Wrenhaven Marine Institute
3 stories25 OctoberSunday
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Tidal turbine prototype starts generating in the channel off Fenwick Point
The 500-kilowatt machine sits on the seabed and turns with the incoming and outgoing tides, and engineers will spend two years testing how it copes with strong currents.
21 OctoberWednesday
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Shipping lines agree voluntary slow zones on North Atlantic whale routes
Member states of an international maritime body have backed seasonal slow-speed areas along whale migration corridors in the North Atlantic, asking ships to cut speed to 10 knots where humpbacks gather.
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Wrenhaven scientists join survey tracking giant iceberg off West Antarctica
Researchers from the Wrenhaven Marine Institute are part of an international team following a newly calved iceberg roughly twice the size of the city as it drifts away from a West Antarctic glacier.
