We’ve all seen the movies — Run Silent, Run Deep; Das Boot; U-571, and others — in which the submarine captain orders “up periscope,” a big tube rises, the capt... Read more
Scientists have developed an octopus-like robot, which can zoom through water with ultra-fast propulsion and acceleration never before seen in man-made underwater vehicles. Most fast aquatic... Read more
From cumbersome dinosaur undercover to anguilliform spy? On 24 October 2014, Sweden called off the hunt for a submarine after a week-long underwater search in the Stockholm archipelago. Trig... Read more
New drug delivery method targets cancer cells – not the entire body – and limits chemotherapy side effects Chemotherapeutic drugs excel at fighting cancer, but they’re not so efficient at ge... Read more
For the past 70 years, the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory has conducted ocean research and engineering. Now they are teaming up with a local submersible company to bui... Read more
Kamran Mohseni envisions a day when the unmanned vehicles in his laboratory at the University of Florida will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path o... Read more
The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) is developing an unmanned vessel optimized to robustly track quiet diesel electric submarines. The program is struct... Read more
Diesel-electric submarines are a growing worry for the maritime nations of the world. Submarine combat may seem like an obsolete relic from World War II films and Cold War thrillers, but the... Read more
Recreational submarines are a burgeoning market If the amount of personal submarine stories crossing our desks in recent years is any indication, recreational submarines are a burgeon... Read more
IN THE second world war, many Allied ships were painted with dark and light stripes, and other contrasting shapes, making them look a bit like zebra. The idea was to distort an enemy submari... Read more
Given the deepwater working conditions endured by submarines, one of the last things most people would want to do is drill holes through their hulls. That’s exactly what is necessary,... Read more
One thing was very clear at the recent Future of Electric Vehicles conference in San Jose – innovative design and development of electric vehicles is not restricted to the automotive sector.... Read more