Oslo-headquartered Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) has ordered two more Skywalker class walk-to-work commissioning service operations vessels (CSOVs). The vessels are scheduled for delivery in first half 2024 from China Merchants Industry, Hong Kong. Currently IWS has two identical vessels on order for delivery in 2023 and option agreements for up to two additional vessels for potential second-half 2024 delivery.
The firm shipyard price for the two just-ordered vessels is about EUR 48 milion...
Sponges are considered to be one of the most primitive forms of animal life, because they have neither locomotion organs nor a nervous system, reports AWI.
A team around deep-sea scientist Antje Boetius has now discovered that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea. They conclude that the animals might move actively – even if only a few centimetres per year. They are now publishing these unique findings in the journal Cur...
https://mfame.guru/deep-sea-expedition-leads-to-a-shocking-find/
The German Research Vessel Polarstern has made a remarkable circumnavigation of Antarctica’s latest mega-iceberg, reports BBC.
The achieved featThe ship sailed a complete circuit of the 1,290-sq-km (500 sq miles) frozen block, known as A74, at the weekend. To do so, RV Polarstern had to navigate the very narrow channel that separates A74 from the Brunt Ice Shelf – the frozen floating platform from which the berg broke two weeks ago.
The EU’s Sentinel-2 satellite managed to image the ship in the...
https://mfame.guru/rv-polarstern-successfully-circumnavigates-antarcticas-mega-iceberg/