FEATURE SEABED MINING by a sea? oor plume from its pilot collection system test. pact, nodule collection system that utilizes mechanical and The Metals Company recently signed a binding MoU with hydraulic technology. Paci? c Metals Corporation of Japan for a feasibility study on The company’s SMD
those available from and general industry practice.” the commercial lending market. “The main advantages Papavizas said the move addresses the issue of rigid
CRUISE INTERIOR DESIGN nability via Interior Spaces Extending Helping cruise product clients to lifespan is cut food and key. energy waste. Tapani Johanna Wendelin, Tenovuo, VP, VP, Business New Sales Process Catering Development Division age in the galley area. According to ALMACO, owners
WASTEWATER TREATMENT Fish don’t eat steak pie and chips. – Iain Milnes, President, Power Knot Cunard’s Queen Anne will have 26 Power Knot systems installed. Image courtesy Power Knot Image courtesy Power Knot Kirsch, Area Manager for Advanced Wastewater Treatment vent its discharge. President
Down for Commercial Ops The Inception of OceanWings automatically switching to ? ag mode to While technology or ideas coming The original Americas Cup rigid two- ensure minimal impact on the vessel and from the yachting world to ships would element mainsail was pushed by the enable safe operations and
by BMW courts prior to the race. The lifting of home. It was, however, a unique new Oracle Racing and the Société restrictions on boat design gave BMW rigid wingsail design based on an air- T Nautique de Genève (SNG), Oracle Racing the possibility to create craft wing that propelled Ellison’s high- the
challenge.” aim to harness the power of the wind as a means to help it In looking back on the project’s origin, he said the ? rst meet and beat its own rigid emission reduction mandates. hurdle to cross was taking into account the range of the While next-generation maritime technology is most often ship’s
Sheriff’s Of? ce Special Response Team (SRT). The St. James Parish Sherriff’s Of? ce is adding the Ocean Craft Marine 8M Law Enforcement (LE) Interceptor rigid hull in? atable boat (RHIB) to its assortment of patrol craft Ocean Craft Marine in order to augment their riverine capabilities with the lat- est
to launch in 2024, Space Perspective ized capsule will splash down gently into the ocean. Fast is currently selling tickets for $125,000, with more than rigid-hulled in? atable boats (RHIB) from Fluid Watercraft 1,100 sold to date. 40 | MN June 2023 MN June23 Layout 32-45.indd 40 5/19/2023 3:14:13 P
, Latin America and the Caribbean. Metal Shark was is building the NCPVs for Costa Rica, the Domini- can Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Rigid hull In? atable Boats (RIBs) and patrol boats are also being provid- ed to partner nations across the mid- dle east, South America and Europe. “The
of ship innovation projects – Wind Challenger and Wind Hunter – that aim to harness the power of the wind as a means to help it meet and beat its own rigid emission reduction mandates. WIND CHALLENGER While next-generation maritime technology is most often seen in the R&D lab, Wind Challenger is sailing
GREEN MARINE The belief that nuclear power is somehow unsafe and dangerous is a myth not born out by facts of science.” Dr Rory Megginson, Head of Analytics, Core Power Bluntly, there is no short-term option to hydrocarbons as a NEW STRATEGIES means of fueling the planet. So the challenge becomes
long lead times and delays hindering newbuild proj- order two other notable vessels: an EPA Tier 4 retractable ects of all shapes and sizes. A builder of rigid hull in? atable towboat from Bayou La Batre, Ala. shipbuilder Steiner Con- boats (RHIB) recently told Marine News it had to swap struction Company
death sea life. viously unrecognized source of GHGs. There are iconic photographs of A 2018 study by a research team led whales or turtles with nets, rope, plas- by Sarah-Jeanne Royer at the Uni- tic packing strips, and straws becoming versity of Hawaii demonstrated that entangled, reduced mobility
The Final Word Ocean Plastics Taking ocean plastic seriously: It’s Time Copyright dottedyeti/AdobeStock he oceans are choking on plastics ( 5 to 50 cm) and microplastics the ocean is only now being taken se- plastic waste, increasingly (less than the width of a human hair). riously. Each year the
LANDER LAB #7 SUBSEA HOUSINGS With purge systems such as the Global Ocean Design Deck the plastic valve from exposure to any ocean pressure. Purge Box (DPB-107), a vacuum leak test may be performed after the ? rst draw down to ½ atmosphere. The vacuum gauge One example of an open port purge port is
Eye on the Navy U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bradley Rickard Machinery Repairman 1st Class Cory Hover, leading petty of? cer for the where the Phillips Hybrid system is a wire-fed laser system Wasp-class amphibious assault ship using a directed energy deposition (DED)
units that make relatively small plastic parts. The feedback technology in shipboard research use cases, but created a self- we were getting from the ? eet is that they need larger metal contained, mobile 3D metal printshop by out? tting a common parts,” said Jim Pluta, additive manufacturing (AM)
Eye on the Navy NAVY BUILDS UP ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ON SHIPS By Edward Lundquist The U.S. Navy has long valued the potential of additive While there are many things one can do with AM, such as manufacturing (AM) and 3D Printing. rapid prototyping, the holy grail has been the ability to fabri- AM
LANDER LAB #5 BATTERIES o (Charge battery, then discharge with CBA V Pro and tested them to 18,000-psi. They held up ? ne. to this value. Explained below.) Placing a pressure compensated LiPo battery outside the hull ? Shipping voltage (30% of full charge): 3.71V/cell means you only subtract the
Figure 1 A look inside a Southwest Electronic Energy SeaSafe II pressure compensated Lithium Polymer battery shows placement of the prismatic LiPo cells, the individual Battery Management Systems PCBs, and the Power Booster boards for intelligent control of the output. partly be blamed on those
GLIDERS Digital Thin Line Array, a miniaturised (20mm), low power drophones. While there were issues with plastic in the ocean towed passive acoustic array, King told MATS. It’s already jamming the thruster and rudder, the trial proved the ability to been trialled with traditional autonomous underwater
MTR 100 PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY TRITECH INTERNATIONAL XSENS PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY A team of scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory have ‘trained’ an Ar- ti? cial Intelligence (AI) model to recog- nize and classify the different types of marine plastic captured in images shot by a video
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