Category: News and Notes

The Arctic expedition, Greenland Spreading Zone: Exploring Extreme Habitats in Arctic Seamounts and Hydrothermal Vents (GREAT), spent 18 days aboard the research vessel Celtic Explorer, with ROV Etain searching for hydrothermal vents.

Full article at: Autonocion.com 15sep26

Over the past 9 years, Canadian researchers, NOAA, archaeologists, wreck hunters and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society have documented at least 14 sites of shipwrecks within the Great Lakes. The most recent identification of freighter James Carruthers in Lake Huron uncovered a load of wheat 112 years after the vessel disappeared in the Great Storm of 1913.

List available at: World Atlas

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers in Alaska sent an ROV under Arctic and transmitted data back through the ice using a magneto-inductive transmitter developed by Norwegian defense start-up Havguard.

Researchers drilled through the ice to deploy the ROV equipped with DVL for position tracking under the ice. An aerial drone was also deployed to locate the ROV and measure the performance of the communications. All while temperatures fell to -32C (-25F) and having to stop sensor deployments due to blizzard-like conditions.

Full article at: Mixed-News.com 07sep26

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is developing a stream-lined ROV to remove fishing gear, like fishing nets, from historic shipwrecks.

Originally intended to recover larger research robots stuck underwater, the ResQ ROV is being designed as a more cost-effective alternative to divers and to operate in more confined environments than a larger ROV can navigate safely.

Full article at: Scubaverse.com 21aug26

A collaboration between Woodside and Recfishwest with the support of the WA Government, City of Karratha, Traditional Owners, and local fishing clubs, a modular 16,000 m2 artifical reef has successfully installed an artificial reef off the coast of Dampier, Western Australia (WA). THe goal is to create a new habitat to support local fish species and enhance recreational fishing opportunities for the local community.

Full article at: Eco Magazine 12feb26