces Semifinalists

Nineteen semifinalists will undergo the first round of judging in the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a $7 million competition geared toward deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast and high-resolution ocean exploration and mapping of the ocean floor. The 19 semifinalist teams are working on projects including: “hybrid systems that mobilize gliders and drones, underwater robotic swarms, autonomous underwater vehicles, robotics, artificial intelligence and

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