Ocean Aero
Builds autonomous subsea vehicles and long-endurance marine platforms for persistent ocean observation and data collection.
Ocean Aero designs, builds, and operates autonomous ocean vehicles and their communication platform for collecting data above and below the ocean surface. It supports defense, research, and energy clients with novel hardware and software that make ocean missions more efficient, affordable, and effective. Its core platform is an environmentally powered autonomous underwater and surface vehicle that can sail and submerge autonomously, relay data from anywhere at any time, and operate without on-board or nearby crews. The vehicle runs on wind and solar energy, which avoids fuel use altogether, and it is fully autonomous. That combination answers the high cost, the danger, and the environmental impact of ocean exploration and data collection. The business is broader than a single vehicle sale. Ocean Aero offers ready-to-deploy packages and custom payloads, and its pre-packaged payloads cover most applications in the defense, research, and offshore energy sectors. The system is built to support rapid non-recurring engineering efforts for more specialised use cases, so a customer with an unusual requirement can have it accommodated. Between the ready-to-deploy packages, the pre-packaged payloads and the custom payload route, most defense, research and offshore energy work can be covered off the shelf, with the engineering path held in reserve for the rest. In practice that means the company serves organisations needing ocean monitoring, surveillance, reconnaissance, and other data-gathering missions across a range of industries. The platform is versatile enough to handle a variety of missions, and it can collect and transmit information both above and below the surface. A distinctive part of the model is the combination of autonomous operation, dual surface-and-subsurface capability, and environmentally powered endurance. The Triton works as a tool for missions that benefit from persistent presence and reduced operational risk, and the company offers communications support as part of the overall system rather than leaving the customer to solve the data link separately.