Today’s oceans contain tens of millions tons of waste, with approximately 94% located on the seafloor. Existing collection efforts have focused mostly on surface waste,... Read More

The Black Sea Maritime Archaeological Project (BSMAP) was an ambitious exploration of sea level rise in the Black Sea by the University of Southampton’s Centre... Read More

The recent decade has seen the rapid development of new technological solutions in the service of underwater archaeology, which scholars working on the coastline of... Read More

In the evolving landscape of autonomous maritime operations,the synergy between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) represents a frontier of technological innovation... Read More

The ocean is vital to all living beings but still needs to be explored, leaving many questions unanswered. Fortunately, underwater robotics has greatly improved ocean... Read More

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea suffers from multiple stressors, including an unprecedented increase in the number of non-indigenous species, one of the fastest rates of warming... Read More

There is an increasing concern on how anthropogenic underwater noise affects marine mammals. Marine mammals, and especially cetaceans (whales and dolphins) rely on sound for... Read More

Recent advances in the field of neural networks enable translation between languages even in cases where no dictionary is available, such as ancient languages. The... Read More

The development and use of autonomous boats and ships is steadily progressing; autonomous boats are already commercially available, and there are many ongoing research projects... Read More

Underwater photogrammetry has become a key technique for studying and understanding the underwater world in many application fields, such as exploration and mapping, industry and... Read More