C L E A R S E A S M A R I T I M E
Clarity for a complex maritime & regulatory world.
ClearSeas Maritime provides senior, independent insight to help organisations navigate complexity, clarify risk, and make defensible decisions in a rapidly evolving maritime domain.
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Driven by technological innovation, the energy transition, and evolving environmental regulation, this change brings opportunity alongside growing technical, regulatory, and strategic complexity. ClearSeas Maritime works at this intersection, translating advanced science, technology, and policy into trusted, operationally credible, and commercially viable maritime capability.
About Us
ClearSeas Maritime is the independent advisory practice from maritime technologist André Cocuccio, providing evidence-led advice that translates advanced science, technology, and policy into trusted, operationally credible, and commercially viable marine and maritime capability.​ With deep experience across ocean data acquisition, safety of navigation, offshore development, and maritime strategy, ClearSeas supports organisations making complex, high-consequence decisions at the intersection of technical uncertainty, operational risk, and regulatory accountability.​
ClearSeas operates on a senior-led, principal-delivered model, with André personally involved in each and every engagement. Advisory work is shaped by extensive experience across government, industry, and regulatory environments, bringing a pragmatic understanding of how technical advice is tested, scrutinised, and ultimately acted upon.​This ensures advice is not only technically robust, but clear, defensible, and framed to support confidence, accountability, and sound decision-making.
Founder & Principal Adviser
André Cocuccio is a senior maritime professional with over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of operational practice, regulation, and emerging technology. His career spans leadership roles in both industry and public authorities, alongside advisory appointments and applied innovation work. This breadth of experience gives him a clear understanding of how complex technical issues are assessed, challenged, and translated into real-world decisions.
André holds an Engineering honours degree and a Masters degree in Oceanography. He is a Chartered Marine Technologist (CMarTech), a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (FIMarEST), and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute (AFNI).
Who We Support
ClearSeas Maritime is engaged when organisations are navigating complex, regulated maritime systems and require clarity across safety, evidence, regulation, and long-term system change.
Public
Authorities and Agencies
Ports, Harbours
and
Infrastructure
Regulatory and Oversight
Bodies
Shipowners and Maritime Operators
Boards and Executive Leadership
Offshore Energy and Marine Technology
Across these organisations, ClearSeas Maritime is engaged when clarity, assurance, and defensible judgement matter — particularly where complex technical evidence, regulatory accountability, and operational realities must be brought together to support confident decision-making.
Our Focus
ClearSeas Maritime’s advisory focus reflects the types of decision support most commonly sought by organisations operating in complex, regulated maritime environments. These focus areas describe how support is provided, rather than specific services, and are shaped by the need for clarity, assurance, and defensible judgement in safety-critical contexts.
Our Engagements
ClearSeas Maritime is typically engaged where organisations are navigating complex, regulated maritime systems and facing decisions that carry safety, regulatory, operational, or public consequence. These engagements often arise where:
Independent assurance is required
Offshore or port development is proposed
Regulatory exposure must be understood
System interactions are unclear
Complex evidence must be interpreted
Future capability affects current operations
These engagements draw on deep domain expertise across maritime safety, regulation and governance, maritime evidence and ocean data, and the operation of complex maritime systems—ensuring advice is technically robust, defensible, and grounded in real-world practice.
Our Expertise
ClearSeas Maritime’s advisory work is underpinned by deep domain expertise across maritime evidence and ocean data, maritime safety, regulation and governance, and the operation and evolution of complex maritime systems. This expertise enables clear, evidence-led advice that is technically robust, defensible, and grounded in real-world maritime practice.
Track Record
This track record reflects senior roles held across government, industry, regulation, and independent advisory practice, spanning safety of navigation, maritime evidence, and system-level decision-making.
2025
Independent maritime advisory
Founder, Director, Adviser
ClearSeas Maritime; 2026 to Present
2022
Maritime science, technology & innovation
Partner, Director, Consultant
MSE International; 2024 to Present
2014
Maritime safety, risk & assurance
UK Director, Consultant
Marico Marine; 2018 to 2024
Hydrography, seabed mapping & ocean data
Director, Trustee
The Hydrographic Society UK; 2012 to 2014
2010
2026
Maritime science, technology & innovation
Director, Consultant
MSE Commercial; 2025 to Present
2024
Maritime sector governance & policy advocacy
Director (Ports)
Society of Maritime Industries; 2022 to 2024
2018
Safety of navigation & maritime regulation
Director (Navigation Safety)
Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA); 2014 to 2018
2012
National hydrographic survey service
Programme Director
UK Civil Hydrography Programme, Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA); 2010 to 2014
Contact
For a confidential and exploratory discussion, get in touch:
C L E A R S E A S M A R I T I M E
Southampton
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 7511 755243
