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EYE ON THE NEW

NAMES & START UPS

Innovation is the life-blood of any industry, particularly the subsea business where ideas, products and organizations regularly emerge from academia and as spin-offs from existing companies. Here are ? ve worth a watch in 2023 and beyond.

factures a product line of amphibious crawlers to operate in

BAYONET OCEAN VEHICLES

Technically, Bayonet Ocean Vehicles is not a “start up,” areas dif? cult for other vehicles to operate in, speci? cally on created in 2022 through the acquisition of IP and inventory the beach and in the surf zone environment. They cover com- mercial and military applications, including hydrographic, of C-2 Innovations Inc. along with its crawling robots prod- uct line by marine robotics technology specialist, Greensea environmental and other surveys, coastal dredging support,

Systems Inc (Greensea). But it is a new name with the heft and littoral warfare such as mine detection and clearance. of Greensea behind it now. Bayonet Ocean Vehicles was The Bayonet Ocean Vehicles team is led by Greensea’s CEO created to help bridge the gap between open water and the and Founder, Ben Kinnaman and the executive team, and in- cludes highly experienced industry veterans with years’ of beach with a series of “AUGVs” or Autonomous Underwa- ter Ground Vehicles that can transition from the ocean in experience in manufacturing and ocean robotics.

The product line of amphibious crawling robots includes through the surf zone and onto the beach.The vehicles are at home in estuaries, marshes, and amongst the dunes and can three Bayonet vehicles; the Bayonet 150, Bayonet 250 and be used in a variety of military (EOD and reconnaissance) Bayonet 350. These are built on OPENSEA, Greensea’s open architecture platform designed to provide precision naviga- and commercial applications (cable surveys, erosion inspec- tion, payload integration, autonomy and over-the-horizon tion, wind energy inspection). Built to be very adaptable au- tonomous platforms with extensive payload support, capable command and control. Combined with robust hardware, they of performing numerous missions and tasks where a ROV, cover a wide range of payloads and applications.

AUV or USV cannot. The company was created to further

OSHEN develop, manufacture and distribute a line of amphibious

Oshen is a young enterprise created by a team of Imperial crawling robots based on the original concept of C-2 Innova-

College London graduates, and supported by a number of tions Inc. Bayonet Ocean Vehicles now designs and manu-

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