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Hakai Magazine: Marine Weather Forecasts Are Getting an AI Upgrade

“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 […]

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MarineLabs Announces Forecast AI For Accurate, Hyper-Localized Weather Forecasting

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

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MarineLabs Raises Largest Seed Round in Canadian Ocean Technology History

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

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MarineLabs Partners with Kongsberg to Launch BerthWatch

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

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Conversations That Matter: Monitoring the Oceans in Real-time

“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

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MarineLabs Makes the 2022 Foresight 50 List for Cleantech

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

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MarineLabs’ Data Predicts Force of Hurricane Fiona on East Coast

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

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