The Underwater Technology Podcast

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 as technology companies, ocean science organisations, technology users and SUT special interest groups. We're also going to learn about some interesting and unusual subsea facts from people who have built a career in the subsea industry. We will have a return of the Q&A episode so send your questions in about anything to do with the underwater world and we will do our best to answer them!

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Podcast music composed by Emily Boddy
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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 the following link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgOXA5smmFs

https://subseacraft.com/

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Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

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Thanks to Emily Boddy for the podcast artwork and for composing the theme music. 

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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-ecosystem-service-benefits-while-managing-site-risks-neba-applied-to-offshore-decommissioning/

Contact [email protected] or visit https://montrose-env.com/environmental-planning-specialists/

Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

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Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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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.

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Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode contact [email protected]

Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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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 our first interview with HR Wallingford here, where Laboratory Manager David Todd talks about how they solve the World's most complex water challenges.

Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode contact [email protected]

Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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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.

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Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode contact [email protected]

Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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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/

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Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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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 systems but also looks at how the research ship fleet can be re-fitted with novel propulsion technology, and eventually be replaced by new ships that are as close to net zero carbon as is technically possible.

www.noc.ac.uk/projects

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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
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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 business! 55:00
• Expedition cruise ships 57:04
• Working with James Cameron and Victor Vescovo 01:04:41
• Don Walsh award, SUT/MTS links 01:15:10

This episode is broadcast in association with the Marine Technology Society (MTS). mtsociety.org

Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, contact us via [email protected]

For more information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast episode contact [email protected]

Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork and composing and performing the theme music. 

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