Fantastic evening at the UK Parliament listening to Mike Kane, the UK Shipping Minister discussing the critical importance of the maritime sector to the economy. A huge thanks to Maritime UK Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) The Workboat Association and Nautilus International for the invite. Great to catch up with Sheldon Ryan Chris Smith Kevin Forshaw and colleagues from across the South West maritime clusters. #oceantech #cleantech #maritimetechnology #defencetech
ACUA Ocean
Maritime Transportation
Plymouth, Select an option… 5,097 followers
Autonomous solutions for monitoring and protection
About us
ACUA Ocean designs and develops uncrewed surface vessels (USV) for ocean monitoring and data collection, providing a stable open ocean platform-as-a-service with the space, weight and power to deploy sensor and system payloads.
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https://www.ocean.tech/
External link for ACUA Ocean
- Industry
- Maritime Transportation
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Plymouth, Select an option…
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- USV, Offshore Operation, Zero Carbon Emission Vessels, and Offshore Survey
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Turnchapel Wharf, Barton Road,
Plymouth, Select an option… PL9 9RQ, GB
Employees at ACUA Ocean
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Nigel Mashembo
Unmanned surface vessels
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Puneet Chhabra, PhD
Environmental monitoring and GHG reduction at Scale (LiDARs) 🌍| Founder, Board member & CTO | Top 100 Asian in UK Tech 2019 | Award Winning…
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Alex Liddle
Naval Architect at AcuaOcean
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Tom Nicholls
Naval Architect / Project Engineer at Acua Ocean
Updates
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It was a pleasure to welcome Lola Fadina, Director of Maritime at Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom to ACUA Ocean's new HQ at Turnchapel Wharf last week. Lola and her team have been tireless supporters of maritime decarbonisation and innovation through UK SHORE and the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition delivered by Innovate UK. ACUA Ocean Co-Founder Mike Tinmouth and Head of Marine Operations John Hunnibell spoke to the DfT team about the USV Pioneer and her novel SWATH vessel design, MASS regulation, the benefits and challenges of hydrogen technology and the importance of the CMDC funding on supporting the wider UK maritime supply chain. We look forward to welcoming Lola and her DfT colleagues back to Plymouth in a few months when USV Pioneer undergoes sea trials and demonstrations. #cleanmaritime #maritimetechnology #oceantech #defencetech #cleantech Net Zero Technology Centre Blue Action Britbots Sixth Wave Ventures
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🏢 ACUA Ocean unveil new Turnchapel Wharf HQ 🎯 UK-based uncrewed surface vessel developer ACUA Ocean has unveiled its new HQ at Turnchapel Wharf in Plymouth. After completing systems development in Lowestoft and hull build at Aluminium Marine Consultants (AMC) on the Isle of Wight, ACUA Ocean’s USV Pioneer will be based in Plymouth and commence harbour trials in October 2024. Following the completion of harbour and sea trials, the Pioneer will conduct demonstrations in Q1 2025 as part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition funded by the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom and delivered by Innovate UK. Concurrent with Pioneer’s development, ACUA Ocean is working with a variety of payload and launch and recovery manufacturers, in keeping with its strategy to integrate high-complexity payloads for demonstration in the late summer of 2025. ACUA Ocean also working with its host Turnchapel Wharf on its future fuels and technology strategy under grant funding from the South West Marine and Maritime Launchpad. Previously a UK Ministry of Defence site, Turnchapel Wharf has undergone a major transformation into a modern, thriving space providing waterfront offices, workshops and warehouses for a wide range of marine and particularly maritime autonomy companies. It forms part of the largest maritime cluster in the UK, with almost 4,000 businesses supporting 25,000 jobs and adding £2.54bn GVA per year to the South Coast economy. The adjacent Plymouth Smart Sound allows operators to trial and validate their technologies in 1000km2 of authourised and de-conflicted water space, with direct access to the English Channel and Western Approaches. 👨💼 The new ACUA Ocean HQ will be led by John Hunnibell and Nigel Mashembo, both of whom have extensive experience in running marine astronomy test sites. They’re joined by a growing team of naval architects and engineers as the ACUA Ocean team expands, having created a dozen new jobs in Plymouth this year. 📃📷 Source: ACUA Ocean #acuaocean #turnchapelwharf #plymouth #innovateuk #usv #mass #hydrogen #maritimeautonomy #massworldnews
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Great to be featured in the Sifted Climate Intelligence Report 2024 as one of the 51 Global Climate Startups to watch. Accelerating the new financial models that will be required to deliver meaningful climate solutions will require more than just basic data, it will require rich, holistic ocean data sets to unlock our understanding of ocean health. Our USV Pioneer will provide the platform-as-a-service for the deployment of the advanced sensor and system payloads, the comms systems and the capability to operate in open ocean sea states. https://lnkd.in/eJpKeCrb #oceantech #climatetech #cleantech #maritimetechnology #defrabiodiversity Blue Action Katapult Ocean Olivia Brooks Rupert Hayward Jamie Rowles Jeff Stoike Ross Brooks Ingrid H. Maurstad Jonas Skattum Svegaarden
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An excellent research paper from our colleagues at the University of Southampton exploring a quantitative comparison of methanol, ammonia and hydrogen as future marine fuels. Key findings include: • Hydrogen through fuel cells requires the least amount of renewable energy investment. • Methanol and ammonia combustion scenarios yield a carbon footprint and other air emissions. The University of Southampton have partnered with ACUA Ocean on our hybrid hydrogen-powered USV Pioneer under the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Rounds 1-3 funded by Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom. https://lnkd.in/e5B7f9zX #oceantech #cleantech #hydrogentechnology Stephen Turnock Madadh MacLaine Steven Lua S. Aykut Korkmaz Ben Nicholson Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association (ZESTAs)
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We're #hiring a new Motion Graphic Designer - Paid Internship in Plymouth, England. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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Kort Propulsion longterm relationship with RW Fernstrum supplying within 3 weeks Keelcoolers for ACUA Ocean in the UK, who are building a 13.5m H-USV platform. ACUA as-service provides the space, weight and power to deploy modular sensor and system payloads of up to 4 tonnes from a 20ft ISO container in the moonpool. ACUA stable ocean-going autonomous platform enables safe deployments in up to 3m significant wave heights. This enables increased operational availability for the market. We look forward to great relationship with all companies. #RWfernstrum #keelcoolers #AcuaOcean #Partnership #Innovation #BusinessNews #h2now #fuelcell #happycustomers #propulsionpackage #uk #engineering #MarineTechnology #maritimenews #shippingnews #UKmaritime #greentechnews #weeklynewsletter #aquaculture #strategy #culture #business #networking
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We're #hiring a new Mechanical Engineer in Plymouth, England. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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Great to see Robosys Automation mentioned again on page 61 of Uncrewed Systems Technology edition 56 talking about our #Autopilot for #USVs here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGbuwrF3 In addition to our advanced #Autonomous #Navigation provided by our #VOYAGER #AI software our #Autopilot is now also available in both hardware and software form to work with both analogue and digital steering systems providing an end to end Robosys Automation solution for #USVs. Great to see our work with ACUA Ocean and RAD Propulsion gets a mention too! #USV #Uncrewed #Maritime #Autonomy #autonomousnavigation #AutonomousShipping Simon Moss Peter Donaldson
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Join ACUA Ocean CEO Neil Tinmouth at the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Conference where he will be speaking about “Driving factors in Offshore Renewables and Defence.” #oceantech #defencetech #cleantech
We are delighted to unveil the agenda for Session 1 of the SMI Conference 2024. Curated by the National Shipbuilding Office, this session focuses on the elements crucial to delivering on the refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy and the steps taken by the Government to achieve this. Significant aspects of the session include a focus on Government procurement opportunities and an overview of the Government’s supply chain mapping activities. We are very glad to be working with the National Shipbuilding Office once again this year at our conference and are certain this session will deliver incredibly useful insights for delegates. Tickets can be purchased for the event at https://lnkd.in/esjcaKAW Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) #SMIConference2024 #maritimeevent #shipbuilding #defenceprocurement