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Oceancaster help maritime professionals source, visualise, and analyse maritime data.

Minimize costs

Make better decisions

Prevent future incidents

Respond efficiently

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Maritime Incidents

A Daily Reality

  • Every day, ships around the world are involved in serious incidents. Crashes, groundings, fires and explosions are unfortunately common.
  • Aside from possible loss of life, pollution and reputational damage, incidents cost stakeholders millions.
  • Minimising costs means understanding incidents. This requires combining, visualising and analysing a lot of data from multiple sources.
  • Oceancaster help our clients with every stage of this process, taking complex combinations of data and producing clear visualisations of maritime incidents for you or your advisors to analyse.

How we help

Oceancaster help maritime professionals source, visualise, and analyse maritime data

We focus on the maritime casualty niche, working with shipowners, insurers, lawyers, marine consultants and government agencies

We are software specialists and mariners who bring together the evidence surrounding an incident, whatever that may be. We then help clients to understand that evidence and share it with a multitude of stakeholders

Fire leading to loss of vessel

Merging of CCTV, VDR data and engine room logs - causation.

Vessel Grounding

Fast Response third party evidence – getting the right responders on site fast

Cargo loss and damage

VDR data merging with predicted cargo movement – incident response

Complex Data

We help maritime professionals understand their data

Complex Datasets

We specialise in extracting and working with tricky VDR data, sourcing and filtering complex AIS datasets and combining these with CCTV and other data streams such as audio recording and 360 imagery.

Visualisation

We offer visualisation of VDR, AIS, CCTV data, audio and 360 imagery and use this in combination with advanced digital mapping techniques (GIS) to produce high quality visualisations to make the picture clearer.

Analysis

Let us do the legwork. We can quickly and effectively narrow your large, complex datasets down to what really matters, giving you the answers you need.

Insights

We transform complex maritime data into actionable insights. Our insights help you make informed decisions, whether it's for legal proceedings, insurance claims, or preventing future incidents.

Experience

Oceancaster help our clients and partners to understand what has happened in detail following maritime incidents.

This work helps our clients deal with the financial and legal fall out, and helps teams to avoid these incidents happening in future.

Our team have years of experience of working with:

  • Maritime lawyers
  • Insurance claims handlers
  • Marine consultants
  • Government agencies
  • Shipowners
  • Maritime software providers

Team

The Oceancaster Team

The Oceancaster team are ex-seafarers and software developers – we deeply understand the data we analyse. We have years of experience in the digital investigation of maritime incidents, and are based in London, UK

Giles Hunnisett

Giles Hunnisett :: Founder

Master mariner, incident investigator and system designer

Rob Crowther

Rob Crowther :: Digital Evidence Specialist

Ex-seafarer and software developer using novel GIS and data visualisation techniques to investigate maritime incidents

Craig Shewry

Craig Shewry :: Software Engineer

Ex-seafarer and software developer with strong data analytics and machine learning background

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