We specialize in marine hydrodynamics and mooring design for a range of applications, including oceanography, marine energy, and aquaculture.
In addition to providing consulting services to ocean industries, we have created the marine dynamic analysis software ProteusDS. Key applications of the software include floating tidal energy platforms, fish farms, WECs, and oceanographic moorings. DSA Ocean also support and license the seakeeping & maneuvering software ShipMo3D.
While at university Ryan and Dean were working within the Subsea Robotics Laboratory. Here, the DSA Ocean co-founders developed numerical models of flexible marine structures (risers, cables) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Through their research, Ryan and Dean developed the basis of DSA Ocean’s ProteusDS simulation software. In the summer of 2006 Dynamic Systems Analysis Ltd. (now DSA Ocean) was founded with the mission to commercialize the software Ryan and Dean had been working with, and provide consulting services to marine industries.
DSA Ocean maintains a close working relationship with Dr. Buckham and other researchers at UVic. DSA Ocean’s software is used in education and research settings at leading research organizations around the world.
Over the past decade and a half, ProteusDS has developed into a full-featured hydrodynamic, mechanical and marine dynamic analysis software package. This customizable, validated, and efficient software is the heart of DSA Ocean’s business.
DSA Ocean has been propelled forward by its close working relationships with its customers. Our business has grown organically through word-of-mouth and considerate collaboration with our suppliers and clients.
DSA Ocean works with companies all over the world in a wide range of marine industries such as:
• Aquaculture and fisheries (net cage analysis, mooring)
• Defence (launch and recovery, towed arrays, submarines)
• Marine renewable energy (wave & tidal energy, floating wind, marine operations)
• Naval architecture ( seakeeping, towing, manoeuvring, winches, piles)
• Ocean technology (buoys, moorings, oceanography, towed bodies, ROVs, AUVs)
• Offshore & Subsea (moorings, pipelines, risers, floating structures, installation analysis)
ProteusDS is a simulation tool relied on by marine technicians, oceanographers, naval architects, and engineers to assess the motion of marine structures and equipment. Use hydrodynamic and finite-element models to analyze buoys, moorings, vessels, and structures in wind, current, and waves. Purpose-built toolsets make it easy to evaluate oceanographic and fish farm mooring designs.