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Progress continues to be made on the World’s Largest Artificial Reef, the SS United States.  Last month (August 2025), crews in Mobile, Alabama, removed the massive 65-foot forward smoke stack from the vessel.  The stack will be preserved in a...Read More

Above:  A welder from Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC, welds the initials of the Surveyor’s sponsor, Tracey L. Brennan, onto a steel plate that will be incorporated into the ship, in keeping with maritime tradition, at a keel-laying event for the...Read More

Pictured Above:  Fugro’s Blue Essence uncrewed surface vehicle retrieves the Fugro Blue Volta electric remotely operated vehicle in the North Sea on March 3, 2022. NOAA and Fugro are partnering to develop and use uncrewed systems for ocean exploration to...Read More

Note: Because of severe weather, the ROV dives scheduled for Sept. 16–17 have been postponed.  The team plans to resume dives and livestreams on Thursday, Sept. 18. The ship-to-shore hosted event (link below) on Wednesday will proceed as scheduled. For...Read More

NASA is inviting the public to join the agency’s Artemis II test flight as four astronauts venture around the Moon and back to test systems and hardware needed for deep space exploration. As part of the agency’s “Send Your Name with...Read More

Experimental services improve flood communications for emergency managers and the public The longstanding demand for event-driven flood inundation mapping (FIM) has increased dramatically in recent years as a high value source of actionable information for emergency and water resource managers...Read More

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has introduced a long-term schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of America and Alaska’s Cook Inlet.   The inclusion of at least 30 lease...Read More

NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory, the first NOAA satellite fully dedicated to continuous, operational space weather observations is now in Florida preparing for its Fall 2025 launch (no earlier than September 23, 2025). SWFO-L1 arrived...Read More

The Coast Guard has recently updated its playbook for handling emergencies.  The 2025 Incident Management Handbook (IMH) is the first update in over a decade, and reflects the latest best practices in national emergency response. It’s easier to use and...Read More