Spanish engineering firm Sener has completed conceptual design work on a new type of biofuel tanker and bunkering vessel. The new vessel has been designed to operate in compliance with the energy efficiency and emission reduction requirements of the IMO.
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Researchers walk along the bank of the Dead Sea, one of Earth’s saltiestbodies of water. It is nearly ten times saltier than the ocean.Credit: Nadav Lensky/Geological Survey of Israel. New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea’s floor, a finding that could help scientists understand how large salt deposits formed in
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University of Delaware researchers are studying how unexploded ordnance and munitions that were dumped in the oceans move underwater in order to better locate them for removal. They are using AUVs, sensors and positioning systems to study how fabricated surrogate munitions that they planted at a test site in Delaware Bay move over time depending on sediment, currents and storms.
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Chesapeake Technology, the company that makes SonarWiz data collection and post-processing software, has renewed its multi-year partnership with the BentProp Project, which has used SonarWiz software since Dec. 2010 to create and review sonar images to identify high-likelihood search targets such as planes on the seafloor. Hundreds of images are scanned each day during a typical one-month project. Since 2014,
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