Exploring the world's largest natural resource requires impeccable values
Exploration is more than an idea — it is action. We pursue what lies beneath the surface with curiosity, discipline, and integrity, combining innovation, engineering, and fieldwork to recover what has been overlooked, forgotten, or never fully understood. Every mission begins with a question and is carried forward through careful planning and respect for the environments we enter.
We believe meaningful discovery carries responsibility. What we search for and recover must be documented, understood, and handled with care. Through collaboration and transparency, we aim to contribute knowledge, preserve history, and demonstrate that curiosity, when paired with integrity, creates lasting value.
Innovation &
Creativity
Less than 10% of the world’s oceans have been explored, we believe in building the necessary tools to allow us to answer difficult questions.
Curiosity
Curiosity drives us to ask better questions, go further, and seek what others overlook.
Integrity
Integrity guides every decision we make, ensuring our work is honest, transparent, and worthy of trust.
Every Move Carries Consequence.
A Letter from the Founder -
Global Xploration was built around a simple conviction: exploration still matters. Even in an age of satellites and supercomputers, vast portions of our oceans remain unmapped and not fully understood. The frontier has not disappeared — it has simply moved deeper.
I believe the drive to explore is part of how we are made — created with curiosity and entrusted with responsibility. Discovery, when done with integrity, is not about conquest, but stewardship.
We design and engineer tools for to enable our search and recovery efforts, building systems that operate where uncertainty is real and discipline matters. We also invest in and collaborate with operators and founders who share our commitment to responsible risk and meaningful work. Exploration is not a solo pursuit — it is strengthened by a community that looks out for one another.
This is long-horizon work. Patient. Technical. Purposeful.
At its core, Global Xploration exists to search with discipline, recover with integrity, and build capability that endures — carried out with humility before God.
If you believe exploration is still worth doing — and worth doing well — you are already part of the journey.
— Cooper Wade, PhD, MEng, MBA-SE
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