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FEATURES & VIDEOS

FEATURES & VIDEOS

Despite fears being raised over the risk of the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery lying laden with explosives off the coat of Kent, recent surveys have shown she remains stable.

27th March 2026

FEATURE: ​Living next to an explosive WW2 wreck

27th March 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

VESSELS

VESSELS

Steel has been cut on a unique ocean-going technology platform being built by the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR).

19th February 2026

German space centre cuts steel on ocean-going tech platform

19th February 2026

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

As offshore wind capacity deployment continues to scale, developers need increasingly detailed characterisation of the seafloor to de-risk engineering activities such as cable route planning, landfall design and foundation installation.

23rd January 2026

Offshore wind on the CUSP of SBP breakthrough

23rd January 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Europe’s offshore wind revolution is running into a hard physical limit – the electricity grid.

11th December 2025

Offshore wind’s sky-high potential hits onshore grid wall

11th December 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

UK firm Acteon has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Taiwan-based firm Wynnergy Marine to deliver offshore energy projects in the Taiwan region.

29th October 2025

UK deal boosts Taiwanese ambitions for offshore wind

29th October 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Norway-based shipbuilder Vard will design and build a US-based research vessel that it says will be one of the most modern research vessels ‘the world has seen’.

14th July 2025

Vard to build ground-breaking research vessel

14th July 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Seawork exhibitor Manor Marine will build and fully outfit two more USVs in the Zero USV Oceanus 12 series.

10th July 2025

Manor Marine wins contract for two more Zero USVs

10th July 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Neptune Marine has officially begun the construction of a new hybrid survey and remotely operated vehicle support vessel, with a keel laying ceremony held on 21 January at its facilities in Hardinxveld-Giessendam…

24th January 2025

Keel laid for new hybrid survey vessel

24th January 2025

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Ashtead Technology has made a ninth acquisition in seven years, this time to expand its survey and robotics rental services.

29th October 2024

Subsea tech firm dives deeper into robotics

29th October 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has ordered a research vessel from Spain’s Freire Shipyard.

19th August 2024

New research vessel ordered for Red Sea

19th August 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Dutch marine operator Royal Boskalis saw 5% increased revenue for the first half of 2024, calling the results ‘historically high’.

15th August 2024

Boskalis posts ‘historically high’ results for H1 2024

15th August 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

UTEC, part of the Acteon Group, has been awarded a three-year contract to provide hydrographic services to the Siemens Gamesa Butendiek offshore windfarm.

24th January 2024

Acteon inks major subsea service contract with Siemens

24th January 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The French marine measuring instrument designer, Neotek, is branching out into subsea data collection and processing.

18th January 2023

A portable green solution to data collection

18th January 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Kongsberg Maritime has secured a delivery contract for a HUGIN Endurance AUV System placed by an undisclosed partner.

2nd November 2022

Anonymous partner places order for HUGIN

2nd November 2022

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fugro’s new geotechnical system has successsfully completed its first offshore wind project.

12th July 2022

Geophysical survey first for Fugro

12th July 2022

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

ROV operators can now benefit from a high degree of automation during planning, inspection and reporting

9th March 2022

ROV software brings new user experience

9th March 2022

OCEAN SCIENCES

OCEAN SCIENCES

A marine environmental consulting and survey company, recently completed a ground-breaking deepwater sampling campaign.

22nd January 2022

World’s deepest pelagic biota sampling campaign

22nd January 2022

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A specialist in high resolution sonar imaging systems and underwater technology, has recently introduced a new combined swath bathymetry & side scan sonar system.

19th January 2022

Combining swath bathymetry and side scan sonar

19th January 2022