Weekly short podcast from the Society for Underwater Technology featuring news & an interview with an expert on underwater technology, engineering, science, history & policy from across the international subsea world. For more about SUT visit www.sut.org, email info@sut.org SUT is a Learned Society for underwater technology, engineering & science established 1966. We're a Charity / Not for Profit in most of the countries where we operate. Local branches in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Malaysia, Middle East, Norway, Singapore, UK, USA, West Africa. #technology #subsea #ocean #offshore #science #engineering #oceanliteracy #oceandecade #AUV #robots #exploration #renewables #energy #aquaculture #policy #careers #STEM
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In this episode we talk with Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director at Orbital Marine Power Ltd. Oliver talks about the development of their O2 tidal turbine, the world's most powerful tidal turbine, and how this can help in the path towards the goal of clean energy. Find out more at orbitalmarine.com or find them on YouTube , LinkedIn and Facebook . Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , and Instagram Send in your questions a...
In this episode, we talk with Tricia Hill, Chair and President of the SUT US branch. Tricia talks about her background in the subsea industry, her involvement in the SUT, and what work the SUT US branch is doing to promote the subsea industry. Find out more about the SUT US branch at https://sut-us.org/ Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , and Instagram Send in your questions about the underwater world for our subsea ex...
This week we speak with Andrew Connelly, our Underwater Technology Podcast host! Andrew is an active SUT Member serving on SUT Council and the SUT Aberdeen branch, but also has a day job working as the Product Line Manager at Imenco, providing smart solutions to the ocean industries. Find out more about Imenco at imenco.no Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , and Instagram Send in your questions about the underwater wor...
In this episode, we talk with Teo van der Kammen from ORE Catapult. Teo talks about his background in tidal energy developments and the work that ORE Catapult is doing with the TIGER project to promote the development of tidal energy technology. Find out more about the TIGER Project at https://interregtiger.com/ Find out more about ORE Catapult at https://ore.catapult.org.uk/ Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , and Ins...
In this episode, we talk with Fraser Milne, Engineering and Projects Director at Balmoral. Fraser talks about the Balmoral product line past, present, and future, and how they are adapting to keep up with changing markets in the offshore world. Find out more at www.balmoraloffshore.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , and Instagram Send in your questions about the underwater world for our subsea experts to answer in...
In this episode, we talk with Oliver Steeds from Nekton. Oliver talks about what Nekton is doing to drive creation of ocean conservation areas, ensuring that local authorities are involved in conservation and research initiatives and how technology can play a part in the protection of the ocean. Find out more about Nekton at https://nektonmission.org/ Listen to Oliver's podcast - for people who love the sea - www.catchourdrift.org Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut....
In this episode, we talk with Toby Powell, SUT Fellow and Engineering Manager for Geotechnics, Pre-Commissioning & Technical Safety with Subsea 7. Toby talks about what is involved with a role in geotechnics and site investigation and how energy transition is affecting this. He also talks about his involvement with the SUT, the OSIG committee, and the International OSIG conference. Find out more about Subsea 7 at www.subsea7.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@su...
In this episode, we talk with Steve Sasanow, the founding editor of Subsea Engineering News and author of the Subsea Watcher blog. Steve talks about how Subsea Engineering News was founded and what subsea engineering and technology was like in the 1980's. Read subsea news articles on Steve's Subsea Watcher blog here - www.keltd.co.uk Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn and Instagram Send in your questions about the under...
In this episode we talk with Paul Slorach, Business Development Director at EC-OG, a subsea technology solutions provider based in Aberdeen, UK. We talk about EC-OG’s technology developments in the arena of subsea power including their Halo battery technology and how this can make a difference to offshore operations. https://ec-og.com/ paul.slorach@ec-og.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode con...
Welcome to season 2 of the Underwater Technology Podcast! To kick us off, Andrew speaks to the SUT’s new CEO, Dr. Cheryl Burgess. We find out about her background in the subsea industry, her love for the underwater world, her future plans for the SUT, and how she thinks we can inspire the next generation to get excited about careers in the ocean. Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode contact info@su...
Join us for Season 2 of the Underwater Technology Podcast on 1st April 2021. So far we’ve had 50 episodes covering a huge range of topics, such as Ocean Exploration, the Blue Economy, and numerous Subsea Innovations. We've put a small handful of highlights in this trailer; there were so many great clips we would have loved to include! Catch up on Season 1 now, all episodes available on Buzzsprout or your favorite podcast provider. In season 2 we’ll be interviewing a wide variety of experts such ...
In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Anna Lambert – Head of Programme Delivery at SubSea Craft based in Havant UK. Anna talks about SubSea Craft's background and their current development of 'VICTA', a specialist submersible craft that delivers divers discreetly. She focuses on the building blocks of such a project's development cycle and how students and younger people can be motivated to get involved in engineering. A 90 second video clip on VICTA can be accessed via...
This week SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks with Joe Nicolette from Montrose/EPS in Georgia, USA about how Net Environmental Benefit Analysis based Comparative Assessment (NEBA-CA) can be applied to offshore and subsea decommissioning projects, potentially resulting in long-term benefits to ecological, social, and economic values. A 13-minute video on NEBA-CA as applied to offshore decommissioning can be accessed via the following link: https://montrose-env.com/content/maximizing-ecosyst...
This week SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks to Dr Ed Steele from the UK Met Office in Exeter about the range of ocean and weather data products that the Met Office is able to provide to offshore industry users including ship operators, offshore hydrocarbons platforms, helicopter ops, and marine renewables. Ed is also active in the South West Chapter of our South of England Branch. Contact marine@metoffice.gov.uk Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org For mor...
Professor Richard Whitehouse is a long-serving SUT member who has been involved with our special interest groups on Environmental Forces & Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics. His specialist area is understanding sediment dynamics around seabed structures such as wind farm monopiles. In this interview, with our former CEO, Steve Hall, Richard talks about how HR Wallingford constructs physical scale models of these sort of structures, to test using specialist flume tanks. Listen to ou...
In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Marco Gilissen – Global UXO Marine Risk Mitigation Director and Offshore Wind Site Appraisal and Design Array Solution Owner at Fugro. Marco talks about UXO risk mitigation and the processes involved to deal with UXO issues that are experienced by different markets around the globe. contact uxo@fugro.com Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact us via info@sut.org For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast ep...
In this interview, our former CEO Steve Hall speaks to Professor William Megill, Matt Silver-Vallance, Dr Björn Backeberg & Nick Cunningham-Moorat about their proposed international hybrid electric/human-powered submarine racing series. It brings together science, diving, engineering, and endurance sports for an exciting future race that would take place in stages at spectacular coastal locations around the world. http://subracingseries.com/ Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org , contact u...
In this episode, our former CEO Steve Hall speaks to Leigh Storey from the NOC. Leigh is an ex-RN submariner now Associate Director of National Marine Facilities at the UK's National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Leigh is heading up a new programme about net zero carbon oceanographic research capability and talks about the challenges of developing new ways of undertaking research at & under the sea with the lowest possible carbon footprint. This includes new sensors and autonomous syst...
In this episode, our former CEO Steve Hall talks to David Todd, Laboratory Manager at HR Wallingford. David introduces the work of HR Wallingford including how they build massive scale models of real-world ports, harbours and estuaries to physically model water flow, turbulence, behaviour of ships and platforms for a variety of global customers. This is the first of three HR Wallingford interviews which will be aired over the coming weeks. www.hrwallingford.com info@hrwallingford.com Find out mo...
This is part 2 of a discussion between our former CEO Steve Hall and oceanographer Don Walsh. Don back at University, sponsored by US Navy 02:24 Back in regular US Navy service 08:20 On secondment to State Department, UN law of the Sea 18:50 Hanging out with Arthur C Clarke in Sri Lanka 23:15 Antarctic work 25:35 Leaving the navy, policy work in Washington 28:50 Academia then starting a business in the old Soviet Union 41:45 Russian partners try to build a brothel alongside the dive shop busines...
In this first part of an interview, Captain Don Walsh shares his extraordinary journey from a childhood fascination with ships to becoming one of the first humans to reach the Challenger Deep in the bathyscaphe Trieste. He discusses the motivations behind his diverse naval career, including his shift from aviation to submarines, the technical challenges of deep-sea exploration in its infancy, and the political context surrounding the historic dive. Walsh also details his subsequent return to conventional submarine duty during the Vietnam War and his decision to pursue a postgraduate degree in oceanography, revealing a drive for continuous learning and innovation.
Episode 40, 17th December 2020 - This week former SUT CEO Steve Hall , SUT Publications & Communications Officer Emily Boddy , and SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly answer the listeners' questions on the underwater world with the expert help of SUT friends in various marine industries. How much of the seabed have we mapped? What are the records for saturation diving, and is it really worth the risk? What is the deepest depth a human-occupied submersible can reach? How advanced is current un...
Episode 39, 10th December 2020 - This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews acclaimed author and specialist in open source intelligence 'H I Sutton' about his work documenting and illustrating via his books & Covert Shores website http://www.hisutton.com the secretive world of swimmer delivery vehicles, AUVs, military submarines and a particular niche as THE specialist author on the shadowy world of narcosubs, the semi- or fully-submersible craft used by drug and arms smugglers. H is highly reg...
Podcast episode 38, 3rd December 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Professor Ralph Rayner, who has served the global ocean science and technology community in many capacities since the late 1970s. Ralph's unusually broad career has included periods in research, industry, policy, and supporting international sustained ocean observing at governmental level on both sides of the Atlantic. Initially fascinated with the technology of diving and training as a scuba diver as a student, Ralp...
Podcast episode 37a, 27th November 2020 - in a change to the advertised schedule, this week we're using an edited audio version of the webinar that Nick Swift, chair of the Society for Underwater Technology's Defence Special Interest Group, gave on 16th November 2020. You can view the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/mpRxaoFT1QM Nick talks about the role of the SIG, the projects that it is engaged in such as producing a position paper on the legal and policy aspects of armed autonomo...
Podcast 36, 19th November 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to member Vahid Walker, founder & CEO of Walker Subsea engineering about the innovative subsea engineering sector in North East England, where an industry that was once dominated by heavy engineering such as shipbuilding has adapted to the requirements of technology-driven innovation, support for emerging industries, and where innovation in the region's automotive sector is able to feed technology into subsea systems too. S...
Podcast Episode 35, 11th November 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to Adrian Phillips, Chair of SUT Middle East Branch about his career, the founding of SUT's first Branch in the Middle East, and the rapid growth in the region for companies engaged in subsea engineering, technology and services. Adrian highlights the importance of ADIPEC as the key trade show and networking opportunity in UAE and the advances being seen in encouraging local young people to enter the sector too. There's...
Podcast episode 34, 5th November 2020 - SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews David Ince of Reed Exhibitions, the company behind Oceanology International , Offshore Europe and All-Energy . David speaks about the role that exhibitions and conferences play in supporting the underwater technology community through knowledge sharing, awareness building, an opportunity to network and encourage the next generation too. It's been a tough year for the sector thanks to COVID, and David talks about the ways that ...
Podcast episode 33, 29th October 2020 - SUT CEO Steve Hall interview Chris Gilson, General Manager of Canada's 2G Robotics (now part of the Sonardyne Group) about the company's role in bringing dynamic laser scanning to the subsea sector, which has enabled users to visualise underwater structures in great detail, and can even be used effectively for mine field scanning. The talk includes details of 2G Robotics development of technologies that enable ROVs and AUVs to capture high resolution image...
Podcast 32, 22nd October 2020. This week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Peter Bromley, who has recently been appointed as the new Engineering Director of Seiche Water Technology Group. He talks about their line of products, including the Autonaut autonomous surface vehicle, how underwater sound measurements are used across industry, and about the challenges of making sustained ocean observations at an affordable cost. Find more more about Seiche at https://www.seiche.com/ , Ashridge at http://www...
