AUVs

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to provide an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) hangar and launch and recovery system for a new research vessel being built by Vard for Inkfish. The system combines a dedicated AUV hangar with subsea docking…

30th September 2026

Kongsberg Maritime to deliver AUV hangar and subsea docking system

30th September 2026

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is boosting its expansion into the underwater technology sector, agreeing to buy majority stakes in four Italian companies that specialise in subsea services.

8th July 2026

Fincantieri’s €600m deep dive puts on show of underwater force

8th July 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

With Oceanology International awash with launches this year, it would be impossible to list all of them. Here is a sample of some of them.

11th March 2026

Subsea launches galore at Oceanology International

11th March 2026

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

It seems the sky is no longer the limit for Kongsberg Discovery, which is moving into outer space in a giant leap into the future.

23rd February 2026

PODCAST: From ocean to orbit – KD takes Giant Leap

23rd February 2026

EVENTS

EVENTS

Join speakers from the International Marine Contractors’ Association (IMCA) to look at where we are with global regulations in shipping when it comes to autonomy.

11th February 2026

Autonomy at sea: Navigate upcoming rules with IMCA

11th February 2026

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

For all the talk of autonomy in cars, drones, and aircraft, the most demanding frontier remains largely invisible.

23rd January 2026

Cutting the umbilical: Dynautics dives in with ‘Phantom Two’

23rd January 2026

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

As global tensions spread to threatening Europe’s critical underwater infrastructure, particularly in the Baltic Sea region, governments are addressing the challenges of protecting vital subsea links requiring potentially military-level responses but involving…

15th December 2025

Subsea sabotage – the hidden front of warfare

15th December 2025

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

New Seawork exhibitor Dynautics has unveiled its Phantom II AUV, which will be demonstrated at the event in June next year.

8th October 2025

Modular underwater vehicle finishes sea trials

8th October 2025

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Kongsberg Discovery has successfully completed acceptance testing of its HUGIN Superior Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the US Navy.

24th February 2025

HUGIN AUV boosts US Navy’s subsea capabilities

24th February 2025

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Henriksen’s launch and recovery systems (LARS), on show at Seawork in June, remain very straightforward, even though the latest iterations are fitted to extremely sophisticated boats, writes Stevie Knight.

24th September 2024

Simple Stinger solution for sophisticated boats

24th September 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Firms are putting themselves forward to clear more than a million tonnes of World War II ammunition that still lie dumped on the seabed around Germany’s coastline.

27th August 2024

FEATURE: Clearing Germany’s WWII subsea ammo

27th August 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Teledyne Gavia has announced a major expansion of its Engineering and Production facilities in Kopavogur, Iceland, in response to growing demand for its advanced Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).

13th August 2024

Teledyne Gavia expands production to meet AUV boom

13th August 2024

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

In a groundbreaking deep water trial off the coast of Madeira, an autonomous underwater vehicle has successfully completed a spiral behaviour mission, providing vertical profiling of the water column down to 2,000…

8th August 2024

Deep water data sub successfully trialled

8th August 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Teledyne Gavia’s brand new Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Service Center has been opened by Enamor Ltd in Gdynia, Poland.

24th July 2024

Teledyne’s new European service centre for AUVs

24th July 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A new partnership has been formed with Exail, RTsys and ABYSSA under the CARMA project which focuses on developing swarms of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for efficient ocean floor mapping.

17th July 2024

Expanding AUV mapping abilities

17th July 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

French high-tech firm Exail has carried out the first sea trials of an uncrewed surface vessel it launched at this year’s Oceanology show.

7th June 2024

Exail conducts first USV sea trials

7th June 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Marine technology company Ocean Infinity talks about data management in operations where more and more remote and autonomous vessels are being deployed.

15th January 2024

Marine data in tomorrow’s remote and autonomous world

15th January 2024