Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The discovery was made almost a mile below the surface in an undersea crater and includes the find of at least nine new species of deep-sea organisms thriving on [...]
A collaboration between the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton is to develop an instrument capable of simulating the high pressures and low temperatures needed to create hydrate in sediment samples. Dr Angus Best of NOC and Professors Tim Leighton and Paul White from the University of Southampton’s Institute of Sound and [...]
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The U.S. Navy has announced that, together with the Chilean Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA), it plans to research possible alterations to the subsea floor caused by the earthquake and tsunami in February 2010, reports Santiago Times. The research vessel USNS Pathfinder will conduct the investigation in the Bay of Concepción and the Gulf [...]
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Offshore Energy 2012 Exhibition & Conference, the only event dedicated to the offshore energy in The Netherlands, is almost fully booked. The two-day event on 23 & 24 October in Amsterdam RAI will welcome an expected 400 exhibitors, 6.500 visitors and 600 delegates from over 30 nationalities. More than 370 exhibitors have already secured their [...]
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NOAA researchers are getting a comprehensive view of the ocean floor using a new instrument, and have confirmed that… Source: NOAA, August 27, 2012; Image: NOAA
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As reported by ABC News, Inpex, an energy giant, in preparation for a dredging project in Darwin Harbour, will survey the harbour floor. Starting this week the survey will commence. Divers, survey boats as well as barges will begin the project in the channel area. Inpex needs the survey data to get a detailed map [...]
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Leading pipe handling equipment supplier, Blohm & Voss Oil Tools announces the SureGrip 500 floor slip, the first of a new generation of floor slip power tools using First Subsea’s ball and taper gripping technology to provide improved drill pipe handling. Designed for loads up to 500 tonne, the Blohm & Voss SureGrip 500 floor [...]
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NOAA has made sea floor maps and other data on the world’s coasts, continental shelves and deep ocean available for easy viewing online… Source: NOAA , April 17, 2012; Image: NOAA
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Scientists have found a large reduction in the amount of the coldest deep ocean water, called Antarctic Bottom Water, all around the Southern Ocean using data collected from 1980 to 2011. These findings, in a study now online, will likely stimulate new research on the causes of this change. Two oceanographers from NOAA and the [...]
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Researchers studying microbes that live near deep-sea hydrothermal vents have discovered a living, biological ‘power plant’ according to… Bryan Nelson (mnn) Source: mnn , December 12, 2011
