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Technology at Sea exists for one reason: real environments expose real weaknesses — and real potential.
Controlled simulations, tank testing, and dockside trials are essential. But they cannot replicate wind, waves, current, salinity, biofouling, cold, heat, motion, or time.
Technologies and scientific systems designed for marine, coastal, riverine, or high-energy environments must be tested where those forces are unavoidable.
We offer deliberate, structured access to those conditions — safely, ethically, and with purpose.
University entrepreneurship and innovation centres.
Student engineering and design teams.
Faculty-led research groups testing deployable technologies or field methods.
Startups emerging from academic environments.
Technology transfer offices seeking field validation.
NGOs and research organisations testing environmental or rapid-response systems
At-Sea Deployment & Testing
Environmental Stress Testing
At-Sea Deployment & Testing
Deploy technologies, sampling systems, or research tools in real operational conditions — not staged demonstrations.
Failure Analysis
Environmental Stress Testing
At-Sea Deployment & Testing
When systems fail, we help document how and why. Failure is data.
Environmental Stress Testing
Environmental Stress Testing
Environmental Stress Testing
Test across Arctic, tropical, estuarine, offshore, and high-energy marine environments.
Integration & Support
Professional Documentation
Professional Documentation
Custom mounting, power integration, deployment planning, recovery, and onboard support.
Professional Documentation
Professional Documentation
Professional Documentation
High-quality visual and written records suitable for grants, validation reports, publications, and academic review.
TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS THAT BELONG HERE
TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS THAT BELONG HERE
TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS THAT BELONG HERE
This programme supports technologies and scientific systems that benefit from exposure to reality, including:
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- Drones and sensor arrays
- Environmental monitoring platforms
- eDNA, eRNA, and molecular sampling systems
- Renewable energy devices
- Water quality and pollution detection tools
- Monitoring buoys
- Rapid-response tools
- Indigenous-led and community-developed research technologies.
If it needs saltwater, current, motion, mud, cold, or chaos — it belongs here.
HOW THE PROGRAMME WORKS
TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS THAT BELONG HERE
TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS THAT BELONG HERE
1. Project Proposal
Submitted by the university, innovation centre, or programme lead.
2. Collaborative Planning
Objectives, timelines, regions, ethics, and technical needs defined together.
3. Field Deployment
Testing conducted aboard a working research vessel with expedition support.
4. Documentation & Review
Results, failures, and lessons captured clearly and responsibly.
Engagements are fee-based, supporting vessel operations, crew time, and logistics. Intellectual property remains with the originating institution or team.
Universities work with Technology at Sea because it:
- Accelerates learning beyond the classroom
- Provides meaningful experiential education
- Strengthens grant and funding applications
- Reduces technical and operational risk
- Aligns innovation with environmental responsibility
Most importantly, it teaches students and researchers that engineering and science don’t end at the lab door.