Waves Group Announces the Launch of Oceancaster - A New Company Supplying Digital Services to Understand Incidents at Sea
Waves Group is excited to announce the launch of Oceancaster, a new independent maritime software company, born from Waves Group’s Maritime Digital division.
Oceancaster will specialise in providing data and visualisations to support the investigation and management of maritime incidents, helping parties gain understanding so that clear and timely decisions about the next steps can be made.
The spin-off to create Oceancaster is the direct result of the success of Waves Group’s Maritime Digital team over the last 5 years, providing high-quality maritime data and visualisation services to support its traditional consultancy expertise and advice and helping to give our clients increased certainty in the outcome of their projects and operations.
Recognising the development of digital data access for shipping operations, Waves Group pro-actively invested in this capability with a team of specialist mariners with strong digital data and evidence expertise and software development skills. This resulted in the development of specialist tools, owned by Waves Group, that can provide detailed analysis of data and maritime incidents more efficiently than traditional methods. Since investing in these unique and innovative tools, we have led the way in the use of digital data in the analysis and visualisation of maritime incidents, including our CASPAR rapid casualty assessment reports, berth use analyses, AIS data analysis and incident reconstructions.
Spinning-off this team as a new company, will enable Oceancaster to focus on developing innovative and efficient digital solutions for the industry’s evolving needs. Waves Group will be a key partner to the new company, continuing to provide the same high-quality advice to our clients, combined with data and visualisations. We will work closely together with Oceancaster to develop new digital tools and techniques and apply them to solve problems for our clients, who will benefit from the combined strength of both companies.
Waves Group CEO, Simon Burnay said “The creation of Oceancaster is an exciting and important milestone for Waves Group and the Oceancaster team. We are looking forward to seeing the benefits of the acceleration and focus on maritime digital tools that this will create, and to our continued close working relationship with Giles and the team. The need for the creation of Oceancaster is testament to the success of Waves Group’s investment in the unique combination of operational experience, digital data and advanced software tools to give our clients more certainty. I would like to thank Giles, the maritime digital team and everyone involved in its growth for their efforts. This is an exciting step, and we wish Oceancaster the best of success.”
Oceancaster CEO and master mariner Giles Hunnisett said “So much of the critical evidence we see today following maritime incidents is digital, but it can be very challenging for stakeholders to access and combine this evidence to get useful insight into a matter. We’re using new technologies with well tested methodology to improve this situation. We’re really grateful to everyone at Waves Group who has supported us to chase these new goals.”
Waves Group is proud to have been instrumental in the development of advanced tools and techniques for the use and application of maritime digital data and we will continue to develop and innovate in this sector. We look forward to supporting Oceancaster and taking these developments and tools to the next level.
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About Waves Group: Waves Group provides high quality technical advice and support to the marine and offshore energy industries, with the aim of increasing certainty in the outcome of projects and operations for our client. We provide risk mitigation and management services for the shipping, ports and offshore energy sectors with our team of Master Mariners, Naval Architects, Marine Engineers, Maritime Civil Engineers and 3D data specialists, combined operational advice with digital data, advanced analyses and software tools. For more information about Waves Group, our services and digital solutions , please visit www.waves-group.co.uk or contact us at +44 (0) 20 7083 7266.
About Oceancaster:
Oceancaster helps maritime professionals to source, visualise and analyse maritime data, and specialises in incident investigation, legal and insurance markets. We provide services like VDR reconstructions, AIS data analysis and digital charting to help stakeholders understand incidents so that clear and timely decisions about next steps can be made. The Oceancaster team are all ex-mariners with strong digital evidence experience. Visit www.oceancaster.com for more information.
