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U.S. Marines Trial Regent’s Seaglider for Rescue Missions

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U.S. Marines trial Regent Craft seaglider — Regent’s Viceroy prototype demonstrates an open-water life raft rescue, one of three casualty evacuation scenarios the company carried out as part of its U.S. Marine Corps partnership. © Regent Craft

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

November 18, 2025

Regent Craft and the U.S. Marine Corps have completed operational trials to demonstrate how the company’s seaglider can be used for rescue missions. The electric-powered vessel was deployed for medical and casualty evacuation exercises, the Rhode Island-based start-up announced on November 16.

Three missions were successfully completed during the sea trials: boarding a non-ambulatory patient on a litter from a dockside, a beach extraction of an injured patient from the shore, and an open-water life raft rescue. According to Regent Craft, the exercises, which are part of a $15 million contract from the Marines, proved the vessel’s ability to approach, secure, and recover survivors in challenging sea conditions.

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