ecoSUB AUVs have been developed through extensive collaboration, and many partner organisations have been involved in joint projects and initiatives that have advanced our progress.  Notably, many engineers from the National Oceanography Centre have played active roles at various stages of ecoSUBs development, keenly led by Dr Alex Phillips from the NOC's Marine Autonomous Robotics Systems group (MARS).

Our operational team below, are supported by Directors, Carole Sloane & Graham Sloane together with an Advisory Board representing Science, Energy and Defence.

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M: +447774180179
​E: terry@ecosub.uk

Terry Sloane
Managing Director

Terry has been involved in ocean engineering in one form or another for 40 years. Trained originally as an electronics engineer, he is a fellow of both IMarEST & the Royal Meteorological Society.  Terry serves as chairman of the Marine Science & Technology Group (formally AMSI), a constituent group of the Society of Maritime Industries).  Terry is a founder member of the IMarEST Operational Oceanography SIG and is a council member of the Challenger Society for Marine Science . Terry is a member of the Mary Rose Trust, learning and education team and provides guest lecturers in data logging to undergraduate and postgraduate courses in marine archeology; he has also been a technical consultant to the BBC.
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Terry has served as both technical director and sales and marketing director of some of the industry’s best known companies and formed Planet Ocean Ltd in 2003 and subsequently ecoSUB Robotics Limited in 2016.

Terry has overall responsibility for the ecoSUB concept and direction of the ecoSUB project ensuring that the focus remains firmly on end user expectations.

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M: +447788201875
​E: iain@ecosub.uk

Iain Vincent
Director

​Iain Vincent is a graduate in Marine Environmental Science from the University of Portsmouth, UK. Iain is a founder member of the Society of Maritime Industries, Marine Autonomous Systems Group.

Iain has extensive experience working with key marine science institutions across the UK as well as international manufacturers of sensor technology, and benefits from many productive relationships with members of the science community. Iain has led programs to secure funding for the development of ecoSUB AUVs and has been involved in the concept design, stakeholder engagement, project overview and direction of the ecoSUB program.

​In 2016 Iain was appointed as a Director of ecoSUB Robotics Limited, the company formed to spin out the low cost AUV technology developed in collaboration between Planet Ocean and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Senior Robotics & Embedded Software Engineer

View our career opportunities here

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CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Robotics & Embedded Software Engineer

View our career opportunities here

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​E: peter@planet-ocean.co.uk

Peter Hanley
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Pete is a graduate of the University of Portsmouth and has worked with ecoSUB since 2016, providing mechanical design for the AUVs platforms and developing.  Pete's role has been critical in the transition from our early prototype systems to our production vehicles, ensure ecoSUB AUVs are easy to use platforms.

Pete has been working in the marine autonomous systems sector for nearly 10 years and prior to that worked in mechanical design for Formula 1.

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T: +442380591509 
​E: leif@ecosub.uk

Leif Klingheim
Production, Procurement & Test Manager - Marine Robotics Systems

Leif leads our ecoSUB division production capability overseeing procurement, production and test; developing the systems and process required to support the growing ecoSUB order book.

Leif is a graduate of the University of Oslo, Norway & Narvik University College and has served in the Andenes Airforce.

Leif is based in the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre located within the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

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E: danny@planet-ocean.co.uk

Danny Robinson
Finance Manager 

Danny has been with Planet Ocean since 2004, Danny manages the finances for the ecoSUB division.

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The whole team...

Developing ecoSUB AUVs has been a huge collaborative effort involving many partners from a wide range of organisations, notably National Oceanography Center, but also other academic and research institutes, companies and organisations.  We would love to recognise everyone and apologies to anyone missed off the list.  Acknowledgments below:

Key sub-contractors:
​Mark Chalmers  -  ​​Alan Gould  -  Franck Sitbon

Everyone else:
Edwin Anarcaya  -  Ayana Benyon-Marno  -  Richard Austin-Berry  -  Steven Booth  -  Pete Bromley  -  James Burris  -  David Burton  -  Peter Collinson  -  Surya Dinesh  -  Andy Culbreath  -  Jon Downes  -  Alex Downer  -  Kevin Edwards  -  Davide Fenucci  -  James Fishwick  -  Maaten Furlong  -  David Goldsmith  -  Peter Goss  -  Naomi Gold  -  David Graham  -  Catherine Harris  -  Julie Herring  -  Rand Ismaeel  -  Phil Johnson  -  Matthew Kingsland  -  John Koegler  -  Den Lakin  -  Nathan Lawrence  -  Artur Lidtke  -  Nick Linton  -  Joe Little  -  Tom Lowndes  -  Hugh Maclean  -  Graeme McGhee  -  Kay McGuinness  -  Dennis Meyer  -  Andrew Morris  -  Marcus Muller  -  Andrea Munafo  -  Jeff Neasham  -  Jay Nicholson  -  Josh Nicholson  -  Alex Phillips  -  Ella Richards  -  Mark Rios  -  Jeremy Sitbon  -  Oliver Skisland  -  Nick Smedley  -  András Sóbester  -  Carole Sloane  -  Graham Sloane  -  Shawn Taggart  -  Rob Templeton  -  Aidan Thorn  -  Sebastian Thune  -  Nick Townsend  -  Mark Wood  -  Russ Wynn  -  Robin Yellow  -  Smart Sound Plymouth Team  -  Breaking the Surface Team, Croatia

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Follow this link to find out more about our Advisory Board, supporting the work of the ecoSUB Robotics team