Opportunity to Sponsor Project NEMO
(Novel Echosounder to Measure the Ocean)
We Need to Map the Ocean Floor - and Now We Can
Project NEMO seeks sponsors who want to understand the last unexplored frontier on earth bymapping the seafloor in a carbon-friendly and sustainable approach. We have yet to map 80%of the seafloor. Seabed 2030, an international project, has the aspirational goal of mapping theentire seafloor by the end of the decade. However, today’s mapping approach, centeredaround ships, is carbon-intensive and expensive requiring 300 ship-years at a cost of $5B.
There are not enough ships at sea to do the job, especially in remote areas south of theEquator where vessels rarely transit. Seatrec has set out to build a cost-effective andsustainable technology, complementary to ships and existing autonomous vehicles, toaccomplish Seabed 2030’s goal to map the global ocean.

Why Map the Seafloor?
Example use cases that benefit from a complete seafloor map.

Climate and Ocean
Science

Defining Marine
Protection Areas

Discovery andExploration

Communications
Cabling

Measure shapes anddepths of the ocean
floor, instrumental inunderstanding andforecasting climate, sealevel rise, ocean
circulation, tides, andbiological hotspots.

Understand species
distribution impacted by
the seafloor terrain, andcapture data to bettermodel these areas forsound policy impacting
sustainability, fishing,and tourism.

Benchmark for efficient
expeditions to spot
previously unseenfeatures such as
seamounts, canyons,sand waves, faults,canyons, ancient coral
reefs, and shipwrecks.

Define the scientific basis
for management ofexisting and/or potential
cable crossings; informbusiness decisions
considering measurable
environmental impacts toecosystems.

Sponsoring One Million Soundings
Our goal is to deploy as many NEMO floats in the ocean as possible and needed to map the80% gaps by 2030. Funding for Project NEMO includes the full costs of production,
coordination, deployment, and management of a fleet of floats that will provide new seafloor
soundings of bathymetry (ocean floor depth). Sponsors may select the location and berecognized for the discovery of new features such as uncharted seamounts.

When It Comes to the Ocean, Sound is Everything!
Project NEMO is a breakthrough opportunity that integrates three technology innovations:
1) an innovative echosounder designed by Airmar Technologies,2) autonomous profiling floats (as demonstrated by the Argo program), and3) pioneering ocean thermal energy harvesting technology developed by Seatrec.
The transformative echosounder "pings" the seafloor when the profiling float parks below thethermocline (the layer between the warmer water at the surface and the cooler deep water
underneath). After each sounding, the float surfaces to obtain a GPS position and transmits
topographical data via satellite. During the ascent, this system recharges with Seatrec’s energy
harvesting technology that converts the ocean thermal energy associated with the temperature
difference into electricity to charge the onboard batteries and sustainably extend the float’slifetime.

Every Sounding Counts!
Project NEMO’s goal is to collect needed seafloor data in under-mapped areas. To start, wewill map the most remote location - Point Nemo - in the South Pacific Ocean between New
Zealand and Chile. Named after Captain Nemo, the submarine sailor from Jules Verne’s
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Point Nemo is literally the middle of nowhere,
surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction. You can be the first to map
an uncharted area and who knows what lies beneath the sea!