Autonomous Vehicles for Challenging Southern Ocean Conditions News that Norwegian oil and gas company, Statoil, will explore the Great Australian Bight off South Australia after taking over two of BP’s exploration permits points to increased activity in the harsh ocean conditions bordering the Southern Ocean. Leveraging the knowledge gained from UAVs and other fixed mounted […]
Army Innovation Award – Robotic Z-Boat BlueZone Group (BZG) is pleased to announce the award of order to UVS Pty Ltd for the supply of three robotic “Z-Boats” to the Royal Australian Army. This order comes as a direct result of BZG’s participation in Army Innovation Day (AID) 2016, where the main theme was ‘manned […]
Bowtech Burns Bright During World War II, the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) encountered the German raider HSK Kormoran and after a short but fierce battle, both ships sank, taking with them all 645 crew from the Sydney and almost 100 crew from the Kormoran. In 2015, researchers from Curtin University, Dr Andrew Woods, Dr […]
Seaeye Falcon Mothership An ingenious idea from Saab Seaeye customer, Stinger Technology, has found a way to penetrate the labyrinth inside offshore production tanks in search of environmental contaminates prior to decommissioning. They managed to squeeze a unique underwater robotic systems configuration loaded with sampling technology through a 150 cm square hatch to search the […]
LIGHTPATH SLS5000 for demo BlueZone UVS is pleased to offer the innovative PhotoSynergy LIGHTPATH product for demonstration in Australia. LIGHTPATH is a range of fibre lighting systems have been in operation in the North Sea for 4 years, principally used to illuminate dive umbilicals but also increasingly to delineate structures on the seabed and tether […]
Deepsea and DGO Hollywood director James Cameron secretly built the Deepsea Challenger submarine in Sydney for his voyage to the planet’s deepest point, 11 kilometres underwater to the Mariana Trench between New Guinea and Japan. The Deepsea Challenger submarine used the very latest technology and was built by a team of engineers in Sydney including […]
Additive Manufacturing at BlueZone Group The BlueZone Group engineering team have kept the new Markforged carbon fibre / composite 3D printer busy at the Perth workshop. Printing continuously with Carbon Fibre, Fiberglass, and Kevlar the ability to produce printed parts with the strength of metal has turbo-charged hardware engineering development for BlueZone customers. “A small […]
Kongsberg Maritime Colour Pan and Tilt Zoom (PATZ) Kongsberg Maritime has launched two new Colour Pan and Tilt Zoom (PATZ) cameras. The OE14-222 (PAL) and OE14-223 (NTSC) underwater CCD colour cameras provide completely enclosed pan, tilt and zoom functionality. KONGSBERG’s new cameras support a wide range of applications including, observational and situational awareness tasks, close […]
Double Eagle for Assured MCM Capability With a range of up to 1km and depth rating of 500m the Saab Double Eagle Mine Disposal System remains the reference system for remotely operated mine counter measures capability. Powerful propulsion packages enable underwater speeds of up to 8 knots ensuring that the Double Eagle can operate in […]
LIGHTPATH Now Available for Demo in Australia BlueZone UVS is pleased to offer the innovative PhotoSynergy LIGHTPATH product for demonstration in Australia. LIGHTPATH is a range of fibre lighting systems have been in operation in the North Sea for 4 years, principally used to illuminate dive umbilicals but also increasingly to delineate structures on the […]
