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C-Dive Bet on a New Boat in an Oil Bust - and Turned an Aging Fleet Into Its Opening
In 2017, while offshore operators were stacking vessels, a three-man Houma diving outfit put a purpose-built saturation ship to work. The bet reveals when expensive, unfashionable infrastructure can become a small company's sharpest edge.
NOV
NOV built its name on the heavy machinery of drilling. Its more revealing product today is the connection between machines - a global web of parts, service, software and industrial know-how that keeps energy infrastructure moving.
BeeX
The Singapore deeptech cutting the tether on underwater inspection - autonomous drones that survey ships, wind farms and seabeds without divers, ROV pilots or a support vessel overhead.
Terradepth
Terradepth is an Austin-area ocean-data and subsea-intelligence company founded in 2018 by former U.S. Navy SEALs Joe Wolfel and Judson Kauffman. It pairs autonomous underwater vehicles that collect seabed data with Absolute Ocean, a cloud-native, government-grade platform for storing, visualizing, sharing and analyzing that data. Marketed as Ocean-Data-as-a-Service (ODaaS), Terradepth serves defense, offshore energy and maritime customers who need to map, understand and protect the roughly three-quarters of the planet that lies underwater.