We are on a mission

We have built & operated autonomous underwater vehicles and systems for defense, commercial and academic customers. Our submarines run on hydrogen, collects microplastics and ocean health data while transporting cargo to decarbonize the transport sector.

The team

Dhruv Boruah
Founder & CEO

MBA/Engineer, ZeroTo1 Founder, IBM/Siemens, Award winning Ocean Campaigner & Sailor

Jonathan Pompa
VP – Engineering

AUV build/operations for Defense/Commercial/Science customers, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Carnegie Mellon University

Rob Damus
Advisor – Submarine Systems

Co-founder & COO Hadal, AUV & Underwater Robotics build/operations for Defense/Science/Commercial customers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Ocean Engineering, MIT AUV Lab

Suman Khatiwada PhD
Advisor – Strategy

Co-Founder & CTO at Syzygy Plasmonics, Hard-tech entrepreneur & material scientist

Hans Thomas
Advisor – Submarine & Robotics

NASA – Deputy Lead,Autonomy & Robotics Area, Flight Software Engineer at KBR, 20+yr AUV Experience (MBARI), Carnegie Mellon University

Capt. Steve Bramley
Operations & Regulations

Retired Royal Navy, Aircraft/ Surface ship Command & Submarine Experience

Our journey

2023
First Sea Trials

Successfully  completed completed in the Atlantic Ocean in Florida

2022
Second Submarine Build

Designed & built second prototype (Perl/OW004) for sea trials

Cargo Type Focus

Identified industrial use case and partners

2021
COP26

Invited to exhibit our first prototype at COP26 in Glasgow

UK Government Grant

Completed detailed engineering designs, BoM & cargo identification

First Submarine Build

First prototype (Esmeralda/OW001) designed & built and exhibited using salvaged materials

2020
Submarine Idea

In a challenge, someone mentions submarines to cleanup ocean is not a good idea

2019
Starts Incubator

to help startups help us reach our mission of removing 300m tons of carbon & plastic from economy

First Submarine Designs

were created along with consultations about hydrogen/ ocean scientists

2018
The Project goes viral

The project reaches over 300m people worldwide