The Maritime Link project has a new website that will post job openings and be used to help fill them. The portal was launched Friday by St. John’s-based Emera Newfoundland & Labrador. The site includes information about job openings and allows people to apply for positions. Contractors and unions involved with the subsea cable project will use the portal to help find qualified workers. "The new site provides greater accessibility for those applying for work on the project," Rick Janega, president and CEO of the Emera arm overseeing link construction, said in a news release. The cable project is expected to create an average of 300 jobs per year in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland between 2014 and 2017, with peak employment of about 600 workers in 2016.

MMA Offshore Limited (MMA), Australia-based marine services provider to the Asia Pacific oil and gas industry, disclosed Wednesday that the Company has been awarded a contract by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. (Chevron) to provide supply base facilities and services for Chevron’s operations in Australia’s North West. MMA will provide a broad range of shore base services out of its Dampier Supply Base. The comprehensive scope includes operations planning and management for vessel mooring, load and discharge, freight/material management and dedicated laydown and staging areas. Additionally, the scope requires the provision of technical capabilities including heavy lifting operations, the provision of quarantine inspection and remediation services and management of a number of third party services.

Seatronics Ltd, an Acteon company and part of its survey, monitoring and data business, has promoted Derek Donaldson from vice president Asia Pacific to vice president global operations. Donaldson enters into a new position within the Seatronics Group management structure, reporting directly to the Seatronics Group managing director, Phil Middleton. Donaldson and Middleton will together support regional vice presidents in managing and developing the global Seatronics business. Donaldson will be based in Singapore and will continue to manage the regional office, whilst maintaining a global presence.

Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Antrim Energy to decommission four subsea wells in the central North Sea. The offshore scope of the campaign, which also includes six wells from Centrica Energy, will include complete offshore and onshore project management, vessel charter, equipment and personnel.

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China International Diving and Salvage Offshore Summit 2015

6-8 November 2015 – Xiamen, China

For some 30 years SEALAB I has sat with little attention, now on the heels of its 50th anniversary, a group of volunteers has undertaken the task of restoring this historical vessel and re-commissioning it in the configuration as it served as America's first underwater house. Be part of the effort to help fund this project. Click the link below for more information and to donate to the cause.

Commercial divers may be aware of the dangers of decompression illness, but some may be more likely to feel its effects, depending upon their physiology. One of the contributing factors to susceptibility is whether a diver has a Patent Foramen Ovale, or PFO, a heart condition that can have serious repercussions.

Offshore wind energy is a growing business, providing enormous potential to meet the world's energy needs. But with their structures based at sea, building them has always posed a number of challenges. Now those challenges can be significantly reduced with a new standard for ports and marine operations for offshore wind energy structures.

Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 6, conducted joint training at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (JEBLCFS), June 16, in preparation for the salvage of Civil War Ironclad CSS Georgia. Hissing from pressure valves being released and muffled communication from underwater divers to the console operator fill the air. A supervisor holding stop watches shouts commands to tenders who pull or heave in large air hoses.

Hundreds of students from all over the world have descended upon Memorial University's Marine Institute in St. John's, N.L., for an underwater robot battle. The major international competition, called the MATE ROV Challenge, involves students designing and building their own remotely operated underwater vehicle. Those robots are then put through the paces at the university's test tank. About 700 high school and university students from around the world travelled to St. John's for the competition.

Navy Diving is celebrating the Year of the Military Diver in 2015, with 100 years since the Mark V diving helmet was first developed, later becoming the cornerstone piece of equipment for the community for more than 65 years. Though current divers no longer wear the iconic helmet, many other facets of diving have remained the same. With the recent acquisition of the Diver 6 telemetry system, Navy diving is poised to plunge into its next century, beginning with a practice dive at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, June 17.

An ancient shipwreck doesn't give up all its secrets at once. Greek authorities have approved a five-year extension for an international team of explorers to continue probing the remains of a 2,085-year-old shipwreck known for holding what is considered the world's oldest computer.

Newly formed marine services company Ardent and a salvage and diving firm from Spain have been contracted to remove oil from a sunken fishing trawler which sank off the coast of the Canary Islands in April and has been slowly leaking oil, threatening nearby tourist beaches.

Aqueos Corporation, a premier subsea services provider for the offshore oil and gas sectors of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific West Coast, is pleased to announce the delivery of SPLASH™, a Special Purpose Liveboat and Survey Hull to specifically address safety concerns with traditional methods of Liveboating.

Since the 1990s the U.S. Navy has increasingly used AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for monitoring the underwater weather and, lately, much else. Newer models like SeaExplorer have more sensors, better controls and more reliable communications than older models. With AUVs like this the navy can inexpensively monitor large expanses of ocean for underwater conditions and all sorts of activity.

With the ARROWS project, EU-funded researchers are turning deep-sea archeological exploration from a risky and out-of-reach undertaking to a flexible and affordable solution. When Plato first came up with the myth of Atlantis, he probably didn’t expect that the mysterious island would keep stirring debates and feeding popular imagination for over 2000 years.

One container is already delivered and in operation, the other is being built at our workshop in Raamsdonksveer. The dive control container is divided in two sections: one dive control section and a dive helmet workshop section. The air-conditioned dive control section is fitted with two large windows on both longitudinal sides near the front end of the container, allowing a clear external view when sitting behind the dive control panel. These windows come equipped with a heat preventing foil.