SOLUTION / PUBLIC SOURCE RECORD
OceanFront’s Natural Seabed clean-up solution protects marine ecosystems
- Published 31 January 2025; updated 23 March 2026; estimated reading time 2 minutes. Listed as available in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania under Maritime (ship design/equipment), Aquaculture and fisheries, and Circular economy.
- OceanFront’s Natural Seabed™ service is designed to remove marine debris and lost fishing gear without divers. Its eSEA eXpiator equipment is described as able to clear small and large objects, including wrecks. The page reports that Natural Seabed removed over 100 tonnes of marine waste from the inner Oslofjord and 84 tonnes from Store Lungegårdsvann in Bergen.
- Challenge context: the article cites up to 11 million tonnes of plastic and other waste entering oceans each year, with 94% ending up on the seabed. It says discarded fishing gear can continue catching fish (“ghost fishing”) and harm marine ecosystems.
- OceanFront says it registers and logs recovered debris, creating a project-end inventory and knowledge base. It says this information supports public education and behaviour change. Cleaner harbour basins may also gain water depth and experience fewer objects entering propellers, reducing costs and delays. The page also mentions positive media coverage for customers’ cleanup work.
- Market/policy context: the Basel Convention on plastic waste is said to have 180 signatories. The page cites an ocean-cleanup technology market value of USD 1.37 billion in 2023, projected to grow 10.2% annually to USD 2.19 billion by 2030. OceanFront says the solution can be mobilized to vessels worldwide; target customers include ports, municipalities, NGOs, government agencies, offshore-energy companies and private quay owners.
- Testimonials in the two-slide carousel: Håkon Vikøren, responsible for plastics and marine litter at Oslo Municipality, says the inner Oslofjord campaign removed over 100,000 kg of marine debris including 1,001 tyres, and credits Natural Seabed and project collaboration with Oslo Harbour and the Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund. Elena Rusetskaya of Cleaner Port Bergen, Bergen Municipality, describes the OceanFront collaboration as successful, transparent and consistently communicative.
- Case study links: NaturalSeabed reference projects, The Natural Seabed Story and The Natural Seabed Development.
- Linked to SDG 11, Sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 14, Life below water, through cleaning urban waterfronts and removing seabed waste/ghost gear.
- Contact: Magnus Stranden, Co-founder & Business Developer, magnus.stranden@oceanfront.no. Phone number is behind a collapsed reveal control. Company: OCEANFRONT AS, Kronullveien 1, 6521 Kristiansund, Norway; oceanfront.no/en/.