'Real game-changers': West Cork diver launches Ireland's first commercial submarines

John Kearney has been conducting sea trials off the south-west coast in recent months, performing up to 100 dives in the waters off Cape Clear island

Testing of Ireland's first commercial submarines has been ongoing off Cape Clear since April.

As one of Ireland’s most experienced divers, he has spent much of his life underwater — now he is going deeper by launching the country’s first commercial submarines.

West Cork-based John Kearney, who has been involved in some of the most complex search and recovery dive operations off the Irish coast, says his new submersibles will be a game-changer in our ability to explore and understand our marine world, but also for search, rescue, recovery and survey operations.