Episode 20 - Seabed 2030 Partner, Bedrock Ocean Exploration

For our December 2025 episode, Head of Partnerships Steve Hall speaks to Bridgit Boulahanis, Director of Data & Solutions, and Charles Chiau CEO, CTO & co-founder of Bedrock Ocean Exploration - one of the very first industry Partners to join forces with Seabed 2030 back in 2020, a USA-based compay that "develops technology to rethink the way the world collects and uses seafloor data" with the tagline "Systematically exploring the oceans."

Bridgit and Charles speak about the company's passion for seabed mapping and knowledge sharing, including the innovative Mosaic system that allows users to log-in for very high resolution seabed mapping of up to 25cm resolution in areas where the data exists. 

Bedrock are also a very well respected builder of specialist marine autonomous systems. They are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale not hitherto possible, offering subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud & local software to effectively store, process and make sense of their client's subsea data.

For more information about Bedrock contact Charles at charles@bedrockocean.com or Bridgit at bridgit@bedrockocean.com 

Towards the end of the podcast we mention the forthcoming opportunity to learn more about Seabed 2030 at two sessions we're organising on 11th March 2026 during Oceanology International - contact Steve at partnerships@seabed2030.org for more information. 

With thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast music, intro & outro. 

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Chapters

• 0:28 Start & Introduction to Episode 20
• 1:36 Start of interviews
• 5:06 What does Bedrock do?
• 7:16 Annual seafloor data releases shared through 'Mosaic'
• 11:09 Bedrock's AUV systems
• 19:06 Seabed mapping as an adventure
• 23:38 What's coming up next for Bedrock?
• 26:39 Near-real-time data reporting
• 28:57 Seabed mapping beyond this planet? Moons with liquid oceans..
• 31:17 Collaboration with Academics
• 34:42 How to find out more?
• 35:35 Questions from Charles & Bridget to Steve about Seabed 2030
• 40:01 Closing comments
• 40:44 End credits
• 42:53 End