Some commercial ships are now releasing a steady stream of bubbles underwater, and the reason is purely functional: reducing drag. This technique, called air lubrication, reduces resistance and helps ...
Some ships have a strange, rounded protrusion at the waterline called a bulbous bow, but others don't. The difference has ...
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has developed ‘ship classification AI system technology’ for the automatic classification of ship types through deep learning of underwater sounds. This ...
China has built a second vessel designed to support the handling of uncrewed underwater ...
The focus on underwater radiated noise (URN) from shipping has significantly increased over the past few years. As a result, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has decided to raise ...
A small British undersea drone fired the same type of heavy torpedo that the U.S. used to sink an Iranian warship in a major development for technology and naval tactics.
US and Canadian officials are investigating after a 689-foot ship collided with an underwater object and began taking on water in Lake Superior, the US Coast Guard says. The agency responded after the ...
In January, International Maritime Organization delegates plan to present to senior leadership a revised plan to mitigate underwater noise from ships. Specifically, the IMO’s Subcommittee on Ship ...