A group of north east-based subsea engineers has become the only UK team to reach the final of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE and receive an equal share of a $1 million milestone prize for developing new approaches to map the ocean floor.

Subsea Commercial Services Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) has supplied multiple market leading underwater LEDs to Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (Newcastle, England) for a new build pipeline plough.

New insights into animal patterns around extinct submarine volcanoes could inform measures used to protect marine ecosystems from human activities, such as trawling and deep-sea mining. These insights have been published today in Nature Scientific Reports, and show that the structure of marine life communities depends on depth and small-scale features on the sea floor.

Subsea Commercial Services Ltd. (SCS) is proud to announce the securing of exclusive distribution rights for Scotland of Canadian based Xeos Technologies Inc.

Riptide Autonomous Solutions will be attending Oceanology International 2018 in London. During this global event, Riptide will be highlighting their ongoing developments in the unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) sector. Starting with a “micro” UUV Riptide has expanded its offerings to include multiple sizes and diverse payload configurations.

Oceaneering International, Inc. ("Oceaneering") (NYSE:OII) announced that it secured a three-year frame agreement with Van Oord Offshore Wind B.V. ("Van Oord"), an international dredging, marine engineering and offshore contractor. The new agreement relates to Remotely Operated Vehicle ("ROV") and trenching support services.

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The French pavilion organised by Business France, the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, will play host to 21 exhibitors at Oceanology International 2018 in London on stands J200, K200 and K300, in partnership with Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique and Pôle Mer Méditerranée.

Haugesund, Norway - 1st March 2018 - DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded a significant contract for performing riser replacement and construction work in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea.

Have you conducted innovative research for the marine field that you'd like to present to a broad audience? If so, now's your chance! OCEANS 2018 Charleston, to be held October 22 - 25 in Charleston, SC, is accepting technical abstracts that align with the conference theme, "Healthy Oceans, Resilient Coasts, Robust Commerce... Strong Nations," and/or the local or standard technical topics. Authors are invited to submit abstracts through April 18 in one of four categories:

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Industry body Subsea UK has launched a new initiative aimed at encouraging school pupils to consider a career at sea.

Fugro is leading the marine survey industry in support of NF-GEBCO Seabed 2030, a global initiative to produce a definitive, high-resolution bathymetric map of the entire world’s ocean floor by the year 2030. Much less than 20 percent of the world’s oceans are mapped using modern survey techniques.

Bibby HydroMap, one of the leading providers of hydrographic and geophysical surveys in the UK and Northern Europe, have partnered with iXblue to bring “DriX”, a new autonomous unmanned surface vessel (AUSV), to the European market.

Greensea Systems, Inc. of Richmond, Vermont was honored to receive the 2018 Corporate Excellence Award presented by the Remotely Operated Vehicle committee of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) at Underwater Intervention in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS, OTC:NUSMF Nasdaq Intl Designation) (the "Company" or "Nautilus") is pleased to provide an update on the status of construction of its Production Support Vessel and associated equipment, to be used by Nautilus and its partner, Eda Kopa (Solwara) Limited at the Solwara 1 Project site, in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea.

Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS, OTC:NUSMF Nasdaq Intl Designation) (the "Company" or "Nautilus") is pleased to announce that is has successfully completed the submerged trials for its Seafloor Production Tools In Papua New Guinea.

ECA Group and Petrus announce today the signing of a cooperation agreement for subsea robotics services to oil companies.