Underwater Structure Assessment Safety controls in many countries require that underwater structures must undergo an extensive survey that includes detailed inspection. The inspection requirements included video inspection with an Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) combined with an accurate 3D rendering to describe the structure foot morphology (silt build-up, collapsing, scouring effects, etc.), and included secondary structures […]
SeaVent™ Pressure Relief Valves Many Subsea Electronic Modules require a Pressure Relief Valve to relieve internal pressure due to internal off-gassing. DeepSea Power & Light SeaVent™ pressure relief valves meet critical subsea specifications for a variety of applications. SeaVent™ universal pressure relief valves can be used on instrument housings, battery packs, and other applications requiring […]
REMUS 6000 Plays Key Role in the Discovery of the USS Indianapolis Wreckage Hydroid announced that their REMUS 6000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) was used to gather sonar data by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s team in the historic discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreckage on 19 August 2017. The ship was found 5,500 meters below […]
Mooring System Numerical Modeling For many years moorings have been designed using basic mass-drag-buoyancy calculations, spreadsheets, rules-of-thumb, black magic scripts, and a dose of ‘salty-sea-dog’ experience. With these methods, we can frequently estimate a line size to use or an approximate anchor weight. But sometimes despite our experience we still have questions. This article supplied […]
Salmon Farming Gets New Falcon Technology The largest majority privately owned producer of fresh salmon in Australia, Huon Aquaculture, has ordered a second Saab Seaeye Falcon underwater e-robotic vehicle. Their newest Falcon is now enhanced with Saab Seaeye’s iCON behaviour-based intelligent control architecture. This is an important new resource for Huon as iCON makes possible […]
Drone Technology Drives Development Development work for new robotic boat technology for Army is progressing at BlueZone Group driven by technologies available from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or ‘drone’ world. BlueZone Group CTO, Darren Burrowes, said that the large amount of lightweight and low-cost technologies developed for drone applications provided many options for application […]
Downunder Delegation for Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop BlueZone Group is pleased to announce the largest delegation ever for the Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop (TMTW) October 15 to 18 in San Diego. CEO, Neil Hodges, said that with the newly expanded Workshop that there was significant value to be gained from attending the workshop for many […]
ClearSignal® Treatment for SeaBat® T50-P Multibeam Sonar BlueZone Group has completed the first ClearSignal® treatment of a Teledyne Reson SeaBat® T50-P Multibeam Sonar. The SeaBat® T50-P is the new addition to the leading SeaBat® T-series product range engineered from the ground up. Combined with the Portable Sonar Processor the SeaBat® T50-P provides unprecedented survey data, […]
BlueZone Congratulates Innovative Engineer Andrew Woods BlueZone Group congratulates Dr Andrew Woods of Curtin University for his naming in the 2017 list of “Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers” prepared by Engineers Australia – for the development of the Deep-water 3D Imaging System used to survey HMAS Sydney II and HSK Kormoran. A custom deep-water lighting and […]
BlueZone Group Supports NSW Inquiry into the Defence Industry BlueZone Group has presented at the NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the Defence Industry in New South Wales. BlueZone Group CEO, Neil Hodges, attended as one of three industry representatives together with Chris Jenkins (CEO Thales Australia) and Mark Burgess (CEO Quickstep). Neil said that the […]
