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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32FEATURE 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
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23elatively inactive since 2014, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai (HT-HH) submarine volcano began erupting on December 20, 2021, reaching peak intensity on January 15, 2022. This triggered tsunamis throughout the Pa- R ci? c, destroyed lives and infrastructure, and generated the largest explosion recorded
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15sensor options for longer mission periods. About the Author For glider users working in ? sheries and conservation, Shea Quinn is the Product Line Manager the Sentinel can run several high-energy passive and active of the Slocum Glider at Teledyne Webb acoustic sensors, on-board processing, and imaging
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6Admiral, U.S. of Global Ocean Design, Navy (ret) is the CEO of creating components and Ocean STL Consulting and subsystems for unmanned host of The American Blue vehicles, following a career Economy Podcast. He serves at Scripps Institution of on several boards, is a fellow Oceanography/UCSD. He
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48SENSING REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES AND SURVEY Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd, Clittaford Road Southway, Harvest Technology Group, 7 Turner Avenue All American Marine, 1010 Hilton Ave., Bellingham, WA , Plymouth, Devon PL6 6DE United Kingdom , UK , Technology Park Bentley, Australia 6102 , tel:61 USA
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43“The industry is an ecosystem which includes owners, managers, mariners, shipyards, equipment makers, designers, research institutes and class societies: all of them are crucial,” – Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, ABB Marine & Ports All images courtesy ABB Marine and Ports provi
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word Seeing the Ship as a System Shipping must engage with the decarbonization realities that lie ahead by changing the way it crafts maritime legislation to re? ect its place in the interconnected, interdependent world economy, said Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB Marine &
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs “Wall Climbing Robot” Danish Pilot calls gets ClassNK Nod LEGO Model "A tribute build to a work life at sea" Image courtesy MOL, Sumitomo Heavy Industries lassNK granted its Innovation Endorse- Image courtesy Espen Andersen/DanPilot ment for
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31CRANES & OFFSHORE WIND Cadeler’s new NG-20000X class vessels will have 2,600t cranes, and its new NG-20000F class vessel will have a 3,200t crane. Similar new vessels for Havfram will have a crane of approximately 3,200t, as will Van Oord’s KNUD E. HAN- SEN-designed newbuilding currently being built in
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas sector.’ In Robert Langford, the American Bureau of Shipping has all of that and more bundled in one neat package. Langford recently visited with Maritime Reporter & Engineering News on
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12and use EV’s to the rapid pace of technology. or methanol to mine lithium for As near as I could establish, the batteries. That is, if we still need American Council for an Energy lithium for batteries by then. Ef? cient Economy is an earnest There are those who argue that and well-meaning organization
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Authors & Contributors MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M ISSN-0025-3448 USPS-016-750 No. 4 Vol. 86 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News (ISSN # 0025-3448) is published monthly Cooper Fischer Goldberg except for March, July, and October by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 48ADVERTISER INDEX Page Company Website Phone# 23 Ahead Sanitation www.aheadsanitationsystems.com (337) 330-4407 29 All American Marine www.AllAmericanMarine.com (360) 647-7602 35 Bristol Harbor Group www.BristolHarborGroup.com (401) 253-4318 7 Caldwell Lifting Solutions www.caldwellinc.com (800)
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 43action window si? cation society DNV to con? rm that 4. Azipod DI wiping systems for marine and other specialized applications. Optimum The American Bureau of Shipping the fuel cell design meets all the ap- window coverage can be achieved (ABS) has granted approval in principle plicable maritime
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 41future upgrade to hybrid pro- pulsion. It will support Ørsted and Eversource’s portfolio of offshore wind farms in the Northeast, including the Revolu- American Offshore Services tion Wind project in Rhode Island and the South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind projects in New York. The vessel will be An of? cial
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 29years ago amid calls for “30 by 30” (30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power gen- erated by 2030). At a February 2024 New York event hosted by Hellenic American and Norwegian American Chambers of Commerce (the HACC NACC conference), Charlie Papavizas, partner at law ? rm Winston Strawn appearing on an
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 25though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21navigational safety risk assessments. offshore turbine reach 853 feet above sea level.) Overall, however, navigation is just a brief reference within American Clean Power (ACP), the wind industry advo- cacy group, in comments to BOEM, takes on this issue. BOEM’s Notice: one paragraph in 12 pages. The Coast
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 17yards. This capacity has Without a strong, forward-think- gaps that allow for the shipyard in- not been outsourced like many other ing comprehensive American mari- dustry to plan for investments in their critical manufacturing sectors, like time strategy, advancing predictable infrastructure and workforce
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 16OpEd Shipbuilding U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding and Repair Industry Ensures American Strength at Sea By Matthew Paxton, President, Shipbuilders Council of America As Senator Roger Wicker force, the U.S. is falling behind. China, Korea and Japan of Mississippi once said, “Growth in commercial ship-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 10Insights Jennifer QQQQQQQQQAAA & Carpenter President & CEO, American Waterways Operators The towboat, tug and barge industry is in a pe- CARB’s harbor craft rules have been center riod of rapid evolution. How is AWO—now in its stage of late. AWO’s stance on the situation has 80th year of existence—adapt