Meet Thomas Burch – Founder Interview Series 6/6
January 26, 2023
This is the last of our Founder interview series. This month’s focus, Thomas Burch, co-founder and Head of Research & Development
January 26, 2023
This is the last of our Founder interview series. This month’s focus, Thomas Burch, co-founder and Head of Research & Development
October 6, 2022
Swiss Ocean Tech has been founded on passionate minds, as a walk through our interview series with other co-founders will confirm. This month’s focus, Suzy Chisholm, co-founder and Head of Company Communications.
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: meet Erik
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.
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.
January 25, 2022
When I asked Luke Windle, Captain of Yachts for 20 years, why he wanted to be involved in our pilot study, he was quick to respond: “I have never partaken in any kind of study before, but AnchorGuardian certainly struck a chord with me.
November 29, 2021
Anchoring has been on my mind for as long as I can remember. On the one hand it is this unknown entity when sailing and brings an element of uncertainty. On the other hand, it is an art and demands great skill. Even when you anchor well, you are never 100% sure that the anchor will hold.
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About Swiss Ocean Tech Ltd.
Swiss Ocean Tech Ltd. is a start-up incorporated in 2020 to create and market AnchorGuardian, the very first worldwide solution that monitors the position and absolute movements of a ship’s anchor. We have formed a multidisciplinary team of 8 seasoned professionals, highly experienced in product development, sensor technology, electrical engineering, development of embedded systems and algorithms, as well as in product release, export sales, supply chain management and communications.
Our mission is to keep crew and passengers safe, prevent damage to vessels, and minimize the environmental impact while anchoring. Put simply: Safe Anchoring – for sailor, ship and sea.
Home of AnchorGuardian, a cutting-edge and patented technology which offers a complete range of intelligent data throughout the anchoring procedure and immediately recognizes anchor drag, thus minimizing the risk of groundings, collisions and environmental damage.
AnchorGuardian is set to go into production in 2023.
In 2022, Swiss Ocean Tech was nominated as a finalist in the Oceans Awards, held in partnership with BOAT International and the Blue Marine Foundation, celebrating the achievements of individuals, groups and organisations from around the world dedicated to restoring the health of our oceans. In the spring of 2020, Swiss Ocean Tech won the silver award in Switzerland’s leading start-up competition with venture.ch.