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Editorial t seems that 2021 begins as 2020 has ended, with vary- ing states of lockdown globally presenting a number (Photo © Fadel Adib (MIT) of challenges to conducting business ef? ciently and www.marinetechnologynews.com effectively. But while there are challenges aplenty, if

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COVID-19 and its various impact on business and life. Trust when I say I cannot wait for the day that “COVID-19” is erased from my daily vernacular, but nonetheless I ? nd it a fascinating study of human and

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One feature focus this month is the burgeoning renewable offshore energy market, and here with checked in with Jason Hayman, CEO of Sustainable Marine Energy for an

Associate Publisher & Editor update on his organization’s efforts to more forward on its tidal energy system, an innova-

Gregory R. Trauthwein tive trimaran system in tandem with Schottel. It’s next-generation system was, at the time [email protected] of our interview in February, literally on the slipway at A.F. Theriault and ready for its ? rst

Contributing Writers commercial project at FORCE. While Hayman’s team is globally dispersed and the chal-

Justin Manley, U.S. lenges have been numerous with COVID-19, the Sustainable Marine Energy team is on

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Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen schedule for its ? rst commercial project, as you’ll read starting on page 38.

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Generating power under water is one, but hardly the only challenge when working in the world’s oceans and waterways. As we watched with amazement when NASA’s Perse-

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Nicole Ventimiglia the world’s oceans remain unexplored and only 7% are designated marine protected areas [email protected] (MPAs). In the efforts to explore and understand our oceans, the use of sound has always been particularly tricky, but Celia Konowe found a number of researchers that are working

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Mark O’Malley feature, starts on page 20.

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