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How two brothers went from growing up on a sailboat to making underwater military vehicles


Vatn Systems founders Nelson and Freddie Mills spent their childhood cruising over turquoise waters, doing their homework on a sailboat off the coast of

Vatn Systems founders Nelson and Freddie Mills spent their childhood cruising over turquoise waters, doing their homework on a sailboat off the coast of Caribbean islands. The brothers, who spent several months of each year on a sailboat, would occasionally put down their homework and pick up a wrench, helping their father jerry-rig mechanical solutions. Last year, the two paired up with engineer Geoff Manchester and Dan Hendrix, a former special forces dive team officer, to found Vatn Systems, a startup producing autonomous underwater vehicles primarily for defense uses.

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