{"id":6936,"date":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2005\/12\/01\/below-the-waterline-the-weak-link\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:28:20","slug":"below-the-waterline-the-weak-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/terminal-operations\/below-the-waterline-the-weak-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Below the waterline: the weak link?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mjc-gate__lead-in\"><p>Underwater security is currently considered a weak link for ports in the battle against terrorism. \" We are working to augment divers with technology,\" says Dr Douglas Todoroff, director of sensing and systems division of the Office of Naval Research in the US. \" Theres a need for regular surveys of ports to accurately geo-reference databases.\" Identifying anomalies on vessel hulls could provide protection from threats such as limpet mines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mjc-gate mjc-gate--full mjc-gate--anon\" data-mjc-gate=\"anon\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"mjc-gate__body\">\n\n        \n                            <h2 class=\"mjc-gate__heading\">Continue reading this article<\/h2>\n            \n                            <p class=\"mjc-gate__text\">Registration is currently closed. Sign in if you already have an account.<\/p>\n            \n        \n                    <p class=\"mjc-gate__actions\">\n                <a class=\"btn btn-primary mjc-gate__button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/login\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstrategy.com%2Fgreenport%2Fnews%2Fterminal-operations%2Fbelow-the-waterline-the-weak-link%2F\">\n                    Sign in                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwater security is currently considered a weak link for ports in the battle against terrorism. &#8221; We are working to augment divers with technology,&#8221; says Dr Douglas Todoroff, director of sensing and systems division of the Office of Naval Research in the US. &#8221; Theres a need for regular surveys of ports to accurately geo-reference databases.&#8221; Identifying anomalies on vessel hulls could provide protection from threats such as limpet mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}