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The Australian government has launched the 2021 round of oil and gas licensing as part of strategies to promote offshore exploration. The government announced that it has opened bidding for 21 exploration blocks across the Bonaparte, Browse, Carnarvon, Otway, Sorell and Gippsland basins off Western Australia,...

The IBM-sponsored autonomous vessel prototype Mayflower has departed the UK, bound on a transatlantic voyage to Plymouth, Massachusetts.  The AI-enabled, electric-powered vessel was developed by IBM with the non-profit ocean research organization ProMare and a partnership of scientific organizations. It was formally launched in Plymouth, England...

The U.S. Coast Guard is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to document the historic shipwreck of the Coast Guard cutter McCulloch, which was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. The McCulloch was commissioned in 1897, and at the time of...