Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Janssen of Sofar to talk about the paucity of ocean data (3:30), creating an ocean sensing network (6:15), the engineering challenge (8:30), modeling (10:30), why he left academia (15:15), raising money (19:20), coming here from the Netherlands (21:10), his customers (22:30), what’s happening in the oceans (33:25), and dropping the first sensor in the water (37:30).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.4	If you think about any major industry in the ocean,
0:07.5	it's going to be affected by uncertainties associated with weather.
0:11.2	And right now, the uncertainties with weather over the ocean
0:14.3	are at a different order of magnitude than they are overland.
0:17.9	And that's simply because over land,
0:19.6	we have weather stations on rooftops.
0:21.6	In the ocean, we have none of that.
0:32.6	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley,
0:35.4	your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes
0:37.3	and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:39.5	I'm your host, Danny Fortin, the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
0:43.9	I am back from vacation, back from Jamaica.
0:47.7	Oh my goodness.
0:49.6	I am sad.
0:51.3	It was fabulous.
0:52.8	What an amazing place.
0:57.0	But now here I am. Back at my home office,
1:04.0	which is of course my kitchen table, recording this for all you lovely people. I hope everybody is doing well and able to like, you know, get some kind of summer escape because
1:10.0	it was restorative to the mind, body, and soul.
1:14.4	But anyway, that's not what you're here to hear about. You're here to hear about my conversation
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