Bayonet Ocean Vehicles
Bayonet Ocean Vehicles manufactures a series of amphibious tracked vehicles that can perform numerous tasks including transitioning from deep ocean into the surf zone and onto the beach, making them a powerful tool for operators working in multiple marine environments.
We specialize in working in the surf zone, one of the toughest environments in the ocean and being the only commercially available tracked vehicles designed to work in this environment, we offer a platform that can work where ROVs, AUVs and USVs all cannot.
Bayonet Ocean Vehicles builds all their vehicles on the OPENSEA platform from Greensea Systems providing our vehicles the most stable and adaptable operating system in marine robotics. This collaboration gives a Bayonet vehicle owner access to important capabilities such as precise navigation, vehicle autonomy, remote operation, component and payload integration not currently offered by anyone else in the tracked vehicle market.
Management and Engineering
Ben Kinnaman
Ben Kinnaman is CEO and President of Greensea Systems, Inc., Armach Robotics, Inc., and Bayonet Ocean Vehicles, Inc. With a B.S. in Physics and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in control and robotics, from…
Nick Hartman
Nick began his career in the ocean robotics industry as a Mechanical Engineer doing product development with Remote Ocean Systems out of San Diego, CA…
Mike Farinella
Mike has been a Principal Investigator on US Gov’t R&D programs for 20 years. While at C-2i he was responsible for new technology development and engineering operations…
Bill Rathjen
Bill’s career has spanned a wide variety of industries, all revolving around the ocean environment including holding a BS in Marine Science…
Mike Coutts
Mike began his career in the medical device industry, where he supported process development and new product introduction of arthroscopic surgical devices…
John Theirrien
John is a 20-veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard where he specialized in helicopter aviation maintenance and as a primary quality inspector…