Why are there Racing Submarines at the UDT show in London this week ?

Sub-Racing Series bring racing submarine to the Undersea Defence Technology show.

The Sub-Racing Series will be attending the Undersea Defence Technology show for the first time, on stand 1032 at the ExCel Centre in London from 9-11 April 2024 where you can chat to the team from Warwick University about their prototype human-powered racing submarine.


The Sub-Racing Series encourages collaborative teams to design and build small, human powered racing submarines in a challenging time-limited project. Sub-Racing Series wants to involve more young people 'into undersea technologies'. In addition to enthusiastically solving the technical and design problems, their pilots need the fitness, energy and dedication to face the challenges of competing in the proving ground of racing in the open ocean.
These are all highly individual 'prototypes', crafted by young engineers and technicians with backgrounds in marine science, engineering and technology, eager to gain practical experience alongside their theoretical studies of machines which operate in sea water.


Visitors to stand 1032 will be able to examine the latest human-powered submarine from the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick and talk with some of the team of MEng students who designed and crafted it. They are entering the European International Submarine Races at the QinetiQ Ocean Basin in Gosport in June, where they hope to qualify for the Gran Canaria Invitational in September in the Canary Islands.


At the Gran Canaria Invitational, up to six teams are competing in head-to-head races around a course in open water. The teams and their pilot will complete real-world proving in sea water, then the pilots face more difficult navigation and control challenges than are found in the Ocean Basin in Gosport. The pilots will have to contend with local tides and currents, and may even encounter local marine life such as rays, angel sharks or turtles.


You can also meet one of the founders of the Sub-Racing Series, Matt Silver-Vallance, when he gives an insight into the value of the Series to marine science, engineering and technology companies, and the directions that the Series are looking at for the future. You can meet him at 1100hrs on Thursday 11th April in the DisTec Theatre at the Undersea Defence Technology show

Notes for Editors

The Submarine Racing Series aims to 'build the connection', to generate the feeling and emotions of exploring undersea environment, and to support future scientific research in the oceans.
Following on from a successful 'Proof of Concept' event in 2023, the Race Director, Professor William Megill of the University of Rhein-Wahl in Germany has planned a more ambitious event for 15-22nd September 2024, in the town of Arinaga, on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
The location in Arinaga proved to be excellent for the submarine racing with good visibility, an excellent racing 'arena', and good access from the shore. The Sub Racing Series want to build on the experience gained in 2023 and expand the number of teams that take part.
The event is expected to include between 4 and 6 amateur teams of University students, from the UK, Europe and possibly Canada, with a total of about 70-100 participants taking part or supporting the event.

Video of racing submarines on You-Tube at

Press Contact
Brian Goldthorpe
Head of Marketing
Sub-Racing Series
Briang@subracingseries.com
Phone/Whatsapp: 0034 699 721 584

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1. A human-powered racing submarine at the 2023 event.
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2. All the submarines are hand-built prototypes, constructed by enthusiastic teams of Masters students.
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3. One of the submarines involved in the first head to head underwater races.
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Sub-Racing Series
Calle Arenque 39
Playa de Arinaga,
Aguimes,
Gran Canaria 35118,
Spain

Press Contact
Brian Goldthorpe
Head of Marketing
Sub-Racing Series
Briang@subracingseries.com
Phone/Whatsapp: 0034 699 721 584

The Sub-Racing Series is the culmination of over twenty years of experimental submarine design, build and racing. Each boat is designed and built between September and May, and in that time the teams apply their theoretical knowledge of hydrodynamics, buoyancy, displacement, and physics, as well as the practical materials management and construction skills needed to produce a working boat.

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