The Ocean Is Critical Infrastructure
We apply enterprise risk management, artificial intelligence, and continuous monitoring to the most important system on Earth
Ocean Risk Intelligence Platform™
A single environment for tracking, quantifying, and monitoring ocean risk — built on the same register-and-control model institutions already run. Two modules lead the build: the Ocean Risk Register, for tracking and scoring exposure, and the FAIR exposure calculator, for putting a defensible dollar figure on it. Both are available now as a guided walkthrough.
IN DEVELOPMENT • LAUNCHING 2026
Ocean Risk Register™
The System of Record for Ocean Risk
The Ocean Risk Register serves as the central repository for identifying, documenting, assessing, and managing ocean-related risks across organizations, regions, industries, and ecosystems.
WALKTHROUGH ON REQUEST
Ocean Resilience Index™
Measuring the Capacity to Adapt and Recover
The Ocean Resilience Index provides a quantitative assessment of resilience across geographic regions, industries, infrastructure systems, and ecosystems.
PLANNED
Ocean FAIR Calculator™
Quantifying Ocean Risk in Financial Terms
Based on FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) principles, the Ocean FAIR Calculator translates ocean-related risks into measurable economic and financial exposure.
WALKTHROUGH ON REQUEST
Ocean Control Framework™
Managing Controls Across Ocean Systems
The Ocean Control Framework provides a structured approach for implementing and managing preventive, detective, corrective, and resilience controls across ocean-related operations and programs.
PLANNED
Ocean Early Warning System™
Detecting Emerging Risks Before They Become Crises
The Ocean Early Warning System continuously monitors ocean conditions, environmental indicators, infrastructure status, and emerging threats to provide actionable intelligence before impacts occur.
RESEARCH
Ocean Digital Twin™
Simulating the Future Before It Happens
The Ocean Digital Twin creates a dynamic virtual representation of ocean systems, infrastructure, ecosystems, and human activities.
RESEARCH
The Ocean Risk Intelligence Framework™
The Books
The Ocean Doesn’t Care About Politics
The Ocean Doesn’t Care About Politics
The Ocean Doesn’t Care About Politics
Examines the rapidly growing sargassum crisis, exploring reef collapse, failing cleanup systems, ocean biotechnology, and the intersection of marine ecosystems with economics and security.
The Ocean Is Critical Infrastructure
The Ocean Doesn’t Care About Politics
The Ocean Doesn’t Care About Politics
Reveals how risk management, resilience, and governance can protect the planet’s most important system—and the economies, communities, industries, and nations that depend on it.
Founder
Mike Hawkins
FOUNDER · ENTERPRISE RISK PRACTITIONER · RESCUE DIVER · ADVENTURE ATHLETE • AUTHOR
Mike has spent four decades in two worlds that rarely meet — advising federal agencies, global corporations, banks, and energy companies on governance, risk, and resilience, and exploring the ocean firsthand as a rescue diver and adventure athlete. Ocean Risk Intelligence is the discipline he built where those worlds converge: the rigor institutions use to protect everything else, applied to the system underneath all of it.
"We protect our networks, our balance sheets, and our power grids with real rigor. The one system all of them depend on — the ocean — we mostly leave to chance.