Out of deep water.

Offshore projects rarely fail for lack of technology or funding. They fail for lack of a strategic framework.

SeaSense delivers a data-driven strategic and regulatory framework, built on 300+ marine projects worldwide.

The problem

Nobody holds the whole picture.

Many companies come to the sea from land-based industries, where the permit path is known. However, offshore regulatory authority is split between several agencies, each responsible for its own part of the sea and its own approval. The data has many owners, and the lessons of past projects stay with the people who lived through them.

Companies usually find this out at the most expensive step of the project.

The system

300+

marine projects, worldwide

SeaSense collects data on marine projects around the world: desalination, offshore wind and solar, subsea cables, ports and data centres at sea. Each project is linked to the regulation around it, from authorities and permits to international conventions. Projects that stalled or were cancelled are recorded too. Their points of failure are what make our reports sharper. Every fact links back to its source.

SeaSense side-by-side comparison of two floating wind projects

What we deliver

A strategic framework, data-based.

We answer the questions that decide a marine project: should you go ahead, where, what will approval involve, and what can go wrong. Our answers are based on evidence from comparable projects worldwide:

Permits they needed
Authorities involved
Risks that came up
Decisions that worked

You get a clear recommendation, the regulatory path ahead and the risks to plan for, with the environmental impact assessed alongside.

From answering a single focused question to providing a full strategy report for your venture.

Learning from the world

Before you launch, see how similar projects played out.

North Sea, UKFirst floating wind farm, 30 MW off ScotlandOperating since 2017

Atlantic, PortugalFloating wind, 25 MW off Viana do CasteloOperating since 2020

Atlantic, USATwo offshore wind farms off New JerseyCancelled 2023

Pacific, USASeawater desalination plant, Huntington Beach, CaliforniaPermit refused 2022

North Sea, UKUnderwater data centre pilot off OrkneyRetrieved 2020

South China SeaCommercial underwater data centre off HainanIn service since 2023

Each project in the system comes with its timeline, the parties involved and the reasons it moved forward or stopped. That is what our strategy reports are built on.

The direction

Infrastructure is moving offshore. The sea needs order.

In 2020, the ocean economy was worth

$2.6T

twice its 1995 size in real terms. In 2019, as a country, it would have been the world's fifth-largest economy.

Source: OECD, The Ocean Economy to 2050

Over the next five years, offshore wind is expected to draw

$661B

in global investment, alongside desalination, subsea cables and data centres at sea.

Source: RenewableUK, June 2026. £493bn at $1.34 per £.

Our mission is to bring order to the marine space: clear information and the lessons of past projects, with care for the marine environment at every step.

Contact

Tell us about your project and the decisions you face.

We will reply with a proposal setting out the scope, the contents of the report, the timeline and the fee. If you have a single question, you are welcome to start there.

Or write to us directly

seasense131@gmail.com