Learn more about the founding of Clear Blue Sea and our mission through an SDVoyager interview with our Executive Director, Susie Baer. Click the button to see the full story.Read More

KPBS visited Clear Blue Sea at our USD Mini FRED Demo Day in Mission Bay. The USD team demonstrated enhanced capabilities of data communication and autonomous navigation on their 6-foot FRED Prototype.Read More

During startup phase, Clear Blue Sea worked out of our homes, garages, driveways, and on college campuses to design and develop our first two prototypes of our Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris (FRED). Now that we are building a 16-foot marine robot prototype we call “FRED Jr.”, we needed a larger collaborative space for ourRead More

Zach Sourwine, USD Engineering student, explains his 2019 summer project with Clear Blue Sea. The focus was designing and developing a small-scale FRED – the Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris.Read More

Two Clear Blue Sea senior engineering design teams demonstrated their Mini FRED robot designs at a joint demo day. The “Plastic Pirates” from SDSU built their robot prototype to look like the Clear Blue Sea FRED Conceptual model, while the “Trashy Pelicans” and “FRED’s Angels” designed their robot to optimize collection function. On a rainyRead More

Clear Blue Sea’s USD Senior Design Team 2018-19, sponsored by Clarity Design, won an engineering prize for their senior design project. The judging panel was impressed with the depth and breadth of work the team accomplished over the semester.Read More

Morgan Stanley awarded first prize of $75,000 to Clear Blue Sea for their 2019 Giving Circle Award for 2019. Susie Baer, Executive Director of Clear Blue Sea, attended the ceremony in Pebble Beach to receive the award.Read More

Clear Blue Sea is one of six startups selected for the San Diego Blue Tech Incubator, sponsored by the City of San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dentons Law Office, and The Maritime Alliance. Mayor Faulconer attended the opening ceremony of the Blue Tech Incubator and supports the development of ocean-focused startup companies.Read More