This document summarizes information about Tidetech, a company that provides tidal and ocean current data and modeling services. It introduces key personnel such as the Science Director and Managing Director and describes Tidetech's background, expertise in coastal modeling, and major customers/partners such as Carnival Cruise Lines, various Olympic sailing teams, and weather routing providers. It also provides examples of Tidetech's global and regional tidal models and validation efforts and its role in applications like vessel speed optimization.

1. Penny Haire
Managing Director
penny.haire@tidetech.org
About Tidetech
Roger Proctor
Science Director
penny.haire@tidetech.org

2. Introduction
• Tidetech’s key people
• Background to the company
• Core expertise
• Key customers / partners
• Projects, ideas

3. Key people
Roger Proctor – Science Director
• Ex UK Govt scientist (Proudman Lab), leader of coastal modelling and
observations group (2000-2008); leader of Liverpool Bay coastal
observatory; development of forecast tide/surge models and physical -
biogeochemical models for UK Met Office
• Oceanographic consultant to GBR Olympic Sailing Team (1988-2008)
• 2008-2018 Director, Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine
Observing System, responsible for data management of and access to
IMOS observation collections and integration of the wider distributed
Australian marine data collections.

4. Penny Haire - Managing Director
• 20 year Career in Sail Training
• Previously Chief Instructor for Royal Yachting Association (UK) and Chief Examiner
for Yachting Australia
• Managed projects in collaboration with UKHO for training software and materials
• Special interest in Electronic Navigation
• Founded Tidetech in 2008 with Roger Proctor
Roger Flather – Modelling Consultant
• Ex UK Govt scientist (Proudman Lab); initiator of UK tide/surge modelling capability
Clothilde Langlais – Seconded from CSIRO
• Ocean and coastal modeller
• Ocean observation analysis.

5. Developers
• Henry Nichols – GIS, database
• Tim Heap – Scientific programming, Back End,
Python, API’s
• Kris Powell – Front end, Customer support
• James Baker – DevOps, Releiability

6. Company Background

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Tidal Currents – Shortage of Official Data
Singapore and
Malacca Straits
Straits of
Hormuz
China Sea
Images from
Admiralty TotalTide
© Crown Copyright
2011, UK
Hydrographic Office

8. First application – CSIRO currents for Sydney to
Hobart Yacht Race 2008

9. Software Integration – Recreational

10. 34th Americas Cup 2013
Tidetech San Francisco Bay Hydrodynamic Model
Copyright © America’s Cup Race Management 2013

11. Olympics - Australian Team 2012
Various teams for Rio 2016 and Japan 2020

12. Carnival Cruise Lines - 2010
• Approach from CCL
• Initial study
• Yacht racing study
installed on 6 vessels
• Introduction to SAM
electronics

13. Tidetech - UKHO tidal streams comparison

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15. English Channel Currents Comparison
Calais Cowes
49°45.00'N 1°14.90'W 50°30.44'N 1°16.69'W

16. San Francisco Bay Tidal Model – Validation
• Validation with ADCP
• Model adjustment

17. Commercial Shipping - Integrations with
third party solutions
• ECDIS – Weather overlays
• Weather Routing
• Speed optimisation
• Vessel performance analysis
• Complete Voyage Optimisation
• Fleet Management

18. Wärtsilä Sam Electronics
11 cruise vessels- Carnival Cruise Lines and Princess Cruises
ECDIS Integration
Nacos Platinum System

19. DNV Veracity

20. Weathernews International
Supply of current data:
• Global Ocean Currents
• 5,000+ vessels

21. Eniram – a Wärtsilä Company
Maritime Energy Management
Systems
• Integration with Speed Optimisation and
Skylight applications
• Commercial since 2014
• 440 vessels using Tidetech Metocean Data

22. Napa Class NK
Images courtesy of NAPA Voyage Optimisation, Star Cruises and BORE Finland
• 350 Vessels using Tidetech Data for
route and speed optimisation
• 5% verified fuel savings
• Fleet intelligence – Tidetech data
suite used for performance analysis
for 55,000 vessels
ClassNK Napa Green
Speed Pilot
Fleet Intelligence
Solution

23. Polestar Global
Fleet Management, SSAS Alert
Advanced and Marine Asset
Tracker 2.0 customers
Web map service for met-
ocean data layers
12,000 vessels, LRIT and
fisheries tracking

24. Marinepress
Sea Passage Sea Ops

25. Wartsila Transas

26. Point Data – Hindcast or forecast
• Multiparameter point
requests
• Up to 1,000 separate
locations in a single
request
Vessel position reports – Emma Maersk Jan – Feb 2017

27. Time
Tidetech
Third party
AWS Relational Database
and File System
API
Output
points
geoJSON
grib
netCDF
lines
custom
WMS
Tidetech Systems
AWS EC2

28. Model Coverage - Global
Global Tidal Elevations Global Combined Tidal and non Tidal Currents

29. Model Coverage - Regional
• Tidetech
• Third Party

30. Regional Model Example – UK South Coast

31. Modelling Programme
Priority
1. Research where tidal
effects are significant
2. Establish regions
where marine activity
is concentrated, using
AIS data
3. Prioritise model
development

32. Tidal Models – Speed Optimisation

33. Questions?