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Charles Chiau and the Art of Building Where Pressure Wins
He learned engineering in places where a loose screw can cost a day and the ocean punishes wishful thinking. Now the Bedrock co-founder is turning two decades of vehicle-building into a fleet designed to make the seafloor legible.
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.