Dear Members, In the first message in this series dated 15 April 2018, I promised to update you on the events that has been organised and held since our inception on 14th Dec 2018. I am pleased to do so in this message.   Floating Nuclear Power Plant Our first and perhaps our most important…

Dear Members, Dr Sabet, our Second VP and I had the opportunity to address some very senior members of the marine engineering community, Monday, 7th May. The talk was titled “Finding 56 sq km of land for another million people before 2030” We had a warm reception and many interesting questions during the Q &…

Finding space to accommodate an additional one million people by 2030 should be a piece of cake for many countries. However, for Singapore it is Herculean task. Only four countries in the world have a population density greater than 5000 people per sq km: Macau, Monaco, Singapore and Hong Kong. Singapore is unique among them,…

By 2030, the population of Singapore according to the White Paper tabled in 2013 is expected to reach 6.9 million, an increase of slightly more than a million. The Ministry of National Development (MND) estimates Singapore needs an additional 56 sq. km of land. For this, based on an average water depth of -5 meters,…

Dear Members, My hearty greetings to all! This is the first, hopefully of many, regular messages I will deliver in the course of my term as President. Our Society was registered in December 2017. The present 11 members were the founding members. In our brief history, we have organised (a) a lecture by MIT Professor…