Pod 31, 15th October 2020 - SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Luke Alden, a Mechanical Designer working for International Submarine Engineering in British Columbia, Canada. Luke's background is in industrial design, working on projects such as the design of aircraft cockpit instrument layouts and watertight doors for lifeboats. He moved to Canada and joined ISE, a company that has been a pioneer in the development and operation of marine autonomous systems, industrial remote operated vehicles and se...
Oct 15, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Episode 30, Thursday 8th October 2020 - SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks solo with an introduction to the ' Blue Economy ' - the wide range of ocean activities such as offshore energy, fossil & renewables, deep sea minerals, offshore aquaculture, pharmaceuticals, leisure, defence and the associated legal and policy services that are needed to support it. Also about the autonomous systems and sensors that will enable it to grow and prosper. Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact Steve at s...
Oct 08, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Podcast episode 29, 1st October 2020. This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Alastair McKie, Director of Remote Operations for Europe and Africa at Fugro. Alastair explains that advances in digital communication & control technology now enables operators of offshore systems, & their associated seafloor infrastructure, to bring staff onshore, and that ultimately almost all staff who currently need to work onboard offshore platforms may be able to work from a remote operations centre on l...
Oct 01, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Podcast 28, 24th September 2020. SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Moya Crawford - who was the Society for Underwater Technology's first female Fellow - about her fascinating life in deepwater salvage & decommissioning. Moya literally 'ran away to sea' from the island of Foula age 17 with the man who became her husband, Alec Crawford, to salvage the wreck of the 'undiveable' White Star Liner 'Oeanic', and later they formed a successful salvage company Deep Tek. Moya speaks about her extraordinar...
Sep 24, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Podcast episode 27, 17th September 2020 - This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews David Strachan, who writes as Strikepod - see https://www.strikepod.com He's an author specialising in imagining future scenarios where rival autonomous systems engage in conflict in the underwater battlespace in various ways - not just combat, but by attaching themselves to seabed infrastructure, injecting payloads such as viruses into subsea digital systems, deliberately shutting down pipelines or opening valves,...
Sep 17, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Pod 26 - In an extra-length episode, SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews John Englander, author and expert advisor on sea level rise. In his long ocean-focused career that has included serving as CEO of the Cousteau Society, running a diving business, advocacy work and much more, John has gained an international reputation as a trusted source of knowledge on a range of marine issues and is an acclaimed speaker. In the interview he explains the reality of sea level rise, emphasising that even if all hu...
Sep 10, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Episode 25, Thursday 3rd September 2020. SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Professor Gwyn Griffiths, who has had a long career pushing the boundaries of new technology in ocean engineering within the oceanographic sciences community, starting as keen young scientist at school in Holy Island, North Wales, building underwater communications equipment while still a student. Gwyn Griffiths received his B.A. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Essex, U.K. in 1975, and M.Sc. degree in ...
Sep 03, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 25
August 27th 2020, in today's episode of the Underwater Technology Podcast, SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to solicitor Andreas Dracoulis, a partner at Haynes and Boone LLP helping clients resolve problems in the energy, shipping and construction sectors. The focus of discussion is the subject of consequential loss - an area of contract law where an offshore operator (corporate or individual) may find themselves in complicated legal waters when a project doesn't go according to plan, and perhaps gets ...
Aug 27, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Episode 23 of the SUT Underwater Technology Podcast features Steve Hall interviewing Lou Cooperhouse , CEO of innovative San Diego company BlueNalu who aim to be one of the first to market with sustainable, tasty, real fish meat (not a vegetarian substitute) made from cultured cells - 'Cellular Aquaculture' rather than wild-caught fish. You're making fish muscle tissue, not the head, organs, scales so it's efficient and cruelty-free. The technology is scaleable, can be applied to many species of...
Aug 20, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Episode 22, 13th August 2020 - In a longer than usual episode SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Dr Jon Copley about his career in deep-ocean exploration and research. Jon was an SUT-sponsored student back in his university days, and has gone on to become one of the world's leading experts on the deep ocean environment, currently he's the Associate Professor in Ocean Exploration & Public Engagement in the School of Ocean & Earth science at the University of Southampton , and also works as a f...
Aug 13, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Podcast 21, 6th August 2020. This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews PhD student Karen Boswarva of the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Dunstaffnage, Scotland, about her almost-finished doctorate using the SAMS Gavia Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 'Freya' to conduct environmental surveys in sea lochs, and overseas on fieldwork in Chile. Contact Karen via the SAMS website (linked above) or follow on Twitter as '@bozwoz'. Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact Steve Hall h...
Aug 06, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 21
30th July 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Professor Ed Hill, OBE, who is Executive Director of the UK's National Oceanography Centre , which is based on two sites in Southampton & Liverpool. The National Oceanography Centre is the United Kingdom’s centre of excellence for oceanographic science, with a remit to provide national capability and leadership for big ocean science. It is home to two of the UK's fleet of Royal Research Ships, RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook, and hous...
Jul 30, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 20
For podcast 19 SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Mick Cook about his long career in offshore site investigation, geotechnics and geophysics. Mick talks through how he entered the sector in the 1980s, how the technology and techniques have evolved, and how particular incidents & individuals influenced and shaped how he learned to interpret and add value to the data that constantly-improving instrumentation, software and sensors provided him. He speaks about the work of the SUT Offshore Site Inves...
Jul 23, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 19
SUT Underwater Technology Podcast episode 18, 16th July 2020 - Steve Hall interviews Alexander Fuglesang of FASTsubsea & FSubsea AS, Norway, about subsea pumping systems - essential tools for offshore industry, be it traditional oil and gas, future carbon capture & storage, deep sea mining and even aquaculture - fish farms turn out to also be major users of subsea pump systems. Many human activities below sea level would quite literally be impossible without effective, reliable pumping s...
Jul 16, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Judith Patten MBE is one of those people who isn't a marine engineer or scientist but has nonetheless Made Things Happen for our broad offshore community for years. She's been there in the background, organising trade shows and events, facilitating meetings between companies, researchers and policy makers, lately in particular a champion of the offshore renewables sector via the show All-Energy , which she created. SUT CEO Steve Hall spends an enjoyable half an hour talking to Judith about her c...
Jul 09, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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 the world - underneath the ice of Antarctica using an 'Explorer' AUV also from ISE . You can follow Peter on Twitter ...
Jul 02, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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 to find a way to attach fibre optic cable to monitoring equipment located under the sea ice of the Canadian Ar...
Jun 30, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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 biologist. Keith speaks about underwriting, the evolution of marine insurance legislation and the va...
Jun 24, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 that it can be 'refuelled' from a base station on the seabed. Think of it as a resident ROV that can operate as...
Jun 18, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 additional episode 'Podcast 12' for listeners who wanted a stand-alone interview on Ocean Literacy as part of the ...
Jun 15, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 our Branches), and in particular about the specialist training that is available from providers like his ...
Jun 12, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 forthcoming UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, ocean literacy, and the role of industry and learned ...
Jun 08, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 contributors to our book for children ' Can a Lobster be an Archaeologist? ' Garry talks about the explora...
Jun 03, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 proximity to offshore installations. The are marine biology and defence applications for such systems, which can e...
May 28, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 Southend's very own 'Mary Rose', and Mark discusses the possibilities of how she could be raised as a future ed...
May 22, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 Growth for the coming decade. Tony looks at energy transition, marine autonomous systems, floating wind, r...
May 20, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 minimal or zero maintenance for many years. Tony talks about the choice of lubricating fluids depen...
May 13, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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 operated vehicles, new sensors and autonomous systems. She suggests that gender equality is well underway in ocean science, bu...
May 06, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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 technology activities taking place in Canada, the rising profile of offshore renewables, the strong un...
May 01, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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 as a hydrographic surveyor, then with Fugro, and as head of National Marine Facilities at the National Oce...
Apr 24, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
