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U.S.’s First ‘Underwater Wind Turbine’ Installed in The Mississippi River

admin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:49:43 +0000

The nation’s first commercial hydrokinetic turbine, which harnesses the power from moving water without the construction of a dam, has splashed into the waters of the Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota.

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ST Engineering-Contract for Survey Vessel

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:49:43 +0000

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) announced that its marine arm, Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), has secured a S$30m contract to provide detailed design, construction and outfitting of a 228 ft seismic survey vessel for Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd (SPO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited. (more…)

The spacecraft and the submarine

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:40:49 +0000

Deep sea explorers often compare what they do with space exploration, many times only superficially and rarely favorably to the space explorers, whom they believe get too much money. It is common for books on undersea exploration to include a throwaway comment about how we know far more about the surface of the Moon than the bottom of the ocean, or how more people have been into space, or on the Moon, than have reached the bottom of the sea. (more…)

Peru wants to know origin of shipwrecked treasure

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:27:18 +0000

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Peru’s government wants to know if 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean last year were made there, complicating the legal quest to determine who rightfully owns the multimillion-dollar treasure.
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Robot sub discovers secrets of the deep that could predict a natural disaster

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:24:52 +0000

One of the world’s deepest-diving robot submarines has returned from its first mission with spectacular images of giant holes on the seabed and evidence of underwater avalanches. (more…)

2,500-Year-Old Greek Ship Raised off Sicilian Coast

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:20:34 +0000

An ancient Greek ship recently raised off the coast of southern Sicily, Italy, is the biggest and best maintained vessel of its kind ever found, archaeologists say.
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Sub to make deep Caribbean dive

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:14:33 +0000

Scientists are set to explore the world’s deepest undersea volcanoes, which lie 6km down in the Caribbean.

Delving into uncharted waters to hunt for volcanic vents will be Autosub6000, Britain’s new autonomously controlled, robot submarine. (more…)

Peter the Great’s Ship Discovered in Baltic Sea

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:10:57 +0000

Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of a Russian battleship designed by Peter the Great in Amsterdam and which played a key role in a 1719 victory over Sweden in a war on the Baltic Sea.
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Old wreck’s treasures could be lost forever

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:05:55 +0000

An 18th-century shipwreck at Bracklesham Bay may become a lost jewel after English Heritage deemed it to be at high risk of disappearing from the nation because of erosion and natural processes.
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World’s fastest submarine goes under

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:03:56 +0000

The legendary Russian K-222 nuclear submarine – known as Papa in the West – is being scrapped. Dubbed ‘Golden Fish’ by Russian sailors because of the colour of its titanium alloy hull, it has been the world’s fastest underwater vessel for almost 40 years.
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Russian submersibles to explore Lake Baikal

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:51:31 +0000

Kaliningrad (Russia), (RIA Novosti)

Two Russian submersibles will make their first dive at Russia’s Lake Baikal as part of scientific research for the Russian Academy of Sciences, a spokesman said Wednesday. (more…)

In Arctic ‘cold war,’ Russia plows ahead

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:42:35 +0000

A new cold war is breaking out in the race for Arctic oil, natural gas and minerals, and it involves front-line icebreakers. Russia has seven and the United States has three, if you count one that’s laid up in Seattle and won’t be seaworthy for a year.

The competition is heating up because of global warming and high energy prices. They’ve made the Arctic coastline and seafloor, despite their harsh climate, one of the most appealing places in the world for energy exploration. Much the same goes for the gold, platinum, copper and other metals found along the Arctic coast and likely in its continental shelves. (more…)

China to deploy first mooring system in the Arctic

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:21:13 +0000

China will install its first annual deep-sea subsurface mooring system in the Arctic Ocean to monitor the long-term marine changes in the Arctic ocean, members of China’s third Arctic expedition said Sunday.
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2500-year-old Greek ship salvaged off Sicily

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:40:48 +0000

ROME, July 28 (Xinhua) — An ancient Greek trading ship that has lain on the seabed off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily for 2,500 years was brought to the surface for the first time on Monday
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Apollo HID and HMI Video Lighting

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:39:59 +0000

Whether building specialty lighting systems for National Geographic sponsored projects or providing crucial lighting for productions on Japan’s powerhouse entity NHK, Halcyon can increasingly be found center stage with the innovative HID and HMI Apollo Video Lighting Systems.

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The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:37:22 +0000

At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea

But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels.

This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants.
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Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:56:42 +0000

BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
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Prehistoric find located beneath the Swiss waves

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:46:23 +0000

Archaeologists have discovered traces of Switzerland’s oldest known building, but it will never draw tourists: it lies underwater in the middle of a lake.
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U.S. Gives Russia Data on Mysterious Cold War Sunken Submarine K-129

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:39:35 +0000

By MIKE ECKEL
The Associated Press
Monday, September 10, 2007; 4:07 PM

MOSCOW — U.S. military officials on Monday gave Russia a videotape and other archival materials on the Soviet K-129 submarine, whose sinking in 1968 is one of the lingering mysteries of the Cold War.
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Dover Strait U-boat to be moved

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:36:58 +0000

The wreck of a World War I German submarine is to be moved because it is a danger to shipping off Dover.
The U-boat, which has been in the Dover Strait since 1918, is 23.5m (77ft) below the surface, which does not leave enough clearance for modern ships.
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