The Underwater Technology Podcast

Second of the AUV under-ice double bill we've recorded for the week beginning 29th June 2020, following from Pod15's interview with Bruce Butler about the 1996 mission of the ISE Theseus vehicle to lay fibre-optic cable under Canada's Arctic ice. For this episode, Pod16, SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to Peter King of the University of Tasmania about their missions at the other end of th...

This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Canadian engineer Bruce Butler about the extraordinary, and history-making, mission of the 'Theseus' autonomous underwater vehicle from ISE to lay a cable under Arctic Ice in 1996, following several years of development. See https://ise.bc.ca/product/theseus-auv/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus_(AUV) In the 1990s Canada and the USA needed...

Underwater Technology Podcast Pod14, 25th June 2020 - this week Steve Hall interviews Keith Broughton, a highly experienced underwriter who specialises in underwater systems including autonomous underwater vehicles and seabed-systems. Keith was a Royal Navy officer and mine clearance diver for a decade before entering the insurance sector, and is also an accomplished sailor and a qualified marine...

In podcast 13 SUT CEO Steve Hall talks to Steffan Lindsø of Oceaneering , who introduces the 'Freedom' resident ROV/AUV, a radical new design that can behave as an AUV in transit to the work area, or for missions such as pipeline survey, then can be operated via blue laser communications as a ROV with multitool attachments fore and aft. It also features inductive charging technology so t...

On World Oceans Day 8th June 2020 we issued a feature length podcast episode 10 featuring Steve Hall interviewing UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Chair Ariel Troisi of Argentina, and a second interview with Dr Francesca Santoro who looks after IOC's Ocean Literacy initiative from their Venice office. By popular demand we're adding the interview with Francesca as an addi...

For our 11th podcast experienced industry professional Charles Reith talks to SUT CEO Steve Hall about why it is helpful for offshore and subsea engineers to undertake lifelong continued professional development, seek accreditation from professional bodies, and never stop learning. We speak about the value of training such as SUT's well-established Subsea Awareness Course (offered by many of...

In Pod10 of the Underwater Technology Podcast SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Ariel Troiso, Chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, & Dr Francesca Santoro of the IOC office in Venice in a special extra edition for World Oceans Day (should of course be 'Ocean' without the 's' - One Planet, One Ocean!). They talk about sustained ocean observing, the f...

Podcast 9, 3rd June 2020 - this week SUT Education Committee Chair Susan John interviews Dr Garry Momber, CEO of the Maritime Archaeology Trust https://www.maritimearchaeologytrust.org which is hosted at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Gary is a member of SUT's Diving & Manned Submersible Committee and is a highly experienced scientific diver, author, and one of the c...

For Podcast episode 8, 28th May 2020, SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Mark Burnett, CEO of Seiche Water Technology Group https://www.seiche.com about how advanced, compact, long-endurance marine autonomous surface vehicles such as 'Autonaut' are able to perform a wide range of duties including environmental monitoring, in particular measuring acoustic levels at sea, even in very close prox...

Podcast 7, 22nd May 2020* - SUT Chair of Education Committee Susan John interviewing Mark Beattie-Edwards, CEO of the Nautical Archaeology Society , about the discovery, excavation to date, & future plans for the wreck of the 'London' - a rare English civil-war-era warship, that was lost in a massive explosion in the Thames Estuary off Southend in 1665. London has been described at S...

In episode 6 of the Underwater Technology Podcast, SUT Fellow and long-standing Aberdeen member Tony Laing speaks about how we will accelerate economic growth in the emerging blue economy. He looks at the role of the National Subsea Research Initiative  (NSRI, http://www.nsri.co.uk ), the maturity of emerging subsea technologies, the huge opportunities for the UK to be a major player in Blue Growt...

Uploaded for 13/5/2020 - In episode 5 of the Underwater Technology Podcast, Tony Globe talks about his lifetime in the field of tribology - the science & engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. In the subsea engineering world, that means lubrication, friction & wear of systems such as valves, connectors and other components of seabed-based systems that may have to work with...

In Podcast 4 Steve Hall interviews leading oceanographer Professor Rachel Mills, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. Professor Mills talks about diving to the mid-ocean ridges on board research submersibles such as 'Alvin' and the Russian 'Mir', a life in science, and the new opportunities made possible by remote operat...

Podcast 3 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Jim Hanlon, CEO of the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE Ocean https://coveocean.com) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jim explains that the Atlantic Canada region is a hub for innovation in underwater technology with several SUT Member companies having operations in the area. Jim talks about the role of COVE, the range of te...

In the 2nd episode of the Underwater Technology Podcast, Society for Underwater Technology CEO Steve Hall interviews Geraint West, Sonardyne's global business manager for oceanography, on the subject of determining position accurately at sea, especially for submerged systems such as autonomous underwater vehicles. Geraint has worked in the sector since the 1980s, serving with the Royal Navy a...

Welcome to the new Podcast from the Society for Underwater Technology, 'The Underwater Technology Podcast'. Pod1 features CEO Steve Hall talking to Susan John about who the SUT are, what the Society does, how it was formed and giving an idea about the areas of interest that the weekly podcast will cover. For more about SUT see www.sut.org, or to contact Steve Hall mail steve.hall@sut.org...