by Suzanne OConnell (Wesleyan University) My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location. It’s the JOIDES Resolution, an internationally funded research drillship that has spent its service life…
https://gcaptain.com/joides-resolution-floating-marine-laboratory-changed-ocean-science/
In a world-first, researchers have captured video of a basking shark, an endangered species, being struck by a boat off the coast of Ireland. The footage, obtained mere hours after…
https://gcaptain.com/groundbreaking-footage-captures-first-ever-boat-strike-on-endangered-shark/
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, the UK’s polar research vessel, recently had a close encounter with the A23a mega iceberg, the largest iceberg in the world. The enormous iceberg, spanning…
https://gcaptain.com/rrs-sir-david-attenborough-encounters-worlds-largest-iceberg/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $624.6 million contract to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors to design and build two state-of-the-art research vessels. The contract includes an option to…
https://gcaptain.com/noaa-awards-625-million-contract-for-cutting-edge-research-vessels/
Research vessel formerly owned by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen tips over in dry dock, injuring 25. LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) – Twenty-five people were injured when a ship came off its holding…
https://gcaptain.com/25-injured-as-research-vessel-tips-over-in-dry-dock/
ROME, Jan 31 (Reuters) – An Italian ice-breaker carrying scientists researching in the Antarctic has sailed further south than any ship has done before, the organizers of the voyage said on Tuesday,…
https://gcaptain.com/as-ice-recedes-italian-ship-makes-record-journey-into-the-antarctic/
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking proposals from U.S. shipbuilders for the design and construction of two new ocean survey ships for the agency. The new…
by Sarah Fawcett– (The Conversation)-It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance. It was an ill-fated journey: the…
https://gcaptain.com/the-icebreaker-that-found-the-endurance-is-vital-for-climate-science/
The Royal Navy research ship HMS Protector is making a rare visit to the remote South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean to study the penguin population and the…
NOAA and partners have joined together to launch approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction. These will bolster…