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Government representatives, maritime authorities, international organizations, and industry leaders from across the world gathered in Monaco during April 2026 for the Assembly of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the principal global forum for decisions on hydrography, seabed mapping, and maritime...Read More

The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force’s 51st meeting is currently underway in San Juan, Puerto Rico from April 28 to May 5, 2026. Guided by the theme of “Restoring Reefs, Sustaining Resources: Protecting U.S. Ocean Wealth,” the Task Force will...Read More

Above (inset image):  Side scan sonar image of the wreck of SS Monrovia collected using Michigan Technological University’s autonomous underwater vehicle Iver 3 during the Machine Learning for Automated Detection of Shipwreck Sites from Large Area Robotic Surveys expedition. Monrovia sunk just outside of Lake...Read More

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service has announced an advance notice of proposed rulemaking requesting information that could help modernize regulations designed to reduce the risk of lethal vessel strikes with endangered North Atlantic right whales. Through this action, the agency...Read More

Pictured Above:  In 2023, WHOI scientists aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown in the tropical Atlantic took advantage of the ship’s long-planned path through the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt to take some of the first samples from a massive,...Read More

During early March 2026, the National Oceanic and Aeronautics Administration (NOAA) and Northrop Gruman, a major American global aerospace and defense technology company, released the first-ever high definition sonar images of the USS Monitor shipwreck site during a media briefing...Read More

As it’s done during previous years, in March 2026 the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)  released its annual list of the top-ten marine species (which are not necessarily actual worms) described by researchers during the past year to coincide...Read More

Responding to the surge in global subsea cable investment driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence, ABS published its Technical Standard for Subsea Power Cables during early March 2026. To read the document online, click HERE. To download the PDF,...Read More

Born on March 26, 1773 in Salem, Massachu­setts, Nathaniel Bowditch is known today as the “Father of Modern Maritime Navigation” for writing “The American Practical Navigator,” an encyclopedia of navigation now known as simply “Bowditch,” that still–even after hundreds of years–serves...Read More