Irish inventors hope to clean up the world’s oceans with a zero-fuel, zero-emission tug boat that is propelled only by the waves. The Jospa tug, billed as a sustainable vessel, has been tested at University College Cork’s (UCC) maritime research centre in Ringaskiddy.

“We use the orbital velocity of the wave to power the tugs,” said Patrick Duffy, Jospa’s co-founder. “Waves move in an analogous way to a line of cars that stop at traffic lights. A car races up, hits the back car, and the impetus is passed from one to the other. They pass on their energy.”

Read on - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/self-propelling-irish-tug-could-clean-up-our-oceans-dftsc7ztq

Dublin Offshore contributed to a piece by the Irish Times outlining the opportunities for the marine economy, and the surge in new technologies on offer from Start Ups operating here.

Tom Doyle recently spoke at the Our Ocean Wealth Summit in Cork. Click for more.

Dublin Offshore have been selected to undertake a feasibility study for Impact9 who are developing innovative aquaculture systems for exposed offshore sites. Key benefits of the technology are:

• Affordable and safe access to high energy offshore sites.
• Stable positioning and submergibility for protection against sea lice & disease
• Diver-less installation

Dublin Offshore will provide concept engineering along with numerical & physical Modelling. (Physical modelling to take place at Lir Ocean Test Centre in Cork)