of the world’s aquatic animal food now comes from aquaculture, more than wild fishing for the first time.
FAO, SOFIA 2024Tourists by day.
Farmers by dawn.
OCEARA leases fleets of a rugged, dual-mode underwater scooter to resorts, village tourism sites and aquaculture companies. One scooter, two ways to earn. We design it, build it and service every unit.
- Lease from Rp 1.0M / scooter / month
- Service, spare batteries & insurance included
- Free trial before you sign
- Resort lease
- Rp 2.5M/ scooter / month
- Carries
- 20 kgself-moving catch-bag
- Head swap
- 2 minno tools needed
- Replacement
- 72 hif a unit goes down
The world now farms more seafood than it catches, but still farms by hand.
Underwater farm work is slow and exhausting, labour is costly, and young people are leaving the coast. Meanwhile, expensive machines sit idle at dawn and in the low season.
Indonesia’s rank among aquaculture producers, with 9.28 Mt of seaweed grown in 2022.
FAO · KKPa month: what a Nusa Lembongan seaweed farmer can earn working seven days a week.
Al Jazeeraof Indonesian farmers are aged under 40. Only the old people “will keep on working here.”
Sensus Pertanian 2023Underwater farm work is slow and exhausting
Workers wade, dive and haul heavy lines, nets and baskets by hand.
Aqua mode runs along the line by itself and carries the load, so one worker does more.
Labour is costly and young people are leaving
Aquaculture companies and co-ops struggle to staff harvests.
Lighter, faster, more modern work, fewer hours per harvest.
Output is capped by what people can carry
Every farm is limited by how much a person can haul.
More lines harvested or checked per day from the same farm.
Coastal farmers earn very little
Village farmers can’t afford a machine of their own.
Rp 15k-a-day access through the village, plus paid work as reef guides.
Underwater fun at sea is rare and expensive
Resort scooter rides today are pool-only at Rp 230k to 330k per 30 min.
A sea-ready, safe fleet with no purchase cost, at Rp 150k a ride.
Expensive machines sit idle
Rental gear is unused at dawn and in the low season.
One scooter, two industries, each unit works more hours.
One scooter body with two swappable heads
Swap the Ride Head for the Aqua Head in two minutes and the same machine goes from carrying tourists to carrying harvest. Switch between the Ride Head for tourists and the Aqua Head for farmers, and tap the dots to see each part.
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Select a hotspot
Tap a dot on the scooter to see what it does.
Two-Head Swap Dock
One body with two snap-on heads that swap in 2 minutes, no tools. One machine earns in two industries.
Line-Follow Mode
Clip it onto a line, net or cage and it moves along by itself at walking speed (0.3 m/s) with a 20 kg bag, while the worker keeps harvesting and loading. When the bag is full, it tows it to the boat.
Safe-Ride Guard
Fully caged propeller, motor cut-off below 5 m, a dead-man trigger and an orange buoy flag above every rider. In aqua mode, the farmer holds a float kill-switch.
Target specifications design target · est.
OCEARA in use
One scooter, two jobs. Here is how each mode looks in the water.
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Aqua mode
Clipped to the farm line, the scooter carries the harvest in a 20 kg bag while the worker keeps harvesting and loading.
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Tourist mode
Guests ride the reef in a roped zone, about Rp 150,000 per 30 minutes, under an orange buoy flag.
The only underwater scooter built for two industries
Dual-mode
Ride Head and Aqua Head swap in 2 minutes. Retail scooters are leisure-only.
Line-Follow
Runs along a line, net or cage by itself. Nobody else does this at this price.
Carries 20 kg
Tows the catch-bag to the boat, so nobody hauls heavy baskets and no machine costing hundreds of millions is needed.
All aquaculture
Seaweed, mussels, oysters and pearls, lobster and fish cages. One product for the whole industry.
Lease, don’t buy
Pay monthly from what you earn. A retail scooter costs Rp 15.6M upfront.
Service included
Maintenance, spare swap batteries, training and insurance in every lease.
Safe-Ride Guard
Caged props, 5 m cut-off, dead-man trigger, buoy flag with GPS.
Our design, made in Indonesia
Built by a partner factory in East Java. We own the moulds, so cost and local jobs stay home.
Villages share in the money
BUMDes run sites; farmers become reef guides. Outside operators don’t keep all the profit.
One fleet, two shifts a day
At a village dual-mode site, 10 leased scooters run by BUMDes staff earn at dawn with farmers, then again by day with tourists. Tap a part of the clock for details.
05:00 to 08:00
Farm shift
Aqua mode, step by step
- 1
Boat out at 5am
The village (BUMDes) or farm company brings scooters by boat to the farm line. Village farmers pay Rp 15k a day, by QRIS or cash.
- 2
Snap on & clip
The farmer goes down, snaps on the Aqua Head and clips it onto the line, net or cage edge. The tether ties to their boat or a float.
- 3
Press “Line-Follow”
It moves along at 0.3 m/s carrying the bag while the farmer harvests, seeds or checks by hand and keeps loading it.
- 4
Bag full? Tow to the boat
At the end of the line, or when the bag is full, the scooter tows it to the boat, or the farmer reels it in on the tether.
- 5
Next line, net or cage
Clip on again. Works on seaweed, mussels, oysters and pearls, lobster and fish cages.
- 6
8am: rinse & swap
Back to the beach for a fresh-water rinse and battery swap, ready for tourists at 9am. In low season, more scooters stay in aqua mode all day.
Safety features on every unit
Tourist safety needs professional maintenance, which is why we never sell tourist units. Your staff are trained and certified by us, and insurance is in every lease.
Read the safety FAQCaged propeller
Fully enclosed mesh guard.
5 m depth cut-off
Pressure sensor stops the motor below 5 metres.
Dead-man trigger
Stops instantly when released.
Orange buoy flag + GPS
Visible above every rider; tag aids anti-theft.
Roped zones
Tourist rides stay in roped reef zones with lifeguards; aqua mode only in roped farm zones at walking speed.
Trained staff, insured
Partner staff certified by OCEARA; insurance in every lease.
Lease plans with service included
We own and service the fleet; you pay a fixed monthly fee per scooter. You run the rides or the farm work with your own staff and we train them. There is no app to build and no big purchase.
Beach resorts
Star hotels with their own beach or lagoon
Rp 2.5Mper scooter / month
- Tourist mode, sold to your guests
- 12-month contract, 10+ units
- Guests pay about Rp 150k per 30 min, set by you
- Free 14-day trial of 5 scooters
Village & tourism sites
BUMDes, Pokdarwis, regional offices, ITDC estates
Rp 1.5Mper scooter / month
- Tourist rides by day, aqua mode for village farmers at dawn
- 6-month contract with seasonal pause
- Farmers pay Rp 15k a day; visitors about Rp 50k per 15 min
- Free demo day + youth guide training
Aquaculture
Seaweed, shellfish, pearl, lobster & fish-cage farms, co-ops, KKP programmes
Rp 1.0Mper scooter / month
or Rp 8.5M to buy (Rp 7.5M at 100+)
- Aqua mode every day on your own lines
- Lease: 12 months, 10+ units · Buy: 20+ units
- Purchase includes Rp 1.5M / year service plan
- Free demo on your lines + 30-day trial of 5 units
Included in every lease
- The scooters
- Spare swap batteries
- Charging rack
- Staff training & certification
- Monthly service visit
- 72-hour replacement
- Insurance
Why lease, not sell? Salt water and tourist safety need professional maintenance, and leasing gives you predictable monthly cost. We sell only aqua units, only in bulk (20+), only to aquaculture companies and government programmes. Tourist units are never sold. A one-month deposit applies; units are removed after 30 days unpaid.
Estimate your return
Move the sliders to match your site. These are estimates, and we confirm them together with you in the free trial.
Estimated monthly profitRp 55M3.6× your lease in rides
- Break-even (lease + staff)0.6 rides / scooter / day
- Yearly profitRp 660M
Net gain each monthRp 11M2.1× your lease in labour
- Worker-hours saved / month1,040 h
- Net gain per yearRp 132M
Reference scenario (est.): a resort with 10 scooters pays Rp 25M a month and sells about Rp 90M of rides at 2 rides per scooter per day, which leaves about Rp 55M profit after staff. An aquaculture company saves about Rp 2.1M of labour per scooter per month for Rp 1.0M of lease.
Free demos and trials
We run a free demo and trial first, measure the results with you, and only then do you lease or buy.
1
Free demo
We bring scooters to your beach or your farm lines.
2
Free trial
5 scooters for 14 days (resorts) or 30 days (aquaculture).
3
Measure
Rides sold, guest reviews, hours saved, kg per worker per day.
4
Lease or buy
Sign a lease, or a bulk purchase for aqua units. We service everything.
| Partner | Free offer | What we measure | Then |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beach resorts | Demo day for staff, then a 14-day trial of 5 scooters | Rides sold and guest reviews | 12-month lease |
| Tourism estates (e.g. ITDC) | Demo at the estate beach | Interest from the estate’s hotels | One umbrella deal |
| Village sites (BUMDes) | Demo day on the village beach, with free training for local youth as guides | Rides, plus farmers’ dawn use | Seasonal lease |
| Aquaculture companies & co-ops | Demo on your own lines, then a 30-day trial of 5 aqua units | Hours saved and kg per worker per day, measured with you | Lease or bulk purchase |
| Government (KKP, regencies) | Demo at a KKP modelling site | Results from the trials | Bulk purchase for farmer groups |
How OCEARA compares
| Buy a retail scooter | Snorkel tour | Hand labour | OCEARA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to partner | Rp 15.6M upfront | Rp 150k to 400k a tour (est.) | Rp 3.5M a month per worker (est.) | Lease Rp 1.0 to 2.5M a month, service included |
| Works in aquaculture | No | No | Yes, slowly | Yes: self-moving carrier |
| Fleet hours used | Low | n/a | n/a | Two shifts |
| Safety system | Basic | Guide | None | Cage, 5 m cut-off, buoy, kill-switch |
Market check: resort pool-scooter rides in Bali charge Rp 230,000 to 330,000 for 30 minutes. In Tanjung Benoa a jet ski costs Rp 205,000 to 235,000 for about 5 minutes and snorkelling Rp 170,000 to 190,000. A Rp 150,000 OCEARA ride is cheaper than both.
Where we operate
We start where farms and tourists share one coast. Resorts and villages come first in 2027, aquaculture at scale in 2028, and new hubs in 2029.
Market size in Indonesia est.
Rp 900bn / year TAM
Rp 420bn tourism · Rp 480bn aquaculture
Rp 420bn tourism · Rp 480bn aquaculture
Rp 360bn SAM
Bali, NTB, NTT, Riau Islands, Sulawesi
Bali, NTB, NTT, Riau Islands, Sulawesi
Rp 25bn
2029 target
2029 target
Our 2029 revenue target would be about 3% of the total market.
The facts behind the opportunity
- 6.33M
- foreign arrivals to Bali in 2024 · 550 star hotels
- 1bn+
- domestic tourist trips in Indonesia in 2024
- 4,573
- tourism villages in 2023 (target 6,000)
- 9.28 Mt
- of seaweed grown in 2022, worth Rp 40.85 trillion
- ~267,000
- households farm seaweed alone
- US$1.76bn
- global underwater scooter market (2024), growing 7.8% a year
Who rides
Domestic tourists aged 17 to 35 (students, young workers and content creators) who want a cheap, safe, shareable reef experience with no licence or skill needed.
Who we help
Farm workers and farmer groups on seaweed, shellfish, pearl, lobster and fish-cage farms in Bali, NTB, NTT, Sulawesi and the Riau Islands: less hauling, faster work, no up-front cost.
Who pays us
Private beach resorts, village-run tourism sites and estates, aquaculture companies of every kind, and government programmes.
Impact on coastal communities
OCEARA = Ocean + Era: a new era for the people who work and play in the ocean. Our mission is to make underwater technology affordable for Indonesia by sharing one fleet between tourists and farmers.
SDG 2 · Zero HungerSDG 8 · Decent WorkSDG 14 · Life Below Water
Young Ocean Workers Fund
5% of net profit funds training and scholarships in coastal villages.
Farmers become guides
Farmers earn extra as certified reef guides in their afternoons, leading freedive and reef tours.
Solar-charged
Batteries charge in the rack we supply with every lease. Seaweed farming absorbs carbon and needs no feed or fertiliser.
Reef-respecting
Tourists ride only in roped zones, with no fin-kicking on coral.
Local ownership
Village BUMDes keep farm-mode income locally, farmer groups advise each site, and prices are published.
No data selling
The buoy GPS tag is for safety and anti-theft only. We earn from leases and farm-unit sales.
On the roadmap design proposals · not yet costed
Clean Mode
A soft brush ring cleans algae and barnacles off nets, ropes and cages as the scooter runs, plus a mesh pocket that picks up plastic and lost fishing gear.
Farm Check camera
A low-cost waterproof camera on the Aqua Head records each line or cage so managers see crop health without diving. The video stays with the farm.
Reef Ranger tours
A small part of each tourist ride funds reef and seagrass restoration run by partner villages.
We are raising Rp 1.2bn for 15% equity
Valuation Rp 8bn, about 2.6× our 2028 forecast profit. Breakeven around month 9 of 2027. With 30% of profit paid as dividends from 2028, an investor receives about Rp 530M by 2029 and still owns 15% of a company forecast to earn Rp 8.6bn a year. All forecasts are our estimates.
3-year forecast est.
Use of the Rp 1.2bn
Cost per scooter falls with volume est.
Designed by OCEARA, built by a partner factory in East Java (Sidoarjo, Surabaya or Pasuruan) with our own moulds, a fixed price per batch and a tank test of every unit. Sealed thrusters, cells and controllers come from specialist suppliers. Factory quotes are still to be confirmed; one-off tooling about Rp 250M.
Frequently asked questions
Does the scooter harvest by itself?
No. People harvest by hand; the scooter is a self-moving carrier. It runs along the line with the bag so the worker never has to stop and haul. The line guides it, so it needs no complex autonomy, just the tether, rollers and a speed setting. That’s simpler, safer and cheaper than a harvesting robot.
Why lease instead of buy?
Salt water and tourist safety need professional maintenance, so we keep ownership and service every unit. Leasing also means no big purchase. We sell only aqua units, only in bulk (20+), with a Rp 1.5M yearly service plan.
Will resorts really pay Rp 2.5M per scooter a month?
Resort pool scooters in Bali already charge Rp 230 to 330k for 30 minutes. At Rp 150k a ride, a resort covers the lease with under one ride per scooter per day. In a normal month (2 rides per scooter per day) a resort sells about 3.6× its lease in rides.
Why is aquaculture cheaper than tourism?
Farms use the scooter every day, in calmer and closed-off water, need no tourist safety staff and buy in volume. The lower price makes the return obvious and still pays back our unit cost in about seven months on a lease.
How safe is it for tourists?
Caged propellers, a 5 m depth cut-off, a dead-man trigger, an orange buoy flag with GPS, roped zones, trained partner staff and insurance in every lease. In aqua mode, scooters run only in roped farm zones at walking speed with a float kill-switch held by the farmer.
Could it damage crops or nets?
We use soft guide rollers and an adjustable clamp (fits 6 to 20 mm rope and net edges), and run free 30-day trials on real farms before any sale.
Who runs the rides?
Your own water-sports staff, trained and certified by us, as resorts already do with jet skis. There’s no customer app: each partner takes ride payments its own way.
What happens in the low season?
Village leases can pause seasonally, and idle units move to aqua mode, which works all year. Farms harvest all year round.
Do you sell user data?
No. The GPS tag is for safety and anti-theft only. We earn from leases and farm-unit sales.
Where is it made, and what’s the status?
OCEARA designs the scooter and owns the moulds; a contract manufacturer in East Java builds and tests each unit. Only motors, cells and controllers are imported. Specifications on this site are design targets, and the first fleets are planned for 2027, book a demo to see where we are.
Lease, buy or book a free demo
Tell us about your site and we’ll reply on WhatsApp with next steps, pricing for your unit count and a demo date.
Chat on WhatsApp+62 821-6000-8063
- Resorts, villages, aquaculture, government & investors welcome
- Free demo and trial before any commitment
- Service, training and insurance included