Deep Blue Exploration
A Global Subsea Discovery Group

Capital that surfaces what history left below.

Deep Blue Exploration a global blue ocean finance company. It is the parent company behind Wrecks & Riches - the licensed shipwreck recovery, media, and exhibition franchise. Our mandate: identify ocean opportunity, work with government and key stakeholders, execute world-class salvage and media projects, and deliver durable franchise economics, region by region.

Investor Materials The Opportunity
Active License Area
Caribbean
Pipeline
2nd Region
Top-Target Value
$100M+
Distribution Footprint
4 Continents

The parent company behind one franchise: Wrecks & Riches.

Subsea recovery is a small, expert-led industry where capital, technical execution, and government access all need to be in the same room. Deep Blue Exploration assembles those rooms - region by region - and builds the media, exhibition, and franchise rights around each one.

1

License-led, region by region.

We only operate where a sovereign government has granted a defined recovery license. That makes everything else - finance, insurance, scientific access - solvable.

2

Multi-revenue franchises.

Each region produces three economic outputs: physical recovery (artifacts), media (television and streaming), and exhibition (touring and permanent). The three reinforce each other.

3

Operator-grade execution.

Salvage by the team behind the Mary Rose and the VOC Rooswijk. Production by the team behind one of cable's longest-running franchises. Distribution already contracted.

4

Exit optionality.

Per region: trade sale of physical recoveries, long-tail format and library rights, exhibition partner royalties, and IP across digital community and games.

The ocean is 71% of the planet.
It's not 71% of the index.

Three million documented shipwrecks worldwide by UNESCO's estimate. A fraction have been mapped; a vanishing fraction have been recovered under a credible license. We pick the ones with the asset, the access, and the audience.

UNESCO Estimate
3M+
Documented shipwrecks worldwide. A market measured in coastlines, not quarters.
Active License Areas
1 → 5
Active in the Caribbean. Targeting a five-region portfolio over the next decade.
First-Region Top Target
$100M+
Estimated recovery value for the primary target in our southeastern Caribbean license.
Distribution Markets
4 / 5
Continents covered by signed and pending distribution agreements for the first franchise.

The operators behind the recoveries.

A board of subsea, finance, media, and legal operators with deep international experience - across capital markets, salvage, documentary media, and global exhibition.

Allan Watson
Executive Chairman
Allan Watson

Founder of Broken Mast Productions. Specializes in subsurface adventure, exploration media, and entertainment ideation. Prior: Goldman Sachs (London / NY); Northern Trust (London).

Adam Janikowski
Chief Executive Officer
Adam Janikowski

20 years of investment-banking experience advising resource companies globally. SSI Dive Global Ambassador. Recently produced a documentary on Hong Kong's oyster reefs.

Peter Magowan
Maritime & Dives
Peter Magowan

Salvage and dive expert. Led the salvage of the VOC Rooswijk. Director of Diving for the recovery of King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose.

Sheldon Trainor
Director / Financing
Sheldon Trainor

Investment banker - Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch. Founded PacBridge multi-family office, Hong Kong. Board roles include Foxconn FIT and BitDeer Tech Inc.

Ven Tan
General Counsel
Ven Tan

30+ years of legal experience in London, New York, and Hong Kong. Former partner at Coudert Brothers and Morrison & Foerster. Capital markets and corporate transactions specialist.

Emelda Wong
Head of Sponsorship
Emelda Wong

20 years in entertainment - media, production, marketing, and communications across News Corp, Time Warner, and Las Vegas Sands. Leads philanthropic activity for the firm.

Capital that compounds with every recovery.

A confidential information memorandum, audited operational plan, and the full investor deck are available for accredited investors and qualified corporate partners. Replies typically within 48 hours.

01

Capital efficiency

Capital is allocated to licensed, audited recovery work, with media and exhibition rights stacking above each operation as additional revenue.

02

Distribution before extraction

Signed and pending distribution agreements across UK, Ireland, Benelux, and North America before principal photography begins.

03

Franchise economics

Per-region franchise IP is wholly-owned: format rights, exhibition royalties, digital community, and merchandising afterlife.

04

Optionality on exit

Recoveries, library, exhibition partner royalties, and digital IP can each be sold, licensed, or rolled into a successor platform.

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