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MarineLabs has expanded its highly accurate, hyper-local weather forecast to 10 days, providing vessel pilots, port authorities, and maritime operators with the information they need to make safer, more informed decisions. This upgrade builds on our already trusted 48-hour forecasting, extending accurate forecasts tailored to each location’s unique features and geography further into the future.  […]

“The Canadian government operates roughly 60 land-based weather stations and buoys along the BC coast, but they are spread too far apart to capture conditions everywhere. To decide if it’s safe to cast off, then, ship captains are left shuffling between subscription weather services and free apps, says Scott Beatty, the CEO of Victoria-based start-up

Forecast AI’s advanced machine learning models are trained on actual local observed data for more accurate coastal weather forecasts. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Victoria, BC, July 23, 2024 – MarineLabs, a leader in cutting-edge maritime weather intelligence technology, today announced Forecast AI, accurate and hyper-localized coastal weather forecasts delivered through MarineLabs’ new machine learning models and

MarineLabs Secures $4.5 Million Seed Round from BDC Capital and Seaspan Shipyards FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Victoria BC, March 13, 2024 – MarineLabs, a leader in cutting edge maritime weather intelligence technology, proudly announces the successful completion of a historic $4.5 million seed funding round, marking the largest investment of its kind in Canadian history for

MarineLabs has announced a groundbreaking partnership with multinational company Kongsberg to introduce BerthWatch, an innovative real-time berth depth monitoring and reporting system. This cutting-edge technology will revolutionize ship and port operations by providing access to critical berth-depth data. With BerthWatch, terminal operators will have the ability to monitor the status of the berth pocket in

“The ocean is actively trying to destroy everything that you put there, from breakwaters, to markers, to different kinds of buoys or sensors.” “The challenge is exciting to us, building technologies that can be rugged enough to handle those types of ocean conditions and be reliable for coastal communities and industries.” Our CEO Dr. Scott

MarineLabs has been named one of Canada’s most investable cleantech ventures as a part of Foresight Canada’s 2022 Foresight 50 list Foresight is Canada’s cleantech accelerator that brings together innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia to address today’s most urgent climate issues and support a global transition to a green economy. Foresight 50 shines a

MarineLabs CEO, Dr. Scott Beatty, discusses MarineLabs’ role in climate adaptation, how and who collected data helps, and MarineLabs’ next goals in Road To Recovery, with Hannah Lepine, Douglas Magazine, and CHEK News. Watch the interview at CHEK News.

MarineLabs CEO Dr. Scott Beatty shares the impact of MarineLabs’ hyper-local real-time and aggregated wave and wind data on climate adaptation and coastal infrastructure investments with Amber Mac and Michael Bancroft on The Feed Podcast. Listen to The Feed, Episode 318: Helping Storm Watchers With Accurate Forecasts Of Severe Weather Events at The Feed Podcast.

In an interview with Global News and Kylie Stanton, MarineLabs Director of Software Engineering, Michael Fischer, discusses wind and wave data measured by MarineLabs buoys from Hurricane Fiona passing the Atlantic Ocean, and how it can help plan for coastal resilience. Extreme wind and wave data measured at their buoys in the Atlantic Ocean over