The Underwater Technology Podcast

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.proserv.com , learn more about ECG™ here , or contact...

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.oceandecade.org and find out more about IMarEST here www.ima...

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 work they do in their respective professional ro...

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 the SUT and what this means to the region. Find out...

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 captured survey data to global clients. Find out...

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 out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contac...

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 , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Fac...

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 at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow...

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 https://ore.catapult.org.uk/ Find out more about S...

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.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn ,...

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.org/ Listen to Oliver's podcast - for people w...

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 the International OSIG conference. Find out mo...

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 about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us vi...

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@ec-og.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org...

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. Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us...

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 Season 1 now, all episodes available on Buzzsp...

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 development cycle and how students...

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-minute video on NEBA-CA as applied to offshore decommi...

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 West Chapter of our South of England Branch. Contact...

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, Richard talks about how HR Wallingford constructs p...

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. contact uxo@fugro.com Find out more about SUT at www...

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 place in stages at spectacular coastal locati...

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 developing new ways of undertaking research at &am...

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. This is the first of three HR Wallingford interview...

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 Washington 28:50 Academia then starting a business...