Subsea & Survey News & Articles

Multi-Vessel Collaboration for Sonar Backscatter Calibration

The Ocean Exploration Trust has completed sonar backscatter calibrations that will provide valuable insights into the distribution of hard or soft habitats when combined with the readings of other NOAA ships

Aug 23, 2023
High-Energy Electromagnetic System for AUV Granted New Patent

The “Argeo Discover” by Argeo Robotics AS integrates high-energy electromagnetic signals with autonomous underwater vehicles, allowing insights such as size estimations of mineral deposits

Aug 18, 2023
Rovco Secures Survey Contract for Floating Offshore Wind Farm

Rovco has been awarded a contract by Flotation Energy to carry out a geo-environmental survey at its planned Cenos floating offshore windfarm, 200 kilometres off the north-east coast of Scotland

Aug 16, 2023
Construction of Low-Emission USV for Underwater Maintenance & Inspection

The vessel, with a length of 24 meters and a beam of 7.5 meters, will be remotely operated from an operation center on shore and equipped with an on-board sensor system

Jul 25, 2023
Pre-Seed Funding Raised to Revolutionize Underwater Inspections

subdron GmbH, a startup specializing in autonomous underwater navigation and data processing for advanced underwater inspections, has raised €1.3M in pre-seed funding

Jul 24, 2023
Fugro to Continue Mapping Norway’s Seabed

A survey vessel, equipped with advanced high-resolution, high-density multibeam echo sounders and sub-bottom data acquisition systems, will obtain comprehensive marine Geo-data for the mapping program

Jul 19, 2023
Expro to Deploy Advanced Subsea Technology in Gulf of Mexico

Expro’s high-debris single ball system, which delivers shear and post shear seal on a multitude of sizes of coiled tubing, slickline, and electrical cable, is a solution for both gas and liquid

Jul 14, 2023
MantaRay™ OBN Handling System Developed

PXGEO and Saab have collaborated to unlock the full potential of Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) seismic technology with the introduction the MantaRay OBN handling system

Jul 10, 2023
Next-Gen Underwater Lidar Technology for Detailed Mapping of Ocean Floor

The partnership between the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and 3D at Depth aims to create the next generation of subsea lidar technology that can generate detailed high-resolution maps of underwater features

Jul 04, 2023
Subsea Testing Tools Delivered for Subsea Construction Project in Brazil

C-Kore has delivered subsea testing tools, including the C-Kore Cable Monitor, Subsea TDR and Subsea Optical TDR, for deployment on a large subsea construction campaign in Brazil

Jul 03, 2023
Operational Planner Increases Uptime & Safety of Offshore Wind Farm Operations

The ABB Ability OCTOPUS – Marine Advisory System Operational Planner offers a first-of-its-kind capability to optimize remote maintenance of wind farm operations

Jun 28, 2023
New Concept USV for Offshore Wind Farm Development

Ørsted has successfully prototyped and patented the Hugin USV, a concept for uncrewed offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns required prior to the construction of new wind farms

Jun 23, 2023
Cellula Robotics & HonuWorx Underwater Technology Collaboration

Cellula will work with HonuWorx to demonstrate a ground-breaking technology using Cellula's extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle (XLUUV), Solus-XR

Jun 20, 2023
Bespoke Nitrox Commercial Diving System Delivered

Unique Group has delivered a fully bespoke Nitrox Commercial Diving System to OSC Marine. The system is compliant with IMCA guidelines and includes the NUVAIR Voyager IV nitrox generator

Jun 19, 2023
New BlueNERVE Network Connects Maritime Researchers Across the US

Improved data access and real-time insights from MITRE’s BlueTech lab and partner labs will accelerate maritime innovation

Jun 14, 2023
Autonomous Subsea Survey Vehicle Trials Completed

During the Loch Linnhe trials, vehicles demonstrated ability to transit and navigate accurately to a target location on the seabed, land, increase weight to couple to the seabed, record seismic data, take-off and navigate to a new location before returning to the surface

Jun 06, 2023
Wireless Modems Now Certified to Full Oceanic Depth

With a remarkable certification at 1200 bar of pressure, equivalent to a depth of 12,000 meters in the ocean, Hydromea's LUMA X-UV modems have surpassed previous limits

Jun 05, 2023
Woolpert Contracted for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data Collection in Alaska

The data will be used to support commercial fishing, shipping channels, coastal resilience, scientific research, and the Seabed 2030 collaborative project that aims to map the world’s ocean floor by 2030

Jun 02, 2023
NOAA & Proteus Group to Explore Uses of Underwater Lab

State-of-the-art ‘underwater habitat’ will allow governments, academia and public sector to deepen understanding of the ocean environment

May 31, 2023