by Martha Blanchfield | Aug 26, 2025 | industry vertical, ocean, wind energy
Almost ten years ago, a start-up company called Trident Winds shook up the West Coast by filing an unsolicited application to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for an Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) renewable energy lease in federal waters offshore...
by Martha Blanchfield | Aug 12, 2025 | education, ocean, robotics, ROV
ROV TOUR is a tiny educational tech company with an aim to bring underwater robotics education to schools. If young students can get direct access to learning about, and interacting with, the underwater environment, it will help them develop empathy for the ocean and...
by Martha Blanchfield | Sep 6, 2024 | ocean, plastic
The Ocean Cleanup states that it can make the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) go away within five years to the tune of $4 billion. During a brief stop-over in San Francisco late last week, founder and CEO Boyan Slat plus key members of the team met with press,...
by Martha Blanchfield | Jul 13, 2024 | ocean, plastic
Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI) is able to achieve a high rate of ROI for ocean plastic removal per expedition. In 2020, a small crew extracted 340,000 pounds (170 tons) of plastic from the Pacific. Its port of departure from Hawai’i significantly reduces distance to...