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professional advisors. It is aiming for develop nature-inclusive solutions for that breaks waves but also creates an a world-? rst by creating the ? rst fully water safety. Reefy’s innovation con- underwater labyrinth where ? sh and autonomous sailboat to cross the At- sists of massive “Lego-like” blocks, other species can shelter and breed. lantic and complete the Microtransat which have been hydrodynamically de- The blocks are made of sustainable challenge. The challenge states that signed and tested in the Deltares wave concrete with a special texture on the boats must be under 2.4m and that no ? ume. By assembling these blocks un- surface. Reefy was founded by Jaime communication can be sent to the boat derwater, a stable structure is formed Ascencio and Leon Haines. during transit. No contestant has suc- ceeded since the challenge launched 16 years ago, including the US Naval

Academy. The Oshen boats will set off

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Imaging Solutions for Land and Water the objective of landing in the Carib- bean by January 2023. Unique Group is sponsoring the attempt, and it will includes partnerships with Inmarsat and CLS. The aeronautical engineers in Oshen’s team have identi? ed an ap- proach to the Microtransat challenge that takes a different angle. Rather than focusing purely on boat design, it has developed a path-planning algorithm that is unique. The algorithm is de- signed to allow the boat to travel along an optimal path using wind and current models, ostensibly avoiding conditions that could threaten the boat’s journey.

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