Port Canaveral
Port Canaveral to Dedicate New Boat Ramp
The Canaveral Port Authority will officially dedicate the new East Boat Ramp near Jetty Park at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 6. The free boat launch facility is larger than the Freddie Patrick Park ramps, which were demolished for construction of new Cruise Terminal 1 in the Cove. The terminal is scheduled to open in November. The new boat ramps are the result of staff collaboration with the boating community. As promised, the complex features 8 slips, 2 pavilions, fish-cleaning tables, restrooms, boat rinse station, paved parking and a grass overflow parking lot. The $4.6 million complex also has accessibility for the disabled.
Royal Caribbean Announces Winter 2015-16 Schedule
Four of the Regions Largest and Most Innovative Cruise Ships to Sail from Port Everglades and Port Canaveral. The cruise line has announced that Allure of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas, Freedom of the Seas and Serenade of the Seas will sail the Caribbean from convenient Florida homeports for the winter 2015-16 season, which are now open for sale. Sister-ships Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas will offer vacationers still-matched Caribbean cruises in the 2015-16 winter season. Both ships will homeport at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
SeaRobotics Delivers Autonomous Hull Cleaning System
SeaRobotics has delivered the first HullBUG (Hull Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming) System to the Center for Corrosion and Biofouling Control at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. This will be tested and further developed at the newly commissioned Large Scale Seawater Facility , which is located at Port Canaveral and funded by the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR). The HullBUG system is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed to crawl on ship hulls or other underwater structures and "groom" their surface.
