Richard Petters

Mr. Richard Petters, Chief Ocean Engineer, began his career as design and test engineer for Ocean Management, Inc., a pioneer manganese nodule consortium in the 1970s. Richard participated in the successful pilot mining tests in the Clarion Clipperton Zone where OMI collected over 800 tonnes of nodules. Following the nodule experience, Richard pursued a career in undersea engineering designing and testing numerous subsea vehicles and equipment. He was staff engineer for Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems for 10 years and has been an independent consultant for 25 years prior to becoming an Associate of DRT.

He has participated in several deep sea mining study projects with DRT. Richard holds an MS in Ocean Engineering from the University of Hawaii.