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ADVANCING ENGINEERING SKILLS THROUGH 2P/H-2025

The competition to design a Hybrid-Powered Racing Submarine will challenge teams to make engineering and design trade-offs.  It will develop their skills in many ways:

  • Encourage technological innovation in hydrodynamics, propulsion systems, energy efficiency, and race strategy within the marine engineering community.
  • Develop marine engineering knowledge and skills among the participants and attract new talent into the sector.
  • Expose participants to additional ‘soft’ skills such as team-working, communication and public engagement, as they promote their technology-driven underwater racing plans.

We hope that by attracting talented teams from academia, industry, and independent design teams that they will help shape the future of the sport of submarine racing.  By  defining the new class of hybrid-powered submarines we want to integrate the human athlete with cutting edge electric propulsion in a totally unique racing environment.

In this first round of the competition where it is about creating a practical workable design rather than physical prototype development, competition 2P/H 2025 will maximize global participation and encourage bold, innovative ideas without manufacturing constraints. The next round of competition (2P/H 2026) will focus on converting these designs into race-worthy submarines.

 June 22-27 in 2025 – International Submarine Races ISR18 – Washington D.C.  USA

In July 2025 the International Submarine Races will be organised by the Foundation for Underwater Research & Education (FURE) at the David Taylor Model Basin in the Carderock Division of the US Naval Surface Warfare Centre Washington DC.

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INVESTING BACK INTO OCEAN SCIENCE

Our ultimate goal is to reinvest into projects which extend or refine Ocean Science Models.

We have identified that localised inshore current data is vital for effective submarine racing, but is simply not available.   We have therefore identified this as our initial research area.

From the experience and interest gained, this will in the future power more oceanic research in the coastal oceans.

THE OCEAN, THE LAND AND THE ATMOSPHERE

We think that too often, the only stories that circulate about the ocean are based on the ‘doom and gloom’ scenarios, or the rare and tragic accidents about the dangers of the oceans.  The ocean is seen by many as a complex, hostile and unmanageable environment and they take easier paths for education, work and recreation.

To get more people engaged with the oceans we want the submarine racing to act as a hook to get more people to ‘dive into’ the details.  Many young people know more about their mobile phones than they do about the oceans.