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Skerry Marine Systems
British developer of autonomous surface and subsea vessels for offshore energy, hydrographic survey and maritime security.
Tomas Aldridge
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Tomas Aldridge co-founded Skerry and leads engineering across both vessel platforms and the Helm software stack. He previously built guidance and control systems for subsea intervention at Saab Seaeye.
He led the development of Skerry's collision-avoidance model, which resolves COLREGs obligations as explicit constraints rather than learned behaviour — the design decision that underpinned the company's type approval submission.
Approved quote
“A vessel that cannot explain why it turned is a vessel no regulator will certify. Explainability was an engineering requirement for us from the first line of code.”
Tomas Aldridge, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder