Ocean Navitas Ltd (navitas is Latin for ‘energy’) was incorporated in May 2006 by experienced engineers, businessmen and sailing enthusiasts David Hunt, James McCague and Simon Condry.

After 18 months of research into the field of renewable energy, instigated by James McCague, it was concluded that energy extraction from waves and swells is the most efficient way of extracting free energy from our planet, and that existing methods of drawing on this source of power were flawed due to their inherent inefficiency.

It was also established that if, in the current political climate, a device were to be created from a commercial viewpoint that overcame existing design flaws, and be of a physical scale that did not require massive investment that this would bring significant commercial opportunities.

To this end, design commenced on the Aegir Dynamo™ and has now been completed, patented, and computer modeled.

Further to this a working bench test model has been built and successfully tested in our own mini wave flume to prove the concept and principle.

Testing and commercialisation sites have been identified at NaREC (Northumberland), EMEC (Orkneys) and WaveHub (Cornwall), and contact has been established with industry authorities such as The Dti, PERA and PMSS for financial assistance to evolve the company.