Seatrec

06/08/2026

🌊 The ocean is the most data-rich, least-understood place on Earth. Happy to the scientists and researchers working to change that. .

05/28/2026

🎙️ Our CEO, Yi Chao, sat down with Shulynn Ragland at The Bluture Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about what Seatrec and our InfiniTE™ float are making possible in the ocean.

Seatrec designs and manufactures subsea drones that generate electricity from ocean temperature gradients, opening up entirely new possibilities for ocean science, from mapping the seafloor to protecting whale populations.

If you're curious about where ocean technology is headed, this is a great listen.

👇 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/HbHag8HutZM

How can subsea drone technology transform our understanding of the ...

04/16/2026

Seatrec, Precise Systems, and Airtronics have signed an MOU to deliver Persistent Subsea Autonomous Profiler (PSAP) units to the U.S. Navy.

Scalable production launching in Mississippi.

Full announcement: https://seatrec.com/seatrec-precision-airtronics/

Seatrec, Precise Systems, and Airtronics sign an MOU to manufacture and deliver Persistent Subsea Autonomous Profiler (PSAP) units for the U.S. Navy, powered by ocean thermal energy harvesting technology originally developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

03/30/2026

In 1996, our CEO, Yi Chao, co-authored a paper called “Modeling the Gulf Stream System: How Far from Reality?”

He was trying to simulate one of the ocean’s most powerful current systems on a computer.

Today, a thermally-powered Seatrec infiniTE™ float has logged 510+ profiles across that broader system in the real ocean, moving from the Gulf of Mexico through the Florida Straits and into the western North Atlantic.

From model to reality.
Thirty years. Same scientist, different tools.

Full story:
https://seatrec.com/from-how-far-from-reality-to-real-time-ocean-observation/

Three decades after modeling the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras, Seatrec CEO Yi Chao now sees an infiniTE™ float tracing that broader Atlantic system after 510+ profiles from the Gulf of Mexico to the western North Atlantic.

03/05/2026

We’re heading to Honolulu! 🌺

The Seatrec team will be at Booth 503 at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) POST Conference, March 9–12. Stop by to check out our infiniTE™ Acoustic Profiling Float delivering persistent subsea soundscape monitoring through repeated vertical acoustic profiles and single-deployment operation 🌊. Learn more at NDIA.org/POST

Join the 2026 POST Conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Explore innovation and collaboration at NDIA's POST Conference in Hawaii. Don’t miss POST 2026!

02/23/2026

🌊 Sometimes the best science starts with a chance conversation.

At Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, our CEO Yi Chao started talking with two leading oceanographers — Mark Altabet from UMass Dartmouth and Eric D'Asaro from the Applied Physics Laboratory-UW. What started as a booth chat turned into a full scientific collaboration.

The mission? Push our infiniTE™ float into territory no profiling float has gone before.

Unlike battery-powered floats that ration profiles to conserve energy, the infiniTE™ harvests power directly from the ocean's own temperature gradients. That means no power penalty for more data, more profiles, more resolution. The float can also park at multiple depths, remaining long enough for sensors to collect reliable measurements — something no existing float could do.

The result: first-of-its-kind fine-scale ocean vertical structure captured — new ground for studying turbulence, ocean mixing, and carbon cycling.

We're proud of what this collaboration produced — and even prouder to say it all started with a conversation. 🤝

📍 If you're at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 this week, come find us at Booth 129. We'd love to tell you more.

🔗 https://seatrec.com/seatrecs-infinite-profiling-float-captures-first-of-its-kind-fine-scale-ocean-vertical-structure/

Seatrec’s infiniTE™ Profiling Float captures first-of-its-kind fine-scale ocean vertical structure, powered by temperature gradients. A serendipitous AGU meeting sparked this mission to transform ocean measurement with thermal energy harvesting and advanced sensors.

02/20/2026

Ocean monitoring is often limited by power. What if the ocean itself could help?

Next Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, Yi Chao, PhD (Seatrec CEO & Founder) will present on harvesting ocean temperature differences to power underwater robots and sensors for persistent monitoring.

OT21A-01 (Oral) • Tue Feb 24 • 8:30–8:40 AM (GMT)
Hall 3 — Deep Blue Lab (SEC)

Attending OSM26? Visit us at Booth 129.

02/17/2026

🌊7 days to go before the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting in Scotland!

Visit Seatrec at Booth #129 to check out our infiniTE™ float — powered by ocean temperature differences.

02/05/2026

🌊Heading to Scotland for the American Geophysical Union (AGU)'s Ocean Sciences Meeting?

Visit Seatrec at Booth #129 to check out our infiniTE™ float — powered by ocean temperature differences.

📍 Glasgow | 📅 Feb 22–27

01/06/2026

315 ocean profiles and counting 🌊
Our autonomous float is now in the Florida Straits, powered entirely by thermal energy harvesting—converting temperature gradients into electricity. No batteries. No ships. Just continuous data.
https://seatrec.com/seatrec-infinite-gulf-mission-update-315-profiles-now-in-the-florida-straits/
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Seatrec infiniTE™ Gulf Mission Update: 315 Profiles Completed, Now in the Florida Straits