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Issue number no.58, Thursday, 10th August 2006 |
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The monthly Newsletter from marinescienceandtechnology.com, bringing you a fresh view on news and activity from the worlds marine science & technology community. This issue includes news from around the world and events taking place this month.
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Revised search and rescue and bulker safety rules enter into force
Amendments to two key safety conventions designed to safeguard the integrity of the global search and rescue system and boost bulker safety have officially entered into force. The changes to search and rescue procedures come following a sweeping International Maritime Organization review of existing regulations, while, in a separate set of amendments, the IMO has added the requirements for bulk carriers of double-side skin construction as an optional alternative to single-side skin construction. |
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The ferry that will not even touch the water
The French Government has awarded a £300,000 prize to Focus 21, a Marseilles company that is developing the Aéroptère, a version of the Wing-In-Ground-Effect or wingboat craft, to have a prototype flying within three years. |
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Accidents 'caused by inadequate manuals'
A study by the Confidential Hazardous Incident Reporting Programme has concluded that accidents are being caused by the inadequacy of operating and maintenance manuals being supplied to ships. |
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New web-based Digital Tidal Atlas for Singapore launched
 Homegrown company info@SEA, a joint venture of the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore and its two European partners, British Maritime Technology and Denmark-based DHI Water and Environment, has unveiled a Digital Tidal Atlas that can to provide timely information about tides and currents in Singapore waters. |
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Intensive care heals damaged coral reefs
Conservationists are attempting to repair and rebuild coral reefs in an effort to rectify the damage done by human neglect and natural disasters to these ecosystems, some of the oldest and most diverse on Earth. |
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BMT SeaTech studies harbor re-design plan
 BMT SeaTech Ltd., a subsidiary of BMT Ltd., has completed a comprehensive study for Defense Estates South West. Forming part of the Portsmouth Harbour Regeneration Project, the study looked at the re-design of the deep water channel for Portsmouth Harbour in the light of its use by large future warships for the Royal Navy. |
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Robots to give Web users close look at shipwrecks
Using technologies of ever-increasing sophistication, marine archaeologists are trying to find and study the hundreds of shipwrecks on Stellwagen Bank in more detail than ever before. Stellwagen, a Rhode Island-sized region, is one of 13 federal marine sanctuaries and extends from Cape Ann to the tip of Cape Cod. |
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Wind farm project praised by Brussels chief
A deepwater wind farm project off north-east Scotland could act as a "lighthouse project" for Europe's renewable energy industry, according to Andris Piebalgs, the European Union energy commissioner, who was visiting the Beatrice oil production platform, which sits 23 km offshore in the Moray Firth in about 45 metres of water - 35 metres deeper than existing offshore wind farms. |
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NOAA Launches new Marine Science Portal
The US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and Immersion Presents have launched oceanslive.org, a marine science portal that offers live video and special content to educate people of all ages about the ocean, including national marine sanctuaries. The portal's first live "telepresence" broadcast on July 17 focused on a research expedition to the wreck of the Civil War ironclad the USS Monitor, located off the North Carolina coast. |
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