PLOCAN Glider School, first Asian accepted

Shanjeevan Amalanathan, a community innovator with us, co-founder of the ocean venture OceanBiome and the maker of the underwater glider, became the first Asian accepted onto the Glider School programme at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, selected from a large international field.

It took three years. He came to us in Batticaloa, built an underwater glider, saw it named in Parliament, co-founded an ocean venture, and gained a place on a specialist European ocean-technology programme.