About Us
Kevin Hardy with an Omega Lander
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Global Ocean Design LLC was founded in 2011, and built on more than 50 years in ocean instrument and deep ocean free vehicle design. Our unique components and systems, not available in the general marketplace, offer practical, dependable, and proven solutions for researchers, government contractors, and commercial ocean enterprises. Global Ocean Design is dedicated to your success at sea.
Our products operate from shallow waters to the deepest ocean trenches. They have withstood year-long deployments beneath the Arctic ice pack. Our landers have been successfully deployed from fishing vessels to Gyre-class oceanographic ships. In every mission, they return valuable data and samples, helping to unlock the ocean's secrets. Our customers include HII, Liquid Robotics, PacMar Technologies, STR, U.S. Navy/NIWC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Dalhousie University, SAIC, and many of the world’s finest oceanographic institutions. Our founder is ocean engineer Kevin Hardy. Prior to starting Global Ocean Design in 2011, Kevin retired from Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD after a distinguished 40-year career. In 2012, Kevin built two large unmanned landers and led the lander deployment and recovery team for James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE EXPEDITION in the Mariana Trench. Kevin is a respected author and educator, providing professional articles and tutorials to the marine community and educational outreach to the next generation of ocean engineers. |
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.
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