Concern has been raised over the possible impact of proposed Chatham Rock Phosphate’s mining activities for phosphorite nodules on the crest of the Chatham Rise on the larval, post-larval puerulus, and benthic phases of red rock lobsters, Jasus edwardsii. Due to the restriction of juvenile and adult phase red rock lobsters to depths less than [...]
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The Pacific Islands need to protect their deep sea minerals, Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Samiu Vaipulu told a Pacific-ACP States Regional Workshop on Deep Sea Minerals Law and Contract Negotiations that opened at the Fa’onelua Convention Centre, in Nuku’alofa on March 11. Representatives of 15 Pacific States were attending the week-long workshop. Mike Petterson [...]
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FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, provides the following update in respect of 3D seismic operations. The PGS M/V Ramform Sterling has commenced a 3D seismic survey over the mid Cretaceous Diomedia fan complex within the southern area licences. [...]
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FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, announces that the necessary repairs were carried out on the blow-out preventer (BOP), which revealed a malfunction during a routine test in October. The BOP on the Scotia well was repaired within the [...]
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Last week, during the EEA grant conference arranged by Innovation Norway and CDTI in Bergen, the Norwegian company Langlee Wave Power and Repnaval Shipyard (Zamakona Yards) signed an agreement for the development of wave power in the Canary islands. The two companies will file a common application to the EEA grants for development of renewable [...]
Seventy years after it was scuttled off Los Angeles, Calif., government archaeologists have found the wrecked remains of a rare Pacific Coast schooner that was employed in the lumber trade during the early 1900s. Today, Robert Schwemmer, maritime archaeologist for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, presented a scientific paper on the George E. Billings [...]
During April 2012 EGS (International) Ltd were contracted to carry out a pre-installation cable route survey between the Orkney Islands and the Scottish north coast at Caithness. The scope of work involved a geophysical survey of a 70km long 560m wide cable route corridor, a geotechnical survey along the route comprising cone penetration tests (CPTs), [...]
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A Pelydryn survey team has returned from successful deployment of the HawkEye IIb in Malta assisting TerraImaging in the production of the first fully integrated Topograhic LiDAR, Bathymetric LiDAR, side-sonar and Multibeam Echosounder datasets of a nation’s entire Economic Exclusion Zone. Pelydryn’s part in the project, which is being carried out by leading geospatial data [...]
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Orkney Islands Council has announced tender for tidal energy consultancy services worth approximately between £275,000 and £300,000. The services included in the tender are the investigation and detailed solutions for the wave overtopping problem generated from the East at No 2 Churchill barrier, Holm Sound, Orkney, as well as the review of data and study [...]
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Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change could cause ocean currents to operate in a surprising way and mitigate the warming near a handful of islands right on the equator. [...]
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