deep ocean

Deep ocean search and recovery expert releases new book

A new book, Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss by Curt Newport, a deep ocean search & recovery expert who spent 50 years exploring ocean depths exceeding three miles, is now available.

Ready to Dive takes readers through some of the most daring deep ocean search and recovery operations of modern times. The author vividly recounts unwinding passenger clothing from submersible propellers during the Air India salvage, the delicate retrieval of volatile fuel-laden solid rocket...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/deep-ocean-search-and-recovery-expert-releases-new-book/

From Unlocking Ocean Mysteries To Ventures In Outer Space

Renowned explorer Robert Ballard has scoured the deep sea for decades in search of its mysteries. He and Alvin, a three-person submersible, returned to the site in 1986 to capture imagery revealing artifacts left behind by those who had perished. Ballard helped develop Alvin in the 1960s at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Together, he and Alvin have dived into the deep to observe underwater mountain ranges and uncover thermal vents. And now, 99% of the seafloor is...

https://mfame.guru/from-unlocking-ocean-mysteries-to-ventures-in-outer-space/

Scientists Unravel A Deep Sea “Mystery”

  • Some species of deep-sea fish have evolved blacker-than-black skin to protect them from being eaten – or to help them sneak up on fish they want to eat.
  • A study, published last week in the journal Current Biology, documents “ultra-blackness” in 16 species of deep-sea fish and suggests more could be found.
  • The discovery places the deep-sea species among the few animals to evolve ultra-black pigmentation, including Australasia’s birds of paradise and some butterflies and spiders.

In the dark...

https://mfame.guru/scientists-unravel-a-deep-sea-mystery/

Fleet Xpress supports deep sea exploration

Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress was chosen to provide connectivity assistance to the deep Ocean Research Institute, Nekton. Through their collaboration, Fleet Xpress will enable Nekton to capture underwater images from the floor of the Indian Ocean and then to be transmitted to the audience around global.

In fact, Fleet Data and Fleet Xpress capabilities will support the UK-based Institute to stream images from an ocean exploring vessel to shore, around Maldives and Seychelles.

For the records, this is...

https://safety4sea.com/fleet-xpress-supports-deep-sea-exploration/

Deep sea mining may be the future of electric cars

EU’s Blue Nodules project, which involves a host of different institutions and countries, focuses on a future of electric cars which to be achieved depend on mining, because of the crucial metals that exist on the ocean floor, as BBC reports.

Specifically, Laurens de Jonge, who’s running the EU project, says the transition to electric cars means that they need the ocean’s resources.

Demand is increasing through years for the metal cobalt, which is a basic ingredient in batteries and abundant in...

https://safety4sea.com/deep-sea-mining-may-be-the-future-of-electric-cars/

DeepGrean responds to Greenpeace’s report on deep sea mining

DeepGrean, a deep sea mining company, responded to Greenpeace’s report on deep sea mining and its harmful effects in the environment. The company although supports a part of the report, it cites some arguments regarding its point of view on the benefits arising from deep sea mining procedures.

Namely, in the early days of July, Greenpeace published the ‘In Deep Water: The emerging threat of deep sea mining‘ report, according to which deep sea mining is severe and potentially irreversible to...

https://safety4sea.com/deepgrean-responds-to-greenpeaces-report-on-deep-sea-mining/

Sabine-Neches waterway expansion starts in September

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Sabine-Neches Navigation District (SNND) signed the deal on July 29, marking the beginning of constructions of the channel improvement project in late September.

Namely, in light of the agreement, the Sabine-Neches Navigation District is a step closer to being able to accommodate larger vessels, after the deepening project is finished.

For the time being, the waterway has a 40-feet depth, which will be deepened and reach the 48 feet, whereas its...

https://safety4sea.com/sabine-neches-waterway-expansion-starts-in-september/

Ocean Observing System report card for 2019 launched

The Ocean Observing System report card that provides insight into the status of the global ocean observing system. Since the nations need that action has to be taken to tackle climate change, the report highlights the importance of sustained ocean monitoring.

Mainly, ocean observations provide critical data to nations for delivering marine weather and ocean services, to ensure safe and efficient maritime operations, and improving emergency response efficiency for extreme events.

So, to better...

https://safety4sea.com/ocean-observing-system-report-card-for-2019-launched/

World Economic Forum presents six projects in support of ocean sustainability

The World Economic Forum addresses six initiatives and attempts that make the future of the oceans be more positive and hopeful. Government and industries are cooperating to invent ocean solutions, while also new approaches to the ocean enable production and protection to operate together.

According to the Forum, the recent developments that provide a more hopeful future are:

  1. Indonesian Government and Partners make efforts to tackle plastic pollution:
    The Indonesian Government recently began...

https://safety4sea.com/world-economic-forum-presents-six-projects-in-support-of-ocean-sustainability/

Canada, Indigenous communities to use maritime information system

The Government of Canada stated that it supports a new maritime information system pilot project in partnership with the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Committee. Via the Oceans Protection Plan, the Government of Canada is collaborating with Indigenous people, local stakeholders and coastal communities to protect Canada’s unique marine environment from coast-to-coast-to-coast.

On May 2, Michael McLeod Member of Parliament for the Northwest Territories on behalf of the Honourable Marc Garneau,...

https://safety4sea.com/canada-indigenous-communities-to-use-maritime-information-system/

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