A team of scientists are embarking on an ambitious 30-day scientific expedition on board the UK Antarctic research ship Sir David Attenborough to investigate how carbon dioxide moves and transforms in the Southern Ocean. The ship will head to the Weddell Sea from Punta Arenas in Chile to begin the...
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VESSEL REVIEW | Te Runanga – New Zealand’s Westfleet welcomes Southern Ocean ling catcher
Greymouth, New Zealand-based fishing company Westfleet Seafoods recently took delivery of a new longline fishing vessel built by compatriot shipyard the AIMEX Service Group. Designed by Australian naval architecture firm Oceantech, the vessel has been named Te Runanga after a town in New Zealand’s...
Underwater mountain range discovered in Southern Ocean
An Australian and international research voyage has mapped a highly energetic “hotspot” in the world’s strongest current simultaneously by ship and satellite, and uncovered an underwater mountain range. Halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica, the block of the Southern Ocean surveyed in high-resolution, three-dimensional detail stretches over an area of 20,000 square kilometres down through layers […]
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Fishing Vessel News Roundup | January 5 – Norwegian netting boat delivery, Southern Ocean scampi vessel order and more
An Iceland-based builder hands over a new netting boat to an owner in Norway and a crab boat for a Russian Far East operator hits the water. Orders have meanwhile been pl ..
OPINION | Quad maritime security initiative holds promise for the Indo-Pacific’s southern flank
At the recent Quad leaders’ summit in Tokyo, Australia, India, Japan and the US launched the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness, an initiative aimed ..
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VESSEL REVIEW | Polar Bay – Spanish-owned factory longliner boasts harsh weather capability
Tersan Shipyard of Turkey recently delivered a new factory longliner to Spanish fishing company Polar. Polar Bay was designed by Norway’s Marin Teknikk in compliance to ..
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OPINION | Navigating the limits in the South China Sea
Barely noticed, but nevertheless of some international legal consequence, is the latest effort by the United States to cast doubt upon the legality of Chinese maritime cl ..
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Royal New Zealand Navy supply ship sails for Antarctica
Following its deployment to Tonga to provide essential aid supplies, refueling services and water generation, the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) fleet supply ship HMNZS Ao ..
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World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date, German marine ..
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NASA Supported Study Confirms Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Carbon
Story by Sofie Bates, NASA’s Earth Science News Team— New observations from research aircraft indicate that the Southern Ocean absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases, confirming that…
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