Category: REV

NORWAY, March 5, 2025 – The REV Ocean vessel has completed its initial construction phase at Vard Søviknes  shipyard in Norway and will now proceed to Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) in the Netherlands for the final stage of exterior and interior outfitting. DSV, part of the larger DAMEN Shipyards group, is located in the south […]

Registration Link:  Click Here We are thrilled to announce the Second Submersible Operators Meeting (SOG 2024), which will be held in Fornebu (Oslo), Norway. This invite is open to members of the submersible community, operators of submersibles, submersible manufacturers and classification bodies whose expertise and insights are invaluable to our collective pursuit of safe submersible operations. […]

Tromsø, Norway, May 3 – REV Ocean, in collaboration with UiT and Ocean Census, is sending its best equipment and technical team to support 36 world class scientists who will be discovering new sea species in the Arctic and Barents Sea. Scheduled from May 3 to May 31, the Extreme24 expedition will leverage REV Ocean’s […]

Fornebu/Ålesund, 10.11.23.  An agreement on completion of the REV Ocean vessel has been reached with the shipbuilder VARD. To ensure the functionality of the vessel, the vessel will be lengthened by 12 meters and modified in certain areas. This will also provide more space and increased science capacity in the main hangar of the vessel. […]

Introducing Eva Ramirez-Llodra, the newly appointed Science Director of REV Ocean. Hailing from Barcelona, Spain, Eva’s journey to this role began in a unique manner. She spent her formative years in a French school until the age of 12. Following that, Eva embarked on an extraordinary eight-year global adventure with her parents and brother, navigating […]

Background: Coral reefs are the Rain Forests of the Ocean, supporting one in every four marine species, the livelihoods of 1 billion people, and offering coastal protection. They are currently at grave risk! 75-90% are predicted to be lost under climate change by 2050 even if we meet our most ambitious climate goals. Programme: May […]

A unique new volcano has been discovered at 400 meters depth in the Barents Sea. The volcano erupts mud, fluids and gas from the planet’s interior, giving new insight into Earth science. Photo: UiT/AKMA3 The AKMA3 expedition led by scientists from UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, in partnership with REV Ocean, has discovered the […]

There are estimated to be 2.2 million species in our ocean, yet only 240,000 have been described through rigorous scientific methods. Meaning roughly 90% of the ocean is still to be properly described. To accelerate species discovery, the Nippon Foundation has launched the Ocean Census programme, a new global initiative focussed on finding at least […]

April 2023. During this cruise, the REV Ocean team helped install new equipment for the Lofoten-Vesterålen Ocean Observatory (LoVe Ocean) located in a highly productive coastal shelf-slope area, and in an environment sensitive to external stressors. LoVe Ocean is a multi-purpose observatory network with scientific nodes forming a westward transect. Mission page Previous Next

The purpose of this cruise, led by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) was to investigate pelagic and demersal fish, seabed, benthic habitat and physical oceanography in and outside Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. The cruise also installed the ObsFAD (FAD with sensors for monitoring the environment and fish). The observations will be used in […]