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On November 26, 2025, we officially opened MarineLabs’ new headquarters in Victoria, welcoming partners, friends, and peers who have been part of our journey to advance coastal weather intelligence for maritime safety and efficiency. We were honoured to host BC Premier David Eby for a tour of the space, along with formal remarks from the […]

MarineLabs is proud to support Robert Allan Ltd., a world leading naval architecture firm based in Vancouver, Canada, in their continued delivery of excellence in vessel design. Since 1928, Robert Allan Ltd. has set the standard for innovative marine engineering, designing high-performance tugs, sophisticated research vessels, ferries, and more for clients around the globe. As

Rogue waves, like the most extreme ever recorded by MarineLabs in 2020, are defined as being at least 2.2 times as high as the significant wave height of the waves occurring around them. They can come out of nowhere and pose significant risk to maritime safety. And they are not as rare as you might

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.   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 extensive data

MarineLabs Secures $4.5 Million Seed Round from BDC Capital and Seaspan Shipyards   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 an ocean

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