Monday, October 24th, 2011
The wreck of a ship believed to have been part of the ill-fated attempts by Kublai Khan, the Mongolian ruler of China in the 13th century, to invade Japan has been found lying relatively intact under the...
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
China will accelerate its pace of mapping the deep seabed, Zhang Jixian, president of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, told China Daily. Unlike the electronic navigation chart released by the Chinese navy on Aug 25...
Monday, July 18th, 2011
The Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has elected Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Peter Thomson, as its President for the ISA’s annual session currently underway in Kingston, Jamaica. The Assembly is the supreme...
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
The seabed close to the epicentre of the March 11 earthquake has moved some 24 metres east-south-east and risen about 3 metres, according to a Japan Coast Guard survey released Wednesday. The magnitude-9 temblor that jolted north-eastern Japan...
