Instruments for an ocean that corrects you.
Bathys builds the sensor arrays, acoustic links and decision engine that let research programs watch the deep ocean in real time and act before instability expands.
The deep ocean is not silent. It is under-instrumented. Bathys exists to put honest sensors where the physics happens, move their readings to a human within twelve milliseconds, and make the picture legible enough that people override the machine well.
- Ocean Buoys
- 4,092 live
- Acoustic Latency
- 12ms avg
- Readings Sampled
- 2.4B / day
- Contained incidents
- 24 to date
Three rules the array is built around.
- 01
Loud early, quiet late
The engine surfaces a gradient minutes before it becomes an event. Operators decide; the system never hides a signal to look calm.
- 02
Every transit is a survey
Vessels carrying Bathys hardware map the seafloor continuously. The bathymetry model is versioned, diffed and never older than the last passage.
- 03
Humans stay in the loop
Autonomous ballast release exists to buy time, not to replace judgment. Nine of twenty-four contained incidents were operator holds.
From four moorings to three basins.
- 2021
Bathys founded in Seattle. First four-mooring test array deployed off the Juan de Fuca Ridge.
- 2023
Acoustic relay network reaches the 12 ms budget. Autonomous ballast release policy enters governed rollout.
- 2025
Java trench deployment: 22 moorings, first versioned bathymetry model, 24 contained turbidity incidents.
- 2026
Mariana array at 6,050 m. 4,092 live buoys across three basins. thermocline_alpha becomes the default model.
The people writing the log.
- AT OPS_LEAD
Aiko Tanaka
Field Operations Director
Field Operations Director. Has deployed and recovered more than 300 moorings across the Pacific and Indian Ocean basins.
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Dr. Ingrid Solheim
Chief Oceanographer
Chief Oceanographer at Bathys. Twenty years of abyssal survey work, from the Norwegian Sea to the Mariana Trench.
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Mateo Ferreira
Sensor Systems Lead
Sensor Systems Lead. Designs the hydrophone chains, pressure hulls and calibration routines behind the Bathys array.
Put the array where your science needs it.
Bathys onboards a limited number of research programs each season. Tell us about your basin, your vessel and your survey boundary.