Professor John Kemp, inventor and founder of OWEL visited the department today (10 July) to meet with the Surrey-OWEL research team (Hamid Alemi Ardakani, Matt Turner, and Tom Bridges).  He gave a history of research into OWEL and talked about some of the open problems in ocean wave energy harvesting using the OWEL configuration. Prof Kemp was Chairman of the Board of OWEL (Ocean Wave Energy Ltd), and before starting OWEL was a professor of navigation.  He is a Fellow and Gold Medallist of the Royal Institute of Navigation and a Fellow of the Nautical Institute.