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The Impact of Autonomous Tech on Peacetime Naval Missions

By Brian Gicheru Kinyua

January 29, 2023

This week, Australia revealed that it would spend up to $700 million acquiring high-tech sea mines. The last time Australia invested in naval mines was during the Vietnam War. According to the Defense...

Port of Mombasa Explores Using Solar Power for Cold-Ironing

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

The Port of Mombasa is investigating the feasibility of using renewable- energy for its planned shore power operations. The energy and marine consultant ABL group has already examined two possible bro...

Environmentalists Push for New Measures to Tackle Underwater Noise

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

Environmentalists are pushing for tough measures to address the impact of underwater noise from ships on marine life, a problem that is on the rise - particularly in the Arctic. With studies confir...

GAO: Delivery of First Columbia-Class SSBN Could Be Late

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

The U.S Navy's ambition to deliver the first Columbia class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine in record time could fall short, thanks in part to a lack of schedule risk analysis, according t...

Engines Driven by Sound Waves for Bottom-Cycle Maritime Application

By Harry Valentine

January 29, 2023

Thermoacoustic engines are based on tubes that convert heat into resonant sound waves, which in turn drive pistons inside cylinders. A discovery from several hundred years ago involved the bottom end...

Study: UK Offshore Methane Leakage is Five Times the Official Estimate

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

Climate-warming methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production in the UK are likely far higher than the British government's estimates, according to a new study from Princeton University's Cen...

U.S. Coast Guard Responds to Deadly Surge in Migration at Sea

By U.S. Coast Guard News

January 29, 2023

[By PO1 Nicole J. Groll] Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast's Operation Vigilant Sentry was first approved in 2004, and it deploys air and surface assets to address illegal maritime migration...

U.S. Navy Closes Four Drydocks at Puget Sound Shipyard Over Quake Risk

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

The U.S. Navy is temporarily idling four submarine repair drydocks in Washington due to earthquake risk, the service announced Sunday. The Navy recently commissioned a seismic assessment for Puget...

“No Greater Love": Billy Flores, Hero of the Cutter Blackthorn

By William Thiesen

January 29, 2023

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. - John 15:13, New Testament In the long history of the U.S. Coast Guard, there is no better example of the Biblical scripture...

Royal Caribbean's "ICON of the SEAS" is Coming in January 2024

By The Maritime Executive

January 29, 2023

RCL's Icon of the Seas is helping the world’s best family vacation reach new heights. Watch Icon of the Seas’ AquaDome neighborhood take shape with the installation of a new feat – a 363-ton dome – at...

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