China has taken a significant step in expanding its ocean research capabilities with the launch of a new deep-sea, all-weather floating research facility in Shanghai. The project, positioned as a key ...

Historic fleet addition: The CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk is the largest science vessel ever built for the Canadian Coast Guard, replacing the CCGS Hudson. Cutting-edge capabilities: Equipped for Arctic and ...

Russia wields a formidable capability to target NATO’s undersea infrastructure in critical regions such as the Baltic, Barents, and North Seas, as well as across the world’s oceans: its “research” ...

USNS Bowditch pier side during a visit to India. At sea, research vessels are tools of maritime power. America’s ocean research fleet is in flux, with Trump Administration cuts hitting an aged fleet ...

The United States possesses a critical national asset in its Academic Research Fleet (ARF), a network of advanced oceanographic research vessels. This asset enables the nation’s leadership in deep-sea ...

Earlier, the institute and the design bureau inked an agreement on design, building and upgrade of research vessels MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/. The Institute of Oceanology (the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

The U.S. oceanographic research community depends on a complex network of ships and institutions for scientific discovery at sea. The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) is the ...

Sri Lanka is again caught in a controversy surrounding a foreign research vessel. Its media has reported that the U.N.-flagged research vessel Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, operated by the Food and Agriculture ...

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to select a shipyard to perform the final design and assembly of the university’s new Coastal Class Research ...

For a vessel that’s spent decades cleaning up trash in the ocean, this is perhaps the cruelest of fates. The Kaisei, a large double-masted sailing ship whose mission has long been to raise awareness ...

BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - China's embassy in Australia rejected reports linking the transit of a Chinese research vessel south of Australia with the country's upcoming federal elections, saying the ...