SEA-KIT has agreed the sale of its Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) to ThayerMahan, a US-based company specializing in autonomous maritime solutions.
Norway’s DeepOcean and Akvaplan-niva, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), have partnered up to cooperate on the potential use of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and unmanned glider vehicles (USVs) for environmental studies for offshore wind and oil & gas developments
Lloyd’s Register has awarded its first certification for an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) to the DriX maritime surface drone. The DriX USV, developed by iXblue and ECA Group under the new joint brand called Exail, has already received Bureau Veritas Approval in Principle (AiP). The new certification
Blue Ocean Seismic Services (BOSS) has completed a series of passive and active seismic trials for its Marine Swarm Robotics technology, putting it on track to commence pre-commercial trials in the second half of 2023. Backed by bp Ventures, Woodside Energy and Blue Ocean Monitoring, BOSS is develop
Reach Subsea has secured a conditional Letter of Award (LOA) for a project in West Africa, through which it will be a sub-contractor to a “major tier-one contractor”. The assignment includes support for the installation and anchoring of an offshore unit, as well as survey and positioning tasks to be
Argeo has secured the first contract for its vessel Argeo Searcher and both SeaRaptor autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) which will see them deployed for ultra deep-water work in the North Atlantic. Work is scheduled to commence directly after the vessel conversion is finished in January, with a
SEA-KIT International has secured funding through the second round of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) to design a hydrogen-powered, zero-emission uncrewed surface vessel (USV). SEA-KIT and Bramble Energy will implement outputs from a Round 1 project that marinized a printed circu
The Saab Seaeye Falcon underwater robot is taking part in a project in Angola that will see the transformation of an oil platform into an artificial reef. The Falcon is assisting in the survey and mapping of underwater components, including checking the wellhead, pipelines and the surrounding mariti
The developers of the West of Orkney Windfarm have completed its 2022 offshore and nearshore surveys for the project area, located around 25 kilometres off the Sutherland coast in Scotland. This milestone achievement covered geophysical and benthic surveys of the seabed across the 675 km2 offshore o
Fugro has launched its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in Abu Dhabi, said to be the region’s first such vessel. The 12-meter USV was launched at Mugharraq port and sailed to its new home in Al Mirfa by Fugro’s control and command center in the UAE. The Al Mirfa port will be the home to th
Argeo’s recently-launched Argus uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) has secured its first project which will be carried out in the renewables market starting in late October. Argus will perform high-resolution mapping of the seafloor and shallow geology, necessary for the planning of offshore installatio
Van Oord’s next-generation green cable-laying vessel Calypso has been launched at VARD’s Tulcea shipyard in Romania. Van Oord laid the keel for its new 130-metre cable-laying vessel in December last year. The Dutch company placed an order with VARD for Calypso a year before the keel laying ceremony
Nauticus Robotics is set to ring the NASDAQ closing bell this week, celebrating the recent closing of its business combination with CleanTech Acquisition Corp. (CLAQ). The ceremony will be held on Thursday, 20 October, and will mark the associated listing of Nauticus’ common stock and warrants on NA
SeeByte has integrated its SeeTrack multi-domain, command and control software into Kongsberg’s Hugin Superior autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). According to SeeByte, SeeTrack v4 offers optimal goal-based planning and interoperability with other SeeTrack users and its Open Architecture allows int
