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Editorial “Go to Sea” elcome to the 16th Annual MTR100, our annual look at 100 subsea industry leaders, innovators

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Special thanks this year to Rick Spinrad, NOAA Administrator and the NOAA staff for [email protected] working with us to put together an insightful look at how this Federal agency is helping to drive subsea technology across the spectrum, culminating in our one-on-one with Spinrad,

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Gregory R. Trauthwein our #1 Ocean In? uencer for 2021. Rick Spinrad certainly needs no introduction to this [email protected] audience, with a distinguished career spanning four decades. I caught up with Rick very recently … to be accurate via our Marine Technology TV web channel the day before this

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Justin Manley, U.S. edition went to press … for his insights on priorities for NOAA, and also for his take on

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Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen the top technologies and issues that will dominate our headlines and your workspace in the

Tom Mulligan, Ireland years to come. Fast evolving uncrewed systems in the air, on the water and under the wa- ter; the evolution of swarm vessel technology; the maturation of the ‘Blue Economy’ here

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Irina Vasilets [email protected] covered in our interview starting on page 36. While the bulk of our coverage here and daily on MarineTechnologyNews.com is focused on the tech and the autonomy, one of the big-

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Nicole Ventimiglia gest takeaways for me from the Spinrad interview was his advice to young people consid- [email protected] ering a career in this industry: “The ? rst bit of advice I have is go to sea. I worked for an admiral once who said, ‘Let’s make sure we don’t all turn into cubicle scientists or cubicle

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