research vessels

The following images depicts a tragedy which is quietly unfolding around the world. On top of a factory building in Hong Kong, over ten thousand shark fins are

JUNEAU, Alaska — A research vessel under contract with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was discovered to have sunk early Friday morning while tied to

It may not be quite as dramatic as the Red October, however, to conduct scientific research on climate change, sustainable fishing, and energy

ARLINGTON, Va.-Construction for two new research ships funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) officially got underway with a keel-laying and dedication

The model research facility Janan – named after the island located in the western part of the Qatari peninsula – was donated to the University by

New, unseen, photos of the HMS Titanic released by National Geographic this month put the RMS Titanic in a new light. In collaboration with the  Woods Hole

An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into

Reaching from Chile up to the Bering Sea, then down again to New Zealand, the fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean are named The Pacific Ring of Fire and

By Brian Van Pay and Barbara Moore, US Department of State In the enduring spirit of friendship and cooperation, the United States and Canada conducted their

(University of Sydney)  In the remote waters of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, scientists have just discovered two sunken islands, almost the size of

Dutch Shipping Company Groen has ordered two Seismic Research & Support Vessels (SRSV’s) with Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam (Netherlands), part of

NOAA Ship Rainier has begun a month-long survey of the sea floor near Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island as part of a multi-year effort to update nautical

Via Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute You would have thought a disaster like this would have made the national news. But no one was hurt, and there is

Rolls-Royce has won a £20 million (US $32 million) order from Chinese conglomerate Sinopec to design and equip a specialist seismic research vessel.  When

In 2002, when my wife was working aboard the Robert G. Sproul at Scripps Institute Of Oceanography, we had the chance to tour FLIP and it is one of the

This week’s interesting ship is NOAA’s new high-tech fisheries survey vessel, Bell M. Shimada. Bell M. Shimada‘s primary mission will be to

More than three decades ago, marine scientists in the United States first identified the need for a research vessel capable of bringing scientists to

Senior NOAA officials today commissioned NOAA Ship Pisces, the nation’s most advanced fisheries research vessel, and dedicated a new fisheries laboratory

Wired Science brings us news of MBARI‘s Eye Of The Sky, the world’s first deepwater webcam: The first deep-sea webcam was successfully installed on

After being decommissioned this past August after 58 years of service, NOAA’s oldest and only wooden research ship that remained in its fleet, the John