The Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset, His Majesty’s personal representative in the county, visited Atlantas Marine in Yeovil on 13 September to present them with a King’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade. The specialist underwater inspection equipment and services company was the only Somerset company to receive a King’s Award this year.

Exail, a world leader in robotics, navigation and subsea imagery solutions is proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This partnership aims to enhance global efforts in ocean bathymetry, contributing to the complete mapping of the world's ocean floor by 2030.

Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS) has unveiled and commissioned its latest Accession class Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) featuring Robosys Automation’s groundbreaking VOYAGER AI Survey advanced maritime autonomy suite.

Beam, a leading provider of AI and Autonomy enabled offshore wind services, has added two 18m ASVs (autonomous surface vessels), called Xplorers, and a Quantum EV workclass ROV to its specialist fleet at a total cost of over £15m. This is the latest commitment by the tech scale up, formerly Rovco and Vaarst (now merged), to drive progress in the clean energy transition, helping the offshore wind sector become a more reliable, efficient and cost-effective alternative to the oil and gas industry.

VideoRay, a global leader in underwater robotics, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by hosting a commemorative photo contest. VideoRay is asking its customers and users to share photos and/videos of their VideoRay missions to chronical two and half decades of collective underwater innovation and discoveries. The photo contest features three categories, each offering the winner the opportunity to select from a cash prize or their choice of selected high-tech marine gear.

Subsea technology company, SMD, today announced the first sale of its compact workclass electric ROV, the Atom EV, to Greece’s Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), the primary Greek public body undertaking marine research in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Greensea IQ, a leading provider of autonomous underwater robotics solutions, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Baker Marine Solutions (BMS). Through this partnership, BMS will serve as a subcontractor and sales representative for EverClean, Greensea IQ’s innovative hull cleaning service. BMS will provide EverClean services throughout Louisiana, including at the Port of New Orleans, and expand the EverClean brand into new regional markets.

High-technology offshore wind companies, Rovco and Vaarst, have today announced their merger under a new brand: Beam.global. In uniting their industry leading capabilities across research, development, and deployment, Beam provides an unrivalled offering in cutting-edge automation technologies. Through its mission to automate offshore wind, these innovations deliver efficiencies and reduced costs for survey and subsea work across all lifecycle stages.

Collaborative partners will explore the use of converted energy from ocean waves as a lower-cost, lower-carbon power source for subsea energy applications. 

VideoRay, a global leader in underwater robotic systems, and Survey Equipment Services (SES), a leading provider of underwater survey solutions, are excited to announce the expansion of their dealer relationship. This enhanced partnership allows SES to sell VideoRay’s cutting-edge Mission Specialist products across an expanded area in the United States. SES is also on track to begin providing local customer service and support upon completion of their training.

CSignum, a leader in underwater and underground wireless data networking, is excited to announce the launch of its latest innovation, the EM-2S. This new solution is purpose-designed to be mounted on marine vessels below the waterline providing essential communications for advanced monitoring functions. Traditional wireless networks do not work underwater; CSignum’s patented electromagnetic field signaling (EMFS) crosses the divide enabling underwater sensor data to be communicated to networks above the surface. For the first time, the shipping industry, navies and coastguards are able to conduct comprehensive monitoring below the water, with wireless communications to the deck and networks above.

The XolarSurf prototype floater, created in collaboration with the Norwegian manufacturer Kystteknikk and other subcontractors, was lifted and launched at sea at Kystteknikk's facilities in Dyrvik, on the island of Frøya, at the mouth of the Trondheim fjord in Norway. Design to withstand waves up to 8m, this represents the first full-scale test and a key milestone in the readiness of the product. The prototype is expected to remain at sea for about one year, during which its performance and production capacity will be monitored.

HII’s Mission Technologies division has successfully built and delivered two REMUS 620 uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for enhanced high-resolution ocean floor mapping.

HonuWorx, based in Aberdeen, plans to dramatically slash costs and emissions for offshore repair and inspection work through its fleet of autonomous, all-electric submarines. TRICAPITAL Angels and Scottish Enterprise delivered the investment round, along with UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), which has invested in HonuWorx for a second time.

The Marine Environmental and Hazard Response unit of Haida Gwaii has acquired the first-ever Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) within the Canadian Coast Guard. This groundbreaking achievement culminates two years of dedicated effort, innovation, and collaboration between Shift Coastal Technologies, a leader in Marine autonomous systems, and the Canadian Coast Guard’s Marty Rogers, Chief of Autonomous Systems.

Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. Harnessing their expertise in designing robots for space exploration, IceNode’s engineers are developing vehicles about 8 feet (2.4 meters) long and 10 inches (25 centimeters) in diameter, with three-legged “landing gear” that springs out from one end to attach the robot to the underside of the ice.

RenewableUK and Scottish Renewables are pleased to announce Floating Offshore Wind will be back again on 9 - 10 October 2024 at the P&J Live in Aberdeen.

Kongsberg Discovery is excited to announce another successful milestone reached in the development of HUGIN Endurance following a record setting multi-week fully autonomous mission. After receiving a final navigation update from a pre-deployed transponder 10 hours into the dive, the 8-ton, 40 ft, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operated completely independent of all human interaction and with no external navigation aiding for the duration of the sortie. This mission was conducted at depths ranging from 50m to 3400m and met the advertised 1,200 nautical mile range. Most impressive of all, was that HUGIN Endurance returned with a position error of approximately 0.02% of total distance traveled!