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The Underwater Technology Podcast

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Weekly short podcast from the Society for Underwater Technology featuring news & an interview with an expert on underwater technology, engineering, science, history & policy from across the international subsea world. For more about SUT visit www.sut.org, email info@sut.org SUT is a Learned Society for underwater technology, engineering & science established 1966. We're a Charity / Not for Profit in most of the countries where we operate. Local branches in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, M ...
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This week we speak with Deborah Greaves, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Director of the COAST at Plymouth University, and leader of the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub. University of Plymouth - Centre for Decarbonisation and Offshore Renewable Energy https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-decarbonisation-and-offshore-renewa…
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This week we spoke with Jonathan Colby, innovator in the Marine Renewable Energy Industry. Recorded in April 2024, Jonathan speaks about his life in the underwater world, from his experience in tidal energy to his work in Standards and Conformity Assessment in the IEC. Jonathan is the President and Founder of Streamwise Development, a client-driven…
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This week we spoke with Julie Angus. As well as being Co-founder and CEO of Open Ocean Robotics, Julie was also the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland. Click to learn more about Open Ocean Robotics and connect with Julie on LinkedIn. Click to see our host, Martin Stemp, RS Aqua, OceanTechJobs on LinkedIn. Find ou…
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This week we speak with Pete Girguis, Professor of Marine Sciences at Harvard University, and the 2023 winner of the SUT’s Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration. Find Pete on LinkedIn here, and follow Pete on Twitter X. Click to find out more about the Girguis Lab at Harvard University. Click to see our host, Martin Stemp, RS Aqua, OceanTec…
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This week we're speaking with Dan Hook - Consultant Marine Technologist, qualified Naval Architect, and Chartered Engineer with nearly 20 years of experience in the unmanned marine industry. Find Dan Hook on LinkedIn here. Click to find out more about RAD Propulsion, L3 Harris, and Ocean Infinity. Click to see our host, Martin Stemp, RS Aqua, Ocean…
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This week we’re speaking with offshore geotechnical engineer Professor Susan Gourvenec about her life and work in Perth and the UK. Susan is Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Southampton, and the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - specialising in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering.…
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This week we’re speaking with Perth-based offshore engineer, Matt Allen who has pioneered reef engineering globally. He and his team have built 40 massive reefs for tourism, fisheries enhancement, decommissioning and habit enhancement, and will be telling us how he’s used underwater technology to design, construct and monitor the reefs. Find out mo…
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In this episode we talk with Rustom “Rusty” Jehangir, founder of Blue Robotics and winner of this year's SUT Gwyn Griffiths Award for Underwater Robotics. Rusty speaks about his appreciation of receiving the award, and how he founded Blue Robotics to be a forward-looking, innovative supplier of robotics components enabling the future of ocean explo…
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In this episode, we talk with David Kerr, Director with Tidal Engineering and Environmental Services Ltd. David speaks about tidal range initiatives and the benefits that this can bring to the energy mix of the UK national grid. Check out the Tidal Engineering and Environmental Services website at https://tidalengineering.co.uk Find out more about …
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In this episode, we talk with Tyler de Gier, Engineering Manager for Ashtead Technology’s inspection and integrity engineering business. Tyler speaks about development and operation of their optical chain measurement system, and why it is critical to be able to provide accurate, reliable, and repeatable monitoring of mooring chains. Watch the Chain…
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In this episode, we talk with Sarah Brown, manager of the Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF). SMEEF is a fresh new opportunity and approach to funding projects in the marine and coastal environment. The fund will enable users benefiting from marine ecosystem services to voluntarily re-invest in the health and biodiversity of our…
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This week we talk with Fugro's Peter Richards, Designer and Chief Engineer and James Amos Business Development Manager for Marine Infrastructure Solutions. Peter and James talk about Fugro's development of a vertical boring machine (VBM™), a tool that accelerates the subsea construction phase of fixed wind turbines. Find out more about Fugro at www…
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In this episode, we talk with Dave Shaw, owner of Diving Services UK, and designer of the Underwater Stage, now managed by Dave on behalf of Pinewood Studios, London. Dave speaks about some of the complexities and technologies involved in setting up and capturing underwater scenes for TV and film, and more, giving us a fascinating insight into what…
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In this episode we talk with Michele Stanley, Associate Director for Science, Enterprise and Innovation at SAMS - the Scottish Association for Marine Science. Michele talks about the work of SAMS in the field of seaweed farming and research, how seaweed can be cultivated as a sustainable energy and food source and its benefits for absorbing Carbon …
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In this episode, we talk with Jill Zande, president of MATE Inspiration for Innovation. Jill speaks about her 20-year involvement in the MATE ROV competition, how this has grown to an internationally recognised competition with global participation, and how it is actively inspiring the next generation of marine and subsea engineers. Find out more a…
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In this episode, we talk with Tyler de Gier, General Manager of Welaptega, Ashtead Technology’s inspection and integrity engineering business. Tyler speaks about their best-in-class asset integrity inspection technology and how they have innovated to provide inspection as a remote operation. Find out more about Ashtead at www.ashtead-technology.com…
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In this episode, we are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural SUT Gwyn Griffiths Award for Underwater Robotics. Alex Tomaszek, COO and co-founder of 1CSI speaks about the recognition of the Gwyn Griffiths award, how she arrived at a career in underwater robotics and gives an insight into the work of 1CSI. Alex also speaks about women in e…
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In this episode, we talk with Martin Sayer, Managing Director of Tritonia Scientific and interim chair of the SUT's Diving and Manned Submersibles Special Interest Group. Martin speaks about the work of Tritonia Scientific in development of diving survey techniques and his extensive background in diving and marine science. Find out more about Trito…
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In this episode, we talk with Jeff Neasham, senior lecturer at Newcastle University and principal of the SEALab research group. Jeff speaks about a range of exciting developments in acoustic technology including an acoustic listening project which led to findings of quietening in the oceans during COVID lockdown. Jeff also speaks about involvement …
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nIn this episode we talk with Dr Atmanand from the Indian Institute of Technology. Atmanand speaks about involvement in the forthcoming IEEE/MTS Oceans 2022 conference held in India, and an extensive career in subsea technology developments including deepsea mining, manned submersibles, ROVs, water desalination, coastal protection, tsunami warning,…
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Welcome to Season 3 of the Underwater Technology Podcast! In this episode, we talk with Ross MacFarlane, USV Policy and Public Affairs Advisor with Fugro. Ross speaks about the MASSPeople programme, intended to improve regulation and people competencies in the fast-growing field of autonomous and uncrewed surface vessels. The MASSPeople working gro…
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We're back with a special bonus episode to tide you over between seasons 2 and 3! We relive some of our favorite subsea facts from season 2 and give you some interesting stats about the podcast. We have had an amazing variety of facts, but also a variety of types of facts, from understanding the scale and size of various subsea tech, and those brea…
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In this episode, we talk with Paul Cook, Senior Product Manager for Renewables at Proserv. Paul speaks about their ECG™ development, Electro Cable Guard, in collaboration with Synaptec and BPP Cable Solutions, a game-changing technology for real-time health monitoring of critical offshore wind subsea cables. Find out more about Proserv at www.prose…
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In this episode, we talk with Professor Stephen de Mora, IMarEST ambassador for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Stephen, who is an SUT Oceanography Award winner, talks about his career in ocean science, and key messages, initiatives, and goals for the UN decade. Find out more about the UN Ocean Decade here www.oceandecad…
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In this episode we talk with Katie Cross, Lucy Shuff and Nathan Formosa from the SUT's Marine Environmental Science Special Interest Group, a newly-created forum for professionals from industry, academia, and government to discuss and share ideas, technologies, applications, concepts, and policies for marine environmental science. We learn what wor…
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In this episode, we talk with Nicolas Droushiotis of CHC (Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company). Nicolas talks about the Eastern Mediterranean energy market, subsea tieback developments, and how Cyprus fits in with the European Energy Strategy both for today and for the future. Nicolas also talks about development of a new Eastern Mediterranean branch of th…
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How do you complete a survey operation in Norway and deliver real-time survey data to the US without stepping out the door of your facility in Ireland? We find out how with James Ives, CEO of XOCEAN. James talks about offering ocean data collection as a turnkey service, and how XOCEAN achieves this using uncrewed surface vessels to provide remotely…
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In this episode we talk with Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director at Orbital Marine Power Ltd. Oliver talks about the development of their O2 tidal turbine, the world's most powerful tidal turbine, and how this can help in the path towards the goal of clean energy. Find out more at orbitalmarine.com or find them on YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook. Find…
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In this episode, we talk with Tricia Hill, Chair and President of the SUT US branch. Tricia talks about her background in the subsea industry, her involvement in the SUT, and what work the SUT US branch is doing to promote the subsea industry. Find out more about the SUT US branch at https://sut-us.org/ Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, conta…
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This week we speak with Andrew Connelly, our Underwater Technology Podcast host! Andrew is an active SUT Member serving on SUT Council and the SUT Aberdeen branch, but also has a day job working as the Product Line Manager at Imenco, providing smart solutions to the ocean industries. Find out more about Imenco at imenco.no Find out more about SUT a…
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In this episode, we talk with Teo van der Kammen from ORE Catapult. Teo talks about his background in tidal energy developments and the work that ORE Catapult is doing with the TIGER project to promote the development of tidal energy technology. Find out more about the TIGER Project at https://interregtiger.com/ Find out more about ORE Catapult at …
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In this episode, we talk with Fraser Milne, Engineering and Projects Director at Balmoral. Fraser talks about the Balmoral product line past, present, and future, and how they are adapting to keep up with changing markets in the offshore world. Find out more at www.balmoraloffshore.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via info@sut…
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In this episode, we talk with Oliver Steeds from Nekton. Oliver talks about what Nekton is doing to drive creation of ocean conservation areas, ensuring that local authorities are involved in conservation and research initiatives and how technology can play a part in the protection of the ocean. Find out more about Nekton at https://nektonmission.o…
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In this episode, we talk with Toby Powell, SUT Fellow and Engineering Manager for Geotechnics, Pre-Commissioning & Technical Safety with Subsea 7. Toby talks about what is involved with a role in geotechnics and site investigation and how energy transition is affecting this. He also talks about his involvement with the SUT, the OSIG committee, and …
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In this episode, we talk with Steve Sasanow, the founding editor of Subsea Engineering News and author of the Subsea Watcher blog. Steve talks about how Subsea Engineering News was founded and what subsea engineering and technology was like in the 1980's. Read subsea news articles on Steve's Subsea Watcher blog here - www.keltd.co.uk Find out more …
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In this episode we talk with Paul Slorach, Business Development Director at EC-OG, a subsea technology solutions provider based in Aberdeen, UK. We talk about EC-OG’s technology developments in the arena of subsea power including their Halo battery technology and how this can make a difference to offshore operations. https://ec-og.com/ paul.slorach…
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Welcome to season 2 of the Underwater Technology Podcast! To kick us off, Andrew speaks to the SUT’s new CEO, Dr. Cheryl Burgess. We find out about her background in the subsea industry, her love for the underwater world, her future plans for the SUT, and how she thinks we can inspire the next generation to get excited about careers in the ocean. F…
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Join us for Season 2 of the Underwater Technology Podcast on 1st April 2021. So far we’ve had 50 episodes covering a huge range of topics, such as Ocean Exploration, the Blue Economy, and numerous Subsea Innovations. We've put a small handful of highlights in this trailer; there were so many great clips we would have loved to include! Catch up on S…
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In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Anna Lambert – Head of Programme Delivery at SubSea Craft based in Havant UK. Anna talks about SubSea Craft's background and their current development of 'VICTA', a specialist submersible craft that delivers divers discreetly. She focuses on the building blocks of such a project's deve…
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This week SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks with Joe Nicolette from Montrose/EPS in Georgia, USA about how Net Environmental Benefit Analysis based Comparative Assessment (NEBA-CA) can be applied to offshore and subsea decommissioning projects, potentially resulting in long-term benefits to ecological, social, and economic values. A 13-minu…
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This week SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks to Dr Ed Steele from the UK Met Office in Exeter about the range of ocean and weather data products that the Met Office is able to provide to offshore industry users including ship operators, offshore hydrocarbons platforms, helicopter ops, and marine renewables. Ed is also active in the South Wes…
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Professor Richard Whitehouse is a long-serving SUT member who has been involved with our special interest groups on Environmental Forces & Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics. His specialist area is understanding sediment dynamics around seabed structures such as wind farm monopiles. In this interview, with our former CEO, Steve Hall, Richa…
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In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Marco Gilissen – Global UXO Marine Risk Mitigation Director and Offshore Wind Site Appraisal and Design Array Solution Owner at Fugro. Marco talks about UXO risk mitigation and the processes involved to deal with UXO issues that are experienced by different markets around the globe. co…
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In this interview, our former CEO Steve Hall speaks to Professor William Megill, Matt Silver-Vallance, Dr Björn Backeberg & Nick Cunningham-Moorat about their proposed international hybrid electric/human-powered submarine racing series. It brings together science, diving, engineering, and endurance sports for an exciting future race that would take…
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In this episode, our former CEO Steve Hall speaks to Leigh Storey from the NOC. Leigh is an ex-RN submariner now Associate Director of National Marine Facilities at the UK's National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Leigh is heading up a new programme about net zero carbon oceanographic research capability and talks about the challenges of devel…
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In this episode, our former CEO Steve Hall talks to David Todd, Laboratory Manager at HR Wallingford. David introduces the work of HR Wallingford including how they build massive scale models of real-world ports, harbours and estuaries to physically model water flow, turbulence, behaviour of ships and platforms for a variety of global customers. Th…
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This is part 2 of a discussion between our former CEO Steve Hall and oceanographer Don Walsh. Don back at University, sponsored by US Navy 02:24 Back in regular US Navy service 08:20 On secondment to State Department, UN law of the Sea 18:50 Hanging out with Arthur C Clarke in Sri Lanka 23:15 Antarctic work 25:35 Leaving the navy, policy work in Wa…
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This is part 1 of a discussion between our former CEO Steve Hall and oceanographer Don Walsh. How did Don end up on submarines? 16:42 Don sees the bathyscaphe for the first time (check out how he pronounces it too - I’ll use his pronunciation as the default from now on, it’s scaphe with an ‘a’ like cat) 19:20 Taking USS Rasher to 300 feet, before l…
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Episode 40, 17th December 2020 - This week former SUT CEO Steve Hall, SUT Publications & Communications Officer Emily Boddy, and SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly answer the listeners' questions on the underwater world with the expert help of SUT friends in various marine industries. How much of the seabed have we mapped? What are the records for …
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Episode 39, 10th December 2020 - This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews acclaimed author and specialist in open source intelligence 'H I Sutton' about his work documenting and illustrating via his books & Covert Shores website http://www.hisutton.com the secretive world of swimmer delivery vehicles, AUVs, military submarines and a particular niche…
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