Wrenhaven Marine Institute

25 October 2026, Sunday

16:33 Technology 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. Rafael Ortega

21 October 2026, Wednesday

22:53 World 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. Lucas Moreau

04:08 World 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. Ingrid Halvorsen