May 27, 2022
Swiss Ocean Tech has been founded on curious minds, as a walk through our interview series with other co-founders will confirm. This month’s focus, Erik Asplund, co-founder and hydroacoustics and signal processing specialist, is no different. There is seldom a meeting where Erik does not utter these four words, “I have a question”.
May 25, 2022
Over the past 2 years, we have received numerous questions from you. Here we are addressing the most prevalent ones. Keep them coming, we are happy to hear what is on your mind.
April 11, 2022
It is always something special to be considered for an award but there are quite simply some awards which stand out more than others. This is one of those cases.
March 25, 2022
The moon landing inspired generations including one 10-year-old boy, our focus of today, Jörg Wagner. Now a Professor at the University of Stuttgart, he is a co-founder of Swiss Ocean Tech and a renowned specialist for inertial navigation.
March 23, 2022
Short answer: You pull together as a team and keep the ship moving forward. The long answer is considerably more complicated but none-the-less powerful as an invaluable lesson.
March 3, 2022
First and foremost, today we turn officially two. I say officially because Swiss Ocean Tech has been in the hearts and minds of our team for many years and has been privately owned since 2013.
January 28, 2022
“Creative order”, that is where he feels most at home. Stephan Nigg, our Senior Hardware Engineer and Co-Founder, thrives in an environment that for others would seem disorganized but for him, everything has its place.
November 9, 2021
Anchoring, like sailing, goes back millennia, some records say as early as 3000-1500 BCE. Subsequently, where there is an anchor, there will also be anchor dragging and a dragging anchor can wreak havoc not only on underwater pipelines and cables but they also rip up fragile marine ecosystems in their path, damage seabeds and destroy aquatic wildlife.
October 14, 2021
It is not very often that an oil spill is attributed to a dragging anchor. Thank goodness. But when it does occur, the fallout is enormous – for the environment, for the local economy and for the fish and wildlife living in the contaminated area.
July 28, 2021
There is not always a correlation made between ocean health and anchor dragging – but there should be. Whether you sail your own boat, spend your holidays on a floating hotel or have your latest gadget shipped from another continent, it could very well be indirectly influencing the state of the seas.