Welcome back to the Ocean Embassy! 

It has been rather quiet on here for two months, a lot going on, but we are back with some amazing episodes in the pipeline and some exciting news.

First, some housekeeping – the Ocean Embassy now has a supporters' page on Steady, where you can subscribe to exclusive additional content while helping me produce the show with a small monthly contribution. It allows me to keep this advertisement free, accessible to everyone on all the platforms, while helping me produce more regularly. I’ve really noticed that it’s no small feat to produce a podcast and really want to move into a much more regular and professional production. I’d be incredibly helpful if you feel like supporting the work and sharing the podcast more widely, plus once I do have a steady support on there, I plan to produce additional, exclusive content regarding episodes and guest features. You’ll find the link in the shownotes and all the media channels if you want to check it out!

Now, onto our amazing guest!

Christine de Silva is a marine biologist at the University of Rhode Island and co-founder of the company Juice Robotics. I met her during a virtual meeting and was totally hooked on her idea, her passion and rigor and knew she had to come on here. With Juice Robotics, Christine aims to revolutionize and democratize deep sea technology that allows exploration of our ocean. As you heard in the intro, more than 93% of our oceans are considered deep sea. If you wonder why we need to explore these places, do keep listening because that is exactly what we’ll talk about – besides all the technical gist and general functioning of their work. I think Christine is super impressive and I love the work for several reasons, mostly because us engineers sometimes tend to overcomplicate technology, making it prohibitively expensive, and that definitely holds true for deep sea technology.

Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.

Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel

Mixing: Anna Madlener

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