The Enova-supported programme will now evaluate how these advantages can be translated into a commercially deployable project using Norwegian industrial capabilities.
The new facility will combine an instructor station with the NAUTIS naval module, expanding training capacity and giving officers greater flexibility to practise navigation
One research mission, dubbed Expedition 386, wants to use sediment records in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan to track and record thousands of years of past seismic activity.
Evidence from underwater landslides during New Zealand's 2016 Kaikōura earthquake could help scientists better understand the world's largest, tsunami-generating quakes.
