Clarity in a complex maritime & 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 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 Maritime supports organisations making complex, high-consequence decisions at the intersection of technical uncertainty, operational risk, and regulatory accountability.

ClearSeas Maritime 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 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.

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 system 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

Safety, Regulation &

Assurance

Senior advisory support on maritime safety, regulation, and assurance, helping organisations understand, interpret, and meet safety of navigation obligations within complex and highly regulated environments. Focuses on assurance, accountability, and governance across safety-critical maritime systems.

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 safety, ocean and maritime data, regulation and governance, 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 navigation safety and maritime decision-making. This includes data adequacy, standards, limitations, and the role of information in safety-critical and regulated contexts.

Including:

Hydrography and Seabed Mapping
Maritime Data Standards, Quality, and Limitations
Evidence for Safety-Critical and Regulatory Decision-Making

Maritime Safety, Regulation & Governance

Extensive expertise in maritime safety, regulation, and governance, focused on how safety of navigation obligations are interpreted, implemented, evidenced, and assured in practice, and how accountability is maintained across safety-critical maritime systems within complex, highly regulated environments.

Including:

Safety of Navigation and System Assurance
Regulatory Frameworks: Interpretation and Application
Governance, Accountability, and Compliance

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 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

info@clearseasmaritime.com

Clarity in a complex maritime & regulatory world.

About

Clients

ClearSeas Maritime works with organisations operating across the maritime system 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 safety of navigation, maritime evidence, 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