Ocean Assist
The regenerative, blue finance reinvestment portfolio for the superyacht industry
What is Ocean Assist?
Water Revolution Foundation’s blue investment mechanism for ocean conservation that promotes a new path to nurturing ocean – and human – vitality.
By prioritising projects and adopting scientific tools that are urgently needed to protect the oceans, the superyacht community can maximise financial and non-financial resources to support nature-based solutions and aid the global effort to mitigate ecological impacts: leading the way towards net-zero, empowered to reach nature-positivity.
This collective and traceable approach includes coordination, shared structural commitment, and guidance by leading scientists in the field. It enables the yachting community to support and measure conservation actions, utilise their fleet as a force for positive change, implement sustainable practices, promote innovative ocean-zoning policy, and as such become true ocean stewards.


Ocean Assist: a blue investment portfolio
Going beyond an offsetting mechanism, the Ocean Assist marine conservation portfolio offers transformative investment for protecting ocean values, safeguarding ocean use for generations to come.
Abiding by the RINA-verified Ocean Assist standard, an independent scientific advisory board composed of renowned ocean scientists curates the portfolio by identifying the projects eligible to receive periodic investments: criteria include maximum impact in preserving the oceans and proven eligibility to offset emissions by issuing Regenerative Contribution Units. Each project’s progress is then tracked minutiously and results fed back to the yachting community via Water Revolution Foundation for accountability, adoption and implementation to align yachting with nature, and as such lead by example in the blue economy.
This structured approach enables the integration of financial support for ocean conservation into a business proposition & an investment aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 6, 13, 14 and 15.
Invest in Ocean Assist Units
“Integrating regenerative investment into our businesses’ value propositions is the way to preserve a future for all” – Dr Vienna Eleuteri, Project Lead, Ocean Assist.
Investing in Ocean Assist Units provides the most reliably-known voluntary climate contribution on the market: integrating it into our business models in 2025 is future-proofing for employees, clients, and lives in the ocean.
Each Ocean Assist Unit combines 1t of CO2 in the form of tradeable carbon credits with 1t of CO2 as Regenerative Contribution Units: 1 unit repairing the equivalent of 2t of CO2 emitted, protecting biodiversity directly linked to the yachting industry’s supply chain.
No greenwashing. Measured reporting. Real regeneration.

Sustainability
The practice of meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, guided by the interconnected principles of environmental protection, social equity and economic stability.
Blue Finance
Financial mechanisms and investments aimed at supporting the sustainable use and conservation of ocean and marine resources, often tied to the broader concept of the “blue economy.” It includes funding for projects like marine ecosystem restoration, reducing ocean pollution, sustainable fisheries, and renewable energy from oceans.
Regenerative
Processes or activities that restore, renew, or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable and resilient systems. Regenerative practices aim to enhance the health and vitality of ecosystems, communities, and economies by focusing on renewal and net-positive impact, going beyond sustainability and offsetting.
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Key concepts
If AI can speak to whales in 2025… we want to speak the same language as you!
Here are some key concepts to ease your dive into the Ocean Assist Programme, from reminders of sustainability’s definition to debunking big concepts such as the Sustainable Development Goals.
Are you ready to move beyond compensation and towards contribution?

Next steps
With the first release of Ocean Assist Units announced mid-May 2025, we are now committed to guiding the industry, after which calls for more projects will be launched.
Leading industry members and esteemed ocean conservation scientists gathered in May 2023 in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss the way forward for safeguarding the health of our precious seas. The outcome: a mandate from the yachting industry to commit to sector-wide, structural reinvestment in our oceans in addition to mitigation.
Stay informed as we finalise the development of Ocean Assist and begin to implement structural reinvestment for the yachting community to make a collective commitment to ocean conservation.