SINTEF Ocean news

International requirements, collaboration across national frontiers and the need for simulator training held centre stage at an industry meeting on emergency and ocean towing in Tromsø.

Norwegian Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker (Con.) recently visited MARINTEK, accompanied by a delegation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries.

The shipping companies that are contributing to the Smart Maritime SFI have great hopes of this major research effort: they are anticipating solutions that will lead to reduced emissions from vessels.

A series of model tests of a floating wind-turbine using a completely new method has recently been carried out in MARINTEK's ocean laboratory.

650,000 listeners followed MARINTEK's participation in "The Office Games" on NRK's programme "Norgesglasset". Erin Elizabeth Bachynski and Arnt Christian Wolden, the fastest competitors from our staff, put in an impressive performance in the...

No fewer than nine Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI) were opened by NTNU and SINTEF recently. The Smart Maritime centre is led by MARINTEK, and it alone has been awarded NOK 192 million to fund its research for the coming eight years.

Escapes of fish have long been a problem for the aquaculture industry. But now, improvements in technology and systematic research have drastically reduced the number of escapes.

NTNU hopes that the Ocean Space Exploration Day will inspire young people to appreciate technology while they are still at junior secondary school. This makes it an obvious strategy for the University (NTNU) to invite pupils to MARINTEK's many...

This time lapse video shows the process of upgrading the bottom of the Ocean Basin Laboratory at MARINTEK.