After Aditya and Chandrayaan, now India aims to scale depth of oceans with SamudrayaanIndian scientists are preparing to embark on Project Samudrayaan, an ambitious mission to explore the depths of the ocean in search of prec...
India's Samudrayaan project on track, construction of manned submersible vehicle apace: Kiren RijijuThe Indian National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) is working on a mission to send a manned submersible vehicle called 'Matsya 6000' ...
India-Norway Blue economy partnership takes shape with focus on ocean industriesOthers in attendance were Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Ministry of New ...
Indigenous submersible vehicle Matsya 6000 will be ready as planned for Samudrayaan: NIOT DirectorThe manned submersible, designed to carry three people in 2.1 meter diameter Titanium Alloy Personnel Sphere, is being developed by the Min...
How Deep Ocean Mission will further government's vision of 'blue economy'The development and launch of Matsya 6000 is part of India’s ambitious Deep Ocean Mission, for which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ha...
Why the Navy wants to sink INS Cuddalore off PuducherryIn a couple of months, the decommissioned minesweeper will be sunk in the waters 7km off the Puducherry coast to become India’s first under...
Naval sub INS Sindhudhvaj begins underwater search for missing Dornier planeSubmarine INS Sindhudhvaj arrived in the area (coastline in Karikkal-Cuddalore region) late yesterday and commenced underwater search.
Expert team working on locating missing Dornier plane, its CVRAccording to Coast Guard, there is no similarity of pattern between the two aircrafts -the one that went down last December and the missing...
Deep-sea crawler to help mine minerals"We have also developed a soil tester that will be deployed, before the crawler is sent, to test the strength of the seabed," explained Sat...
Studying the sea: India prepares to dive deep with manned craftIndia will join an elite group of nations sending man underwater in a craft. At present, only China, US, Russia, France and Japan have cond...
Underwater robots in Bay of Bengal to better predict monsoonMinistry of Earth Sciences Secretary M Rajeevan said the Indian Research Vessel Sindhu Sadhana carrying scientists will sail from Chennai o...
'Centre committed to making Andhra Pradesh a scientifically advanced state'"I can assure on behalf of Centre that we are committed to make the state of (Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu) one of the most scientifi...
India's Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle in North Antarctica operationalisedPROVe had been undergoing trial in Antarctica for the past two months since its deployment by the NIOT in "Priyadarshini lake" on the Schir...
India to procure ship that can break through 1.5-m thick iceIn addition to the PRV , four other vessels, including two that would help in coastal research, will be replaced in the next three years.
Over 40 per cent Indian coastline eroding: ExpertOver 40 per cent of Indian coastline is eroding, higher than the previous estimate of about 36 per cent, a senior coastal management offici...
- Ocean centre creates sea cages to breed fish
If National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has its way, fishermen along the Tamil Nadu coast can sail just a few kilometres into the ...
This is one vagary met department couldn’t predictThese installations are not just on land, some of them are at sea. Items being stolen include solar panels, batteries and even data loggers.