Discovery Technologies accelerates the essential transition to a green marine future by acting as a collaborative engine that shares market intelligence and cross-pollinates know-how, across marine, maritime, and adjacent sectors. By fostering specialist partnerships, the mission is to rapidly implement scalable, sustainable solutions—from advanced technologies and propulsion to recycling existing vessels—to protect the critical ocean environment.
For over three decades, our team has operated at the crossroads of marine innovation, ocean experience and high-performance sports.
In 2024 we launched Discovery Yachts with a commitment to sustainable boatbuilding and reimagined blue-water sailing.
Today, Discovery Technologies represents the next phase: a collaborative engine driving the innovation required for a more green marine future.
We launched Discovery Yachts in 2024, with a specific mission - to focus on ‘Design, Experience and Sustainability’ in ocean sailing. This includes building new Discovery models in a much more sustainable way. And upcycling existing Discovery yachts to the latest standards in blue water sailing (reDISCOVERY).
We are now embarked on the second and critical phase of our project, to bring together the best people, technology and projects to accelerate the innovation needed to achieve the - essential - transition to green marine.
We cannot be under any illusions - despite the ill-informed and high profile rhetoric of some - climate change is a reality. And in the ocean, which covers 70% of the planet, we have a life support system making up 97% of the world’s water and 95% of all space made available for life.
As David Attenborough said in the 2025 documentary, Ocean, “After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea."
The ocean is the planet's support system and humanity's greatest ally against climate catastrophe, and the world's oceans are at a crossroads. Pollution, plastics, overfishing, marine industrialisation, shipping waste, are all damaging the ocean environment. And the ocean doesn’t have a government or elected representatives to protect it.
There is a moral and commercial imperative to reverse this, and certainly not to make it worse. It is especially incumbent on those that make their living directly or indirectly from the ocean to value it, to change how we build and maintain marine vessels and infrastructure, to change how we use marine resources and to protect key habitats. To drive future growth without degrading the marine environment
This requires action as much as it requires ideas. The reality is that most of the negative human impact on the ocean is industrial, not individual.
It is up to industries to act. This requires the best people, technology and projects to collaborate, fast, to change things.
Having worked in the industries of marine and sport for decades, however, we perceive a major challenge. The big companies are often too slow or reluctant to change, and want to hang on to old, ‘safe’ ways. Smaller players don’t have the resources or reach to effect real change. Both are buffeted by cyclical forces and geopolitical turbulence.
Given what is at stake, the best ideas must win, and be implemented at scale. Now.
This is why we have set up Discovery Technologies. To learn from the best, and help accelerate ‘green marine’ initiatives and innovations - both our own and others.
Our objective is to find the sustainability synergies across these industries so we can go further, together.
Remember - it took only 12 years from its first production car for Tesla to be worth more than 50 other automotive manufacturers combined.
Ultimately, how can we best...
Let’s tell you what Discovery Technologies is not, first.
We are not a green activist group. We are not a charity. We are not an investment fund. We are not a trade publisher.
Discovery Technologies IS about market intelligence (with the emphasis, we hope, on intelligence), sharing know-how, cross pollinating insights across the diverse ecosystems of marine and maritime, and indeed from outside of marine (including automotive, aerospace, materials science, sport, etc). This is a huge ranging business - from ports to propulsion, from super tankers to surfboards. There is much more overlap between renewable energy, defence, marine conservation, aquaculture, commercial shipping, etc than is immediately obvious.
Having worked across a large part of this spectrum (and the adjacent world of high-performance sports) we are convinced that each sub-sector has something to learn from and/or to teach others. The rapid ascent/emergence of AI and autonomy, and the accelerating investments into defence and defence tech, will transform possibilities for the marine sector. The biggest threat to rapid, lasting progress is silo-isation and sector myopia. Our experience in the sports sector has demonstrated that it is bold, creative, mutually advantageous partnerships between aligned, specialist enterprises organisations and talent, which often make the most difference. Sometimes these can happen organically. Sometimes they need a matchmaker; Someone who is seeing both sides of the equation.
Innovation with truly scalable potential can come from the most unexpected sources. Regulation, Net Zero objectives, AI and younger generational demands are driving new ideas. The super yacht sector, with their big budgets and world class designers, and the high performance sports sectors, with their competitive incentives and top tier engineers, are all often leading the way with original designs and technologies.
The developments in advanced composites and materials, propulsion and energy systems, biofuels, marine vessel management, decarbonisation, etc are all exciting and some will be truly game changing. Remember - it took only 12 years from its first production car for Tesla to be worth more than 50 other automotive manufacturers combined, and before generative AI was available.
Ultimately, how can we best harness this remarkable innovation and commercial momentum to generate viable solutions alongside and whilst supporting ecological preservation?
Equally, how can we avoid the seemingly inexorable and wasteful demands of ‘progress’ - always to be building new things, discarding the old? How can we recycle, renew, upgrade instead? How can we reimagine business models and structures to achieve worthwhile goals?
We have no preconceptions. An open minded, ‘start up mentality’ is vital to be open to the possibilities and to effect lasting change. Learning and improvement will never stop.
The health of the ocean, our businesses and ultimately our planet depends on true, effective innovation and collaboration. It is the cross-pollination of ideas and expertise in a carefully curated, multi-disciplinary network, comprised of passionate practitioners, that is at the heart of the Discovery Technologies mission, and where we believe that we can together make a difference, perhaps a big one.
If this mission resonates with you, join us.
To join our network of collaborators, send us an email at discover@discovery-technologies.com
You can also find more information about Discovery Yachts at the Discovery Yachts website (www.discoveryyachts.com)
