Neptun Subsea AS, a 100% owned subsidiary of the IKM Group, will change its name to IKM Subsea AS in January 2010.

ODIM Brooke Ocean has received an order for the delivery of an ODIM LOPC to the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries via the MacArtney Underwater Technology Group.

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK has successfully completed a European research project of landmark significance. For the EU research project GREX, ATLAS contributed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) of the type "SeaBee" to the research fleet and also managed the entire project.

Scientists from Cawthron Institute in Nelson are using the $800,000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), nicknamed DORA (Delaware Oceanographic Research AUV), to study the Motueka River plume as it comes into Tasman Bay. The plume, which can extend over 20 kilometres into the Bay, is known to influence water quality and growing conditions for shellfish.

BP today announced a transaction that will deliver a material exploration position in the deepwater offshore Brazil and significantly enhance its position in core strategic areas.

In a broad-ranging deal, BP will pay Devon Energy $7.0 billion in cash for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the US deepwater Gulf of Mexico. These include interests in ten exploration blocks in Brazil, including seven in the prolific Campos basin; a major portfolio of deepwater exploration acreage and prospects in the US Gulf of Mexico; and an interest in the BP-operated Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) development in the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan.

Oceanteam ASA and VOF BouwCombinatie Egmond (BCE) have agreed a full and final amicable settlement on all outstanding claims from both parties related to the 2006 cable installation project for the Near Shore Wind Park.

In November 2007 the residents of a Mississippi mobile home park were unaware that a buried pipeline that passed close to their homes had ruptured and began to leak its contents of liquid propane, forming a deadly gas cloud.

Before all the residents could be evacuated the gas exploded killing 63 year old Maddie Mitchell, and her 20 year old granddaughter, Naquandra.

London UK, 10 February 2010: Global Marine Systems has announced the completion of the Trinidad cable landing, the next milestone in the installation of the Suriname Guyana Submarine Cable System (SGSCS). The Trinidad link will provide direct access to high volumes of bandwidth from providers in North American and elsewhere, dramatically improving access to the internet and related communications services. The landing occurred on 9 February 2010 at Macqueripe Bay Trinidad.

Weighing a massive 60 tons and with the dimensions of a small house, the UT-1 Ultra Trencher is now the biggest underwater robot ever made to be used for installing subsea cables for telecommunications and pipelines used in the oil industry. UT-1 Ultra Trencher is 7.8 meters long, 7.8 meters wide and 5.6 meters tall, cost 10 million UK pounds to build and may navigate through the water at speeds of 2 to 3 knots.

Research and Markets: The World AUV Market Report - includes future forecasts through to 2019

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the The World AUV Market Report 2010-2019 report to their offering. Although some 629 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been produced to date, they are still regarded as a relatively new technology. Considerable investments by research institutes, manufacturers and the military, followed by a number of early commercial deployments, has meant that AUVs are starting to replace and outperform more traditional technology.

Submarine cable installation to start for real-time earthquake and tsunami monitoring system on ocean-floor

A project to develop an underwater observation network system that enables dense and precise monitoring of seismic and subseafloor movements has been undertaken by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), in the Kumano Basin, Kii Peninsula. The area is considered to be the active seismogenic zone of the Tonankai earthquake, a megathrust earthquake anticipated to occur along the south eastern coast of Japan within the next 30 years at a 60 to 70 percent probability.

SEA has recently been awarded contracts to supply SWATHplus wide swath bathymetric sidescan system for surface vessels and sub-sea vehicles.

Hydroid, Inc. A Kongsberg Company announced today that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) ordered two REMUS 100 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems. The two Hydroid REMUS 100 Vehicles will be operated by FAU's Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering. They are part of FAU's National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program (NSF MRI) award and are intended to complement FAU's capabilities and enable research in cooperative behavior between AUVs.

Neptune Marine Services Ltd today announced that, as reported to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting in November 2009, earnings for the first half of FY2010 will be well below that of the previous corresponding period.