AI at Sea, RampAssist & Cleaner Boating | 2025 FLIBS Nominee Throwback Part 2 | Blue Economy

What does marine innovation look like when artificial intelligence, safer boating and environmental responsibility all meet on the same dock?

Ahead of FLIBS 2026, The Blue Economy Podcast continues its look back at companies selected as nominees for the 2025 Marine Research Hub Innovation & Sustainability Awards, revisiting the technologies that stood out a year ago while attention turns toward the fourth annual awards.

Hosted by Katherine O’Fallon, Executive Director of the Marine Research Hub, Part Two returns to three conversations recorded at FLIBS 2025.

Diogo Arreda | Sales Manager | SEA.AI

SEA.AI is bringing artificial intelligence and machine vision into marine safety. Using thermal and colour sensors together with AI, its Watchkeeper technology can detect, classify and alert boaters to vessels, floating debris, containers and marine life, helping improve situational awareness day and night.

Learn more:

https://www.sea.ai/

Keith Stanley | Senior Manager, Pleasure Craft Product Line | ZF Marine

ZF Marine steps beyond its traditional propulsion and transmission business with RampAssist, a mobile app designed to make trailered boating safer and less stressful. The platform combines information on more than 24,000 boat ramps with traffic, weather and tide data, alongside a patented trailer-loading guidance system using a phone camera, visual direction and audible alerts.

Learn more:

https://www.zf.com/products/en/marine/home/marine.html

Tristan Contas | Co-Founder | Eco Safeway