Metocean Data you can trust

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A one-stop-shop for accurate weather, wave and ocean data

High quality scientific data at your fingertips

Our scientists produce high-resolution tidal models in-house and select meteorological and oceanographic datasets from official and academic sources. We provide the most accurate and comprehensive suite of metocean data available to the maritime industry.

Are you an application developer for commercial shipping?

We make integration easy for you.

Easy access:

  • All the metocean data you need in one place
  • Forecast, nowcast and historical
  • Point, area and web map services
  • Fast and easy integration with our APIs
  • Reliable, high capacity service with SLA's

Accurate data means better outcomes for your customers.

Help them:

  • Reduce their fuel consumption
  • Lower their emissions
  • Slash their costs
  • Analyse and benchmark performance

Are you a sailor who wants to win races?

 Ocean and coastal sailors:

  • Use our gribs in your favourite software
  • Make confident routing decisions based on better data
  • Abandon the rhumbline without fear!

 Dinghy and high performance:

  • Understand currents across the course in high detail
  • Easy to use online map of currents

Why Tidetech?

There are plenty of services that provide weather data. This is why we are different:

  • We provide high quality tidal current data, not available elsewhere. Our scientists have been pre-eminent researchers in modelling coastal seas for many years. They have a deep understanding of the processes involved, a fundamental grasp of the mathematics that underpin the models and a lifetime of experience in developing and running them to produce accurate results.
  • We obtain third party data from government and academic sources, but we don't just put it out there. We use our scientific expertise to decide on which to use by reviewing published research on accuracy. We select the best performing data so you don't have to. 
  • Our data scientists are experts in integration, providing all products in well known formats to make using our API straightforward. We can also provide custom formats to meet your existing specification.
  • We deliver everything through our world class, custom built data infrastructure, ensuring a fast, consistent and reliable service.

Choose Tidetech because we have:

  • Unique high resolution current data
  • Scientifically validated products from external sources
  • All the metocean products you need in one place
  • Easy to integrate API's
  • Enterprise grade data services with guaranteed service levels

 

Our Story 

 

Meet our team

We are oceanographers, meteorologists, data and systems specialists and sailors

The Management team

Rog Proctor

Dr Roger Proctor

Science Director and Co-Founder

Roger was the Director of the Australian Ocean Data Network, hosted by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), an Australian government research infrastructure program, between 2008 and 2018. Prior to joining IMOS he was based in the UK as Program Leader for the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (now National Oceanography Centre) strategic research program “Modelling and Observation Systems for Coastal Seas”. In this role he also acted as consultant to the British Olympic Sailing Team for the Olympics between 1988 and 2004. He holds a PhD from Liverpool University, UK and has authored more than 100 publications and reports. Roger has always had the belief that research products, generally paid for by taxpayers, have value to a much wider range of users than just the research community, and feels Tidetech is an excellent vehicle to enable this.

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Penny Haire

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Penny had a long career in the Maritime industry, as a sail trainer and Chief Instructor for the Royal Yachting Association before founding Tidetech with Roger in 2008. Having grown up near Liverpool UK which has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, she has always been fascinated by tides. Her passion is to be able to make scientific research about weather and oceanography more accessible and usable for everyone in the maritime world and for Tidetech's data to be used to help reduce harmful emissions from shipping.