APF SG 2025 Speakers / Hugh Martindale
Dr Hugh Martindale is a Forensic Mechanical Engineer and expert in subsea power cables. Past experience includes engineering consultancy, performing flexible pipe and marine hose failure root cause analysis. As well as oil well BOP (Blowout Preventer) and LMRP (Lower Marine Riser Package) disassembly witnessing, oil and gas subsea equipment manufacturing inspections, recovery of failed subsea flexible pipe samples from the North Sea and support for flexible pipe and subsea power cable failure analyses and integrity assessments.
More recent work involves subsea power cable structural modelling for offshore wind farm applications, developing analytical models to improve established theory and provide better cable representation for global modelling and improved cable stress analysis.

Hugh Martindale
Subsea Power Cables Expert | Hawkins