Ocean Power Technologies’ anchor for a PB150 PowerBuoy wave energy system installed offshore Oregon coast may be missing, The World Link informs. The company announced plans to install two more anchors this spring, but it’s now uncertain about the location of the first anchor’s subsurface float. The float represents the intermediary between the buoy and [...]
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Researchers from the University of Victoria, Canada (UVic), will be in the Arctic this summer with their autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to assist Parks Canada as it continues its search for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin. Underwater archeologists from Parks Canada have recently spent three field seasons searching for HMS Erebus and HMS [...]
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The Philippine Air Force received assistance from the United States in quest for the trainer plane that crashed off Mariveles, Bataan, Globalnation Inquirer reports. Air Force spokesman Colonel Miguel Ernesto Okol stated: “That is a welcome development for us. Any help from an allied force such as the US enhances our interoperability with them as [...]
A Royal Netherlands Navy submarine, HNLMS K XVI, which went down in 1941 with its 36-man crew, six of whom of Indonesian nationality, has been found. Following up a tip-off in October 2011 by a local fisherman who had spotted a wreck, an Australian-Singaporean team of amateur scuba divers discovered the Dutch World Warr II [...]
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Statoil ends the search for the 48-year-old man who was reported missing on the Visund platform in the North Sea on Thursday 6 October. The search of the seabed around the platform was unsuccessful. Boats and helicopters have been involved in the search for the missing man. A search party and dog have searched [...]
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![Police Arrives to Visund to Search for Missing Man (Norway)]()
The police are going to Visund today, and have started investigations after a 48-year-old man was reported missing from the Visund platform on Thursday. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre has finished its search, but Statoil is continuing to look for the missing man using helicopters and boats. A search-and-rescue dog from Norske Redningshunder was [...]
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The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre finished the search for a 48-year-old man who is missing on the Visund platform yesterday at 18:00 hrs., concluding, on an overall basis, that it is not likely to find the man alive in the sea. Statoil will continue to search the waters , using the Stril Herkules vessel. [...]
![Statoil Reports Missing Person at Visund Installation (Norway)]()
A person has been reported missing after not showing up for work this morning at the Visund installation. The installation is in the North Sea and is operated by Statoil. A search of the installation started at once. The search has now been extended to the sea. Helicoptres and vessels are conducting the search. [...]
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![Search for Two Missing Fishermen in Irish Sea Continues]()
Naval patrol vessel Le Emer has arrived to co-ordinate the search for two fishermen missing in the Irish Sea… (independent) Source: independent , April 05, 2011;
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A miniature robotic submarine will descend into the North Thompson River in search of Gibsons May Milling when the weather improves. (coastreporter) Source: coastreporter ,February 21, 2011;
