Maritime intelligence for complex decisions

Clarity in a complex maritime and regulatory world.

ClearSeas Maritime provides senior, independent insight to help organisations navigate complexity, clarify risk, and make robust decisions in a rapidly evolving maritime domain.

The maritime sector is entering a period of rapid change, shaped by technological innovation, the energy transition, and evolving environmental regulation. ClearSeas Maritime operates at this intersection, translating advanced science, technology, and policy into trusted, operationally credible, and commercially viable maritime capability.

About

ClearSeas Maritime is the independent advisory practice from maritime technologist André Cocuccio, providing evidence-led support for complex, high-consequence decision-making across the maritime domain. ClearSeas Maritime works with organisations operating at the intersection of advanced science, emerging technology, operational risk and regulatory accountability. Its focus is on translating technical, policy and operational complexity into clear, credible guidance for the safe, contemporary and sustainable use of sea space.

With experience spanning maritime assurance, ports, offshore development, ocean data acquisition, maritime domain awareness, technology adoption and maritime strategy, ClearSeas Maritime helps clients understand risk, meet expectations and make operationally credible decisions in complex or uncertain environments.

ClearSeas Maritime operates on a senior-led, principal-delivered model, with André personally involved in each engagement.

Founder & Managing Director

André Cocuccio is a maritime professional with over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of operational practice, regulation, and emerging technology. His career spans senior 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 and solutions.

André holds a BEng (Hons) degree and a MSc 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).

Clients

ClearSeas Maritime works with organisations operating across the maritime domain and who operate in complex environments where safety, regulation, operational realities, and long-term system change must be carefully balanced.

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

Approach

ClearSeas Maritime provides independent decision support for organisations working in complex maritime environments. Our focus areas describe the types of challenges we help organisations address. They reflect situations where technical evidence, operational understanding, and regulatory context must come together to support clear and confident decisions.

Strategic Decision

Support

Senior, independent support to help leaders make informed, defensible decisions in complex marine and maritime environments. Focuses on framing strategic choices, clarifying trade-offs, and navigating uncertainty where evidence, regulatory accountability, and operational realities intersect.

Typically includes:

Framing complex or high-impact decisions
Interpreting technical and non-technical evidence
Understanding regulatory, policy, and organisational context
Supporting clear, defensible options for action

Maritime Assurance & Accountability

Senior advisory support to help organisations understand, evidence and manage safety, regulatory and operational risk in complex maritime environments. Focuses on assurance, accountability and defensible decision-making where maritime activity, emerging capability and public or regulatory scrutiny intersect.

Typically includes:

Interpreting and applying maritime regulatory frameworks
Supporting safety assurance and evidence-based justification
Advising on governance, accountability, and oversight
Operating confidently under regulatory and public scrutiny

Maritime

Futures

Strategic advisory support on maritime transformation, helping organisations navigate change driven by offshore development, emerging capability, and evolving regulatory frameworks. Focuses on future operating models, system readiness, and the safe integration of new capability into the maritime domain.

Typically includes:

Advising on offshore development and sea space management
Assessing the impact of digitalisation and emerging capability
Supporting regulatory and industry readiness
Bridging innovation, policy, and operational delivery

Advisory

Organisations typically engage ClearSeas Maritime when they face decisions with safety, regulatory, operational, or public consequences.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

Expertise

ClearSeas Maritime draws on deep expertise across maritime assurance, ocean evidence, regulation and governance, technology adoption, and the operation of complex maritime systems. This experience allows us to provide advice that is technically robust, clearly explained, and grounded in real-world maritime practice.

Maritime Evidence &

Ocean Data

Recognised expertise in hydrography, seabed mapping and ocean data, including how evidence is gathered, assessed and relied upon to support complex maritime decisions. This includes data adequacy, standards, limitations and the role of information in safety-critical, environmental and regulated contexts.

Including:

Hydrography and marine data gathering.
Maritime data standards, quality, and limitations
Evidence for safety-critical and regulatory decision-making

Maritime Assurance, Regulation & Governance

Expertise in maritime assurance, regulation and governance, focused on how safety, operational risk and regulatory accountability are understood, evidenced and managed across complex systems. This includes supporting organisations where decisions must be technically credible & operationally realistic.

Including:

Maritime assurance and operational risk
Regulatory frameworks, interpretation and application
Governance, accountability and robust decision-making

Maritime Transformation &

Future Capability

Expertise in maritime transformation and future capability, focused on how offshore development, technological change, and evolving regulatory frameworks are reshaping the use, governance, and operation of sea space, and how industry and institutions build the readiness and capability to operate safely and effectively.

Including:

Offshore development and sea space management
Emerging maritime technologies
Regulatory and industry readiness

Background

ClearSeas Maritime is underpinned by senior roles held across government, industry, regulation and independent advisory practice, spanning maritime assurance, ocean evidence, technology adoption, policy, governance and system-level decision-making.

2025

Independent maritime advisory

Founder, Managing Director

ClearSeas Maritime; 2026 to Present

2022

Maritime research, 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 governance & policy advocacy

Director (Ports)

Society of Maritime Industries; 2022 to 2024

2018

Maritime assurance, policy & regulation

Director (Navigation Safety)
Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA); 2014 to 2018

2012

UK Civil Hydrography Programme

Programme Director
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

info@clearseasmaritime.com

Maritime intelligence for complex decisions

About

Clients

ClearSeas Maritime works with organisations operating across the maritime domain and who operate in complex environments where safety, regulation, operational realities, and long-term system change must be carefully balanced.

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

Approach

Advisory

Organisations typically engage ClearSeas Maritime when they face decisions with safety, regulatory, operational, or public consequences.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

Expertise

Background

ClearSeas Maritime is underpinned by senior roles held across government, industry, regulation and independent advisory practice, spanning maritime assurance, ocean evidence, technology adoption, policy, governance and system-level decision-making.

2025

2022

2014

2010

2026

2024

2018

2012

Contact

Public
Authorities and Agencies

Ports, Harbours
and
Infrastructure

Regulatory and Oversight
Bodies