About Us
Kevin Hardy with Deep Ocean Vehicle (DOV) PATTY, July 2011, Guam.
Global Ocean Design LLC was founded in July 2011, and built on more than 40 years in ocean instrument and deep ocean free vehicle design. Our company creed is “Reduced to Practice”.
Our products have successfully made the round trip to the deepest ocean depths possible, endured an annual cycle below the Arctic ice pack, been deployed and recovered from all sizes and kinds of surface support craft, have years of cumulative deployment time, and returned data and samples to the surface on acoustic command or by timer.
Our unique suite of components and systems, unavailable in the general marketplace, plus rich field experience, can get you to the bottom fast. Then back again.
We partner with the best companies in the marine industry, those who share our commitment to solving the customer’s problem in a cost-effective, robust and timely manner.
We work with research institutions, government agencies, and commercial ocean enterprises. Our customers include the U.S. Navy/SPAWAR, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, Dalhousie University, James Cameron’s Earthship LLC, SAIC, and many of the world’s finest oceanographic institutions.
Among Global Ocean Design’s principals is ocean engineer Kevin Hardy, who retired from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD in June 2011 after 40 years of service. He is widely published in books, journals, the web, and trade magazines. His unmanned landers reached the absolute deepest point in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in March/April 2012. He is also known for his many contributions to educational outreach through the Marine Technology Society, including curriculum for K-8, creating high school and undergraduate design challenges, and professional level tutorials now common at MTS and IEEE conferences.
Our products have successfully made the round trip to the deepest ocean depths possible, endured an annual cycle below the Arctic ice pack, been deployed and recovered from all sizes and kinds of surface support craft, have years of cumulative deployment time, and returned data and samples to the surface on acoustic command or by timer.
Our unique suite of components and systems, unavailable in the general marketplace, plus rich field experience, can get you to the bottom fast. Then back again.
We partner with the best companies in the marine industry, those who share our commitment to solving the customer’s problem in a cost-effective, robust and timely manner.
We work with research institutions, government agencies, and commercial ocean enterprises. Our customers include the U.S. Navy/SPAWAR, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, Dalhousie University, James Cameron’s Earthship LLC, SAIC, and many of the world’s finest oceanographic institutions.
Among Global Ocean Design’s principals is ocean engineer Kevin Hardy, who retired from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD in June 2011 after 40 years of service. He is widely published in books, journals, the web, and trade magazines. His unmanned landers reached the absolute deepest point in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in March/April 2012. He is also known for his many contributions to educational outreach through the Marine Technology Society, including curriculum for K-8, creating high school and undergraduate design challenges, and professional level tutorials now common at MTS and IEEE conferences.
Inspired by the unmanned lunar landers of the 1960’s, Global Ocean Design creates untethered underwater robotic platforms to explore the most hostile regions of Earth’s oceans.
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Global Ocean Design products accelerate the development of purpose-built benthic landers and other vehicles for science, government, and commerce.
Advancements Reduced to Practice. |