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  • In the summer of 1991, a 121 ft. long Taiwanese long line fishing vessel, the Hui Feng #1, ran aground on an atoll in the middle of the Pacific. With a footprint of just 4.6 sq. mi., Palmyra Atoll forms the most northern vegetated island in the Northern Line Islands, lying some 1,000 miles south of Honolulu.  The atoll has a long storied past and is now a national monument and wildlife refuge, cooperatively managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and The Nature Conservancy.
    Palmyra Atoll encompasses some of the last remaining near-pristine reef environments, boasting an intact marine predator-dominated marine ecosystem where species’ richness and diversity abound, with more than 176 species of hard coral and 418 species of reef fish.  Through monitoring of the reefs, a slow and insidious destruction was identified by the Hui Feng #1 and the other wrecks deteriorating on Palmyra and Kingman Reef, a non-vegetated wildlife refuge reef located 35 miles to the northwest of Palmyra.
    At Palmyra the problem lay in a native marine organism called corallimorph that was effectively smothering the corals surrounding the wreck.  Researchers have made observations over several years that showed the spread of the organism progressively increasing due to the leaching of iron into the environment as the wreck corroded serving as a fertilizer of sorts.   At Kingman the problem was not corallimorph, but an invasive form of algae feeding off nutrients released from the dissolving wreckage of a burned fishing vessel. 
    In September of 2012, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s issued an RFP for the removal of the two wrecks from Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef. Global Diving & Salvage, Inc. reached out to Curtin Maritime to collaborate. Several factors were fundamental in the planning process: the safety of personnel and equipment, followed closely by mitigating the potential of further damage to the extremely delicate living coral and reef structure.
    Working together a plan was developed to remove the wreckage from the inner-tidal areas. Flat deck scows were designed and built with shallow draft to transit the debris across the coral reef areas to the main barge that provided logistical support and housing for the project.
    In total, the combined crew of 12 worked 79 days with 880 hours spent underwater to cut, rig and remove over 970,000 pounds of steel and debris, as well as 605 gallons of hydrocarbons. Susan White, the USFWS’s project leader for the removal effort, said the debris was “the equivalent of 67 large elephants or 31 city buses and was removed to protect some of the world’s most pristine coral reefs.”


    (As published in the May 2014 edition of Marine Technology Reporter - http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/Magazine)
     

  • solutions for specific, real-world problems. In the case of Hacking for the Environment: Oceans and Hacking4Oceans, mentors and sponsors included the Nature Conservancy, the Oceanic Society, and NOAA Fisheries; policy experts from Scripps Institution of Oceanography as well as representatives from the innovation

  • from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1992 and earned an MBA in 1998. Beyond this, she currently serves as a trustee on the boards of the Nature Conservancy in Alaska and was recently appointed to the Arctic Economic Council. As general manager of Fairweather, LLC, Lori is responsible for directing

  • , of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, of the Illinois Soybean Association, of the environmental and engineering consulting firm CH2M Hill, of the Nature Conservancy, and of several environmental advocacy organizations presented testimony. Senator Koehler chaired the hearing. In his opening remarks, Senator

  • south of Honolulu, Palmyra  Atoll is a national monument and wildlife refuge, cooperatively managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and The Nature Conservancy who work together to protect the delicate environments unique to Palmyra. The atoll encompasses some of the last remaining near- pristine reef

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    underwater forests.” These for- ests are a hotspot of biodiversity and species richness. Underwater eruptions are also known to change the chemical nature of the ocean in the vicinity, creating localized disruptions to the oceanic food chain. DETECTING “Most volcanic activity in the world occurs on

  • MT Mar-24#8 both Ukrainian and Rus- true nature and extent of mining remains)
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    the war in Ukraine, mine warfare mines have been the weapon of choice for both sides, the has played a signi? cant role in both Ukrainian and Rus- true nature and extent of mining remains largely unknown. sian naval operations, underscoring how a cheap and We do know that numerous drifting contact mines

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    Bea- con Wind,” said Langford. “New Jersey awarded a combined 3.7MW of offshore wind capacity to Invenergy, energyRE’s Is There Good News? By its very nature, bad news sells, and there is no excep- Leading Light Wind Project and Attentive Energy LLC’s At- tion when it comes to offshore wind. At the end of

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    underwater radiated noise regulations is resilient mounts to use of a high-frequency mount such as spelled out in a book being published by Springer Nature distributed isolation material. There are numerous existing entitled Noise and Vibration Control on Ships; Understand- and developing approaches

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    14.5 GW. . . The goal stays alive, but we have to ? nd a way forward from here.” Wind-related newbuild activity has been limited by the short-term nature of contracting. On the same panel, Pa- pavizas said, “Most of the vessels have to be built on spec”, and added that “they are not getting term contracts

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    • Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing

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    the maritime sector and containerships, as Seb Brindley, Senior Naval Architect, Sea- ammonia certainly has its drawbacks, led by the caustic nature span Ship Management, explains. “We need to be ready for of the fuel itself as well as the fact that the engine fueled by the future and have the

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    inspired by stories of early explorers videos and written logs. Additionally, the team will deliver taking time off from their adventures to learn from nature, Ice Warrior was born. Ocean Warrior follows a similar structure, and attend lectures about science on board and engage virtu- ally with school groups

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    for leading als with the knowledge tools to better live, work and the outdoors was sparked at a young age by participating and play harmoniously with nature. Many com- in a winter course of Outward Bound, a UK-founded outdoor munities, particularly from the Industrial Revo- education organization, that

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    these actors have the potential to greatly enhance this capabil- bay, or external stores. These weapons could take many forms ity, and to alter the nature of littoral maritime operations. - lightweight or heavyweight torpedoes, advanced sea mines, Through indigenous engineering, access to commercial

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    , he points out that the tech is not meant for use on any and every site, as distance to dredge disposal area, consistency of dredge material and the nature of the tidal ? ow and water col- umn all come into play. “If we would have had a disposal site one mile offshore, I don’t think we would’ve invented

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    in the estuarian system, through the natural re- er campaigns, we have seven trailer campaigns,” said Storey. suspension of sediment – thus, “Dredging with Nature”. Because it places the sediment back into the water column at Trial & Error the appropriate depth, there has been no evidence of turbidity In envisioning

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    forecasts are, however, particularly vulnerable to the “butter? y effect.” Previous work by ClassNK indi- cates that as atmospheric circulation has the nature of chaos, if there is an error in an initial value, the error in the pre- dicted value will increase exponentially over time. Wave forecasts, therefore

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    www.ledsupply.com. silicone oil has the cast dome on an LED is often silicone, and may be affected by Further Reading immersion in a ? uid of a similar nature. DeepSea Power & Light (San Diego, CA) has published numerous articles on un- dersea lighting and imaging. Tip: A reasonably good 30-watt, 2600 Go

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    pas- member had a “wicked disposition, a propensity to evil conduct, sageway. Once the surveillance system is installed, the vessel a savage and vicious nature” that would make the ship “perilous” owner or operator must display clear and conspicuous signs on (Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. S.S. Co., 348 U.S. 336

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    ? delity, is that they are ex- toward high-? delity simulations which capture ceptionally costly. High-quality simulations require massive the complex nature of the real world with a high degree of ac- computational resources, and even if such resources are avail- curacy. And at present, the pursuit of high-

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    these Ground Rules are absorbed and applied FEMA response which may have commercial contractors, but in rapidly developing scenarios, they become second nature no commercial responsibility for the response. and massively increase response effectiveness, both at an in- OPA90 creates an interesting situation

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    to wasting that material in the ocean. Bene? - your help in ensuring that our inland system remains a cial reuse advances climate resiliency and is a nature-based reliable mode for moving the nation’s critical freight.” solution as called for by the Administration.” Brogan said Lisa Parker, with the MVD

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    , is a people prob- lem. “The most pressing issues we have is our continued The weather shortage of quali? ed personnel we need to run our boats Mother Nature is often unkind to the barging industry. and to run the business. It’s probably the most pressing Water levels have received a lot of media coverage

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    bunkered approxi- or to the trial of LPG propulsion technology. This was largely mately 46,000 metric tons of LPG, saving about US$7.4 mil- due to the nature of LPG – being heavier than air, it ? ows lion in fuel costs. BW LPG also reduced carbon emissions by downward and remains near the bottom and in

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    are many problems in the maritime indus- important in this discussion. The most important concept to try which are not data rich. This is often due to the nature of remember is that ML models are trained to map inputs to out- the problem, for example, improbable events are dif? cult to puts—even if the relationshi

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    ? rst thing you see is nothing: it’s just brown or green; It’s rare- gram of record and some other programs that we’re working ly blue, and you rarely see nature in its natural state. Multibeam sonars provide the ability to see something at a with the [U.S.] Navy, plus we’ve seen an uptick with foreign distance

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    .com how subsea exploration is conducted, particularly the exploration/tourism branch. Production & Graphic Design Deep under the water where nature, science and engineering meet, there are no guaran- Nicole Ventimiglia tees. As I’ve written hundreds of times in my 30+ year career, it is “one

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    industry in terms of true collaboration, true When Noonan joined Ardmore, he envisioned being in the risk and reward sharing. But here he sees the very nature of middle of the next great fuel wave in maritime. the industry working against itself. But now – with the broad availability of future fuels at