Tag: MBARI

Sanmar delivers ninth tugboat to global operator P&O Maritime Logistics

NewBuildsNovember 24, 2025

The Sırapınar Class are compact sister vessels to Sanmar’s best-selling Boğacay Class tugs.

Royal T Shipyards celebrates launch and christening of 10th LABRAX vessel

NewBuildsNovember 23, 2025

The vessel will undergo final outfitting at Royal T Shipyards in Kampen before heading to Harlingen for sea trials and delivery later this year.

MBARI upgrades deepwater AUV fleet with Exail Phins Compact C7 Inertial Navigation System

Autonomous ShippingSeptember 23, 2024

MBARI’s advanced underwater vehicles gather important data about our changing ocean

Innovative camera system provides a closer look at elusive ocean predators

Autonomous ShippingFebruary 16, 2024

MBARI’s innovative Piscivore system can observe active ocean predators and document their dynamic surroundings.

Robots documenting deep-sea biodiversity reveal a spectacular spaghetti worm

EcologyAugust 4, 2022

MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) have helped shed new light on the mysteries of the deep.

MacGregor to deliver oceanographic overboard handling systems for MBARI’s vessel

GeneralNovember 19, 2021

Founded in 1987 by David Packard, MBARI's mission is to advance marine science and technology to understand a changing ocean.

ABB to equip MBARI’s new flagship vessel with leading-edge solutions

NewBuildsJune 8, 2021

ABB future-proofs sustainable operation of Monterey Bay ocean research vessel

New multi-institutional grant will support a fleet of robotic floats

Subsea TechnologyNovember 2, 2020

This new network of floats will collect observations of ocean chemistry and biology between the surface and a depth of 2,000 meters.

Seafloor cable used to detect earthquakes, faults, and storm waves

Subsea TechnologyDecember 2, 2019

In a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, researchers describe an experiment that turned the seafloor cable on MBARI’s MARS ocean observatory...

Climate change: A triple threat for the ocean

EcologySeptember 29, 2019

MBARI scientists have seen changes in deep-sea communities over the last three decades. For example, Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) and sergestid shrimp populations appear...

Scientists learn to restore deep-sea coral communities

EcologySeptember 22, 2019

The deep, cold waters off the rocky coast of Point Sur, California, are home to an unexpected community of organisms that most people associate...

VIDEO: Mesobot dives into the Twilight Zone

Autonomous ShippingAugust 28, 2019

Mesobot is a brand new underwater vehicle designed to reveal what lives in the ocean’s twilight zone. Mesobot can follow animals as they move through...