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The Triton is a hybrid wind-solar powered autonomous underwater and surface vehicle capable of operating in sea states up to 15-foot waves with 30-knot winds, collecting samples and environmental data when human-operated vessels cannot safely operate. The first annual spring deployment occurred in spring 2022 on the Newport Line off the Oregon coast in collaboration with the Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) Partnership, targeting domoic acid-producing Pseudo-nitzschia algae that threaten shellfish and fish stocks consumed by marine mammals and humans. The project augments existing vessel-based HAB monitoring programs with persistent, weather-independent autonomous coverage of offshore areas not reachable during storms.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Program","value":"NOAA IOOS Ocean Technology Transition (OTT), $1M over 3 years (award 2020)"},{"label":"Partners","value":"University of Washington, Oregon State University, NANOOS, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, ORHAB Partnership"},{"label":"First deployment","value":"Spring 2022, Newport Line, Oregon coast"},{"label":"Coverage area","value":"Oregon and Washington coasts, Pacific Northwest offshore"},{"label":"Mission","value":"Harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring: domoic acid and Pseudo-nitzschia detection"},{"label":"Vessel capability","value":"Operates in sea states up to 15 ft waves, 30-knot winds; hybrid wind-solar powered"}],"reviewNote":null,"exposureHours":null,"exposureBasis":null,"customerSegment":null,"scaleTier":null,"contractValueUsd":null,"contractValueBasis":null,"customerCompanyId":null,"customerExternalName":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-11T14:45:19.967Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-12T00:12:25.953Z","model":{"id":"e1d79717-0427-4dba-b10f-a54249c9bbda","companyId":"05b562b6-6eeb-464c-af98-9ec55efff9cb","modelName":"Triton","slug":"ocean-aero-triton","description":"Ocean Aero (founded 2012 in Gulfport, Mississippi by US Navy veterans, led by CEO Kevin Decker) makes the Triton, the only surface-and-subsea hybrid vehicle in the cohort and its genuine differentiator: a dual-mode autonomous underwater and surface vehicle that sails on wind and solar power for more than 30 days at up to about five knots on the surface and submerges for more than ten days to 100 meters at about two knots, at roughly 15 feet and 1,500 pounds with a minimal radar cross-section and payloads including cameras, side-scan sonar, and mine-neutralization gear in development. It is primarily a vessel maker that also runs some operations with its own personnel, on about $60.2 million raised including from James Fisher and Sons. The registry records it at pilot maturity with an explicit scale gap: it is a real fielded vehicle with named deployments, including continuous autonomous subsea surveillance at the Port of Gulfport since May 2025, a US Navy Task Force 59 evaluation since 2023, and Black Sea operations, but it has no sustained-scale evidence, with no cumulative nautical-mile or sea-day figures, and its stated manufacturing capacity of 360 to over 1,000 Tritons per year is capacity rather than units built, so it is held at pilot and flagged so it is not presented at parity with Saildrone. Its autonomy is genuine, since multi-day unattended submerged and surface transits are not remote-pilotable, but its scale is the open question, and any cumulative total, the world-first subsea-surveillance superlative, the production-capacity figures as actual output, NOAA contract specifics, current ownership, and operational mine neutralization are not verified.","formFactor":"maritime","maturityStage":"pilot","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Ocean Aero (founded 2012, Gulfport MS; CEO Kevin Decker) makes the Triton, the ONLY surface-AND-subsea hybrid in the cohort (its genuine differentiator). Verified discrete deployments: continuous autonomous subsea surveillance at the Port of Gulfport since May 2025; US Navy / Task Force 59 evaluation since 2023 (Persian Gulf); Black Sea ops. Vessel SALE / manufacturer (also runs some ops with own personnel). ~$60.2M raised."},{"label":"Maturity = PILOT (scale gap)","value":"Real fielded vehicle with named Navy + port deployments, but NO sustained-scale evidence: no cumulative nm/sea-days figures exist. Manufacturing capacity '360 Tritons/yr, expandable to 1,000+' is stated CAPACITY, not units built. The gating signal (sustained operational scale) is the one it most clearly fails to substantiate -> pilot, flagged so it isn't presented at parity with Saildrone."},{"label":"AI-substance: genuine autonomy","value":"Multi-day unattended submerged + surface transits are not remote-pilotable - genuine autonomy. 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