pacificocean.dev

#Pacific Ocean | Development

#Equinor | Morro Bay | 2-gigawatt (GW) offshore wind lease | Commercial-scale floating offshore wind development | Ocean Infinity conducting site investigation survey using multiple AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) at Equinor floating offshore wind lease area

#Coastal Conservation Association Of California

#Garmin | On Deck Smart Boat System

#System 03 | Harvesting plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Aiming to deliver the blueprint design for scaling toward a fleet of systems | The Ocean Cleanup

#Spot LNG Prices | Contract based price of spot LNG USD/MMBtu | Arrival based price is USD/MMBtu |》British Thermal Unit | Global LGN Hub

#LNG price spike causes energy crises in strapped Asian nations | Nikkei Asia

#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Solomon Islands | Australian trade links with Japan, South Korea and the US | Undersea cables connecting US and Australian telecommunications system | USA congressional funding for projects in the Pacific | Climate resilience infrastructure | Combating illegal fishing | Investing in marine conservation | Pacific Islands Forum

#ROS | Robot Operating System | Open source software development kit for robotics applications | Standard software platform to robotic application developers | Research | Prototyping | Deployment | Production

#RayMarine | Marine Electronics

#Rosetti Superyachts | Emocean | Fully custom superyacht | Custom designed wine cellar | Italian shipyard | Speaking with subcontractors | Rosetti Marino Group | Hydro Tec | Priorities included spending long periods on board regardless of sea conditions | Pushing the use of space to the limit | 793 gallons of refrigerator and freezer space for long term provisions | Virtuous circle where all parties felt free to throw on the table new ideas and concepts to incorporate in the design | Selecting the best contractor for each element | Exploration oriented projects

#Radioactive Water Dumping | Research

#Tritium Leakage | Research

#Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Research

#Marine Pollution | Research

#Fertilizers | Research

#Chemicals | Research

#Hypoxua | Research

#Dead Zone | Research

#Marine Depris | Research

#El Nino Southern Oscillation | Research

#Monsoon | Research

#Wet Season | Research

#Tropical Cyclone | Research

#Pacific Hurricanes | Research

#Typhoons | Research

#Jet Stream | Research

#Extra Tropical Cyclones | Research

#Grest Depths | Research

#Agreement On Ending Plastic Pollution | Research

#Full Life Cycle Of Plastic | Research

#Widening Scope Beyond Tackling Waste | Research

#Ocean Fungus Digesting Plastic | Research

#Bio Products Developmeng To Break Plastics | Research

#Compliance Rules For Fishing | Research

#UN Resolution On Ending Plastic Waste | Research

#New Circular Economies Establishment | Research

#Better Waste Monitoring | Research

#Sustainable Production | Research

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#MIT | Earth System Model

#Azure Funding | Boat Loans

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#Commonwealth | Pacific | Australia | Fiji | Kiribati | Nauru | New Zealand | Papua New Guinea | Samoa | Solomon Islands | Tonga | Tuvalu | Vanuatu

#Heesen | Acquire yachts that are already under construction | Platform concept | Proven engineering platform | Tested hulls | Semi custom series | Unique exterior design | Ability to personalise the yacht | Reducing both delivery time and costs | Producing in lines | Exclusivity is guaranteed | Production numbers of each platform are limited | Ability to build completely different yachts using an identical platform

#Doyle Sails | Sail solutions | Cruising | Main sales | Head sales | Code sales | Downwind sales

#Monte Fino E Class Explorer | Global demand for expedition style cruising in an eco-friendly way | Kha Shing | Taiwan | Developed using fluid dynamics | Eco efficient cruising across long distances | Octoplex tablet for monitoring and operating systems

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board

#Equinor | Floating offshore wind

#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel | Echo sounders to determine the shape of the volcano | Developing and supporting understanding of the eruption undersea impact

#Seabed2030 | Research mapping the global ocean floor

#New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) | Nippon Foundation | Seabed2030

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#Elroy Air | Autonomous cargo aircraft systems| Vertical take off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft | Specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods | Commercial logistics | Disaster relief | Firefighting | Humanitarian operations | Replacing difficult ground transportation | Detachable pod | Dropping off cargo | Pickkung up ready to go cargo | Makint deliveries fast | Allowing ground crew to empty or load a pod at their leisure

#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets

#Stora Enso | Renewable and recyclable paperboard solutions | Wood fibers in disposable cutlery | Pulp for food packaging | Formed fiber products

#Ocean Cleanup | Maritime affairs and investment in Indonesia | Aiding river plastic waste solutions and waste management | Interceptors | Aiming to deliver cleaner and plastic-free rivers for Indonesia | Trying to close the tap on ocean plastic pollution

#Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology | | Autonomous lander | Dropped into the Izu Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan | Pseudoliparis filmed swimming at 8,336m (27,349ft)

#Inkfish | Deep sea exploration

#G7 | Building network of undersea communication cables to serve developing and emerging countries

#Pacific Islands Forum | Japan to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean

#Hyundai Glovis | Collaborating with Ocean Cleanup | Data gathering to cameras placed on Hyundai Glovis vessels | Logistical support to help transport and deployment of cleaning solutions around the world

#Coralmaker | Autodesk | Training an artificial intelligence to control collaborative robots (cobots) | Coral propagation | Robotic arm to graft or glue coral fragments to the seed plugs | Using vision systems to make decisions about how to grab it | Robots to recognise coral fragments and figure out how to handle them | Biodiversity credits

#Open Ocean Robotics | Autonomous robotic data collection platform and cloud-based software system to provide real-time data acquisition with AI driven analytics | Solar powered uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) | Cloud-based data management and USV control system

#eD-TEC | Electric-propulsion system

#Blue Innovations Group | E-Boat technology | Electric boat | Electric-powered boat | Solar power to recharge batteries

#Chris-Craft | Electric boat

#Four Winns | Electric boat

#Zen Yachts | Catamaran with wingsail and solar power

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Magrathea Metals | Extracting magnesium from ocean water and from waste brine generated by industry | Magnesium: lighter and stronger than steel, critical to aircraft, automobile, steel, and defense industries | Strategic issue | Waste brines, often from desalination plants bought | Waste water from coal-fired power plants, pumped out of oil and gas wells, from hard-rock mining; and desalination plants | 18,000 desalination plants, globally | 23 trillion gallons of ocean water a year | 37 billion gallons of brine daily | Desalination waste back into the ocean settles to sea floor and damage marine ecosystems

#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#Infinera | Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and optical transmission equipment | Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) | Technology supports high-capacity data transport | Powering global submarine networks | Leading subsea networking industry in Asia-Pacific region

#Google | Pacific Connect Initiative | Building multiple cable systems in the Pacific

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#Daewoo Shipbuilding | Deeveloping hydrogen powered vessels

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#NavVis | Point cloud processing workflow | Surveying | Laser scanning | Process laser scan data captured using NavVis technology from anywhere with internet connection | View and validate every control point | Ensure data privacy with fully automated and integrated blurring functionality | Point cloud presets | Environment-specific point cloud modes | Generate photorealistic point clouds automatically cleaned of dynamic objects while preserving original details and colors | Upload your geo-referenced control points file in global coordinate system | Automatically geo-register your point cloud | View control points exact location on quality map | Locate, verify, select/deselect control points to identify any potential errors before processing begins | Automated image anonymization process | Detecting and blurring individuals’ faces, bodies, and license plates in images and point clouds captured with NavVis devices | Confidently create and share projects that meet strict data confidentiality | Meet compliance standards, including GDPR requirements | Download comprehensive quality report | Detailed information on data accuracy

#Olympic Surfing | Athletes performing maneuvers and tricks on waves | Evaluated by five judges based on variety, type, and difficulty | Speed, power, and flow, seamless connection between move also key factors in judging

#Liebherr Maritime | Port equipment | Ship to shore container cranes | Mobile harbour cranes | Rubber tyre gantry cranes | Offshore cranes | Ship cranes | Bulk, cargo and container handling cranes

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#Release Marlin Fighting Chair

#Jupiter Marine | Boat building

#Invincible | Boats

#Pipewelders |Marlin Tower

#OceanYacht | Design

#Tribute | Custom Boats

#Marine Jet Power Propulsion

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#SeaVee Boats | Custom boat builder | 420Z | Hull, liner, deck, console, and all small parts made using vacuum-assisted resin-transfer infusion process, with PVC core material for weight savings, strength, and manufacturing consistency

#Suzuki Marine | Motors for bass boats, bay boats flats skiffs, performance pontoon, deck boats, large offshore center consoles

#Mercury | DriftHook | Maintaining boat heading while allowing for natural drift with wind and current

#CutWater | Boats

#Crevalle | Boats

#Cobia Boats | Boats

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#Moonen Yachts | Semi-custom shipyard | Moonen Martinique yacht

#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands