Shooting Fish in a Barrel BlueZone Group congratulates technology partner, SeaView Systems who have been awarded a $25,000 prize awarded for their submission to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Great Lakes Invasive Carp Challenge. In the USA, millions of dollars and countless hours have been spent over that last 20 years trying to control […]

Reducing ROV Operating Costs At Australian Oil & Gas in Perth in March BlueZone Group Project Engineer, Simon Knitter, presented on the Focal 928-OMS Optical Monitoring System (OMS). In his presentation, Simon said that the typical fibre optic path for a Work Class ROV can have many interconnections resulting in the potential for many failure […]

Oceanology International 2018 BlueZone Group was pleased to learn about the impending release of the “Tasman” Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) from Teledyne RDI at Oceanology International 2018. Abel Tasman was a famous navigator whose name is remembered in many places in Australia including the island state of Tasmania and the Tasman Sea. The Tasman DVL […]

REMUS M3V – High-speed and Low-Cost Micro AUV Just prior to Oceanology International 2018 Hydroid announced the release of the new groundbreaking REMUS M3V compact, one-man portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Low cost and ready to use right out of the box, this micro AUV supports numerous applications including search and survey; intelligence, surveillance and […]

RS-ORCA Porpoise – Single Channel Acoustic Data Recorder The popular 5 channel RS-ORCA Acoustic Data Recorder is now available as a low-cost single channel variant called the Porpoise. RS Aqua Application Scientist Ryan Mowat said that many customers had requested a single-channel version of the RS-ORCA to support cost effective deployments in situations where multi-channel […]

Pressure Goes West Due to customer demand, BlueZone has relocated a 2000m rated hydrostatic pressure test chamber from workshops in Melbourne to Bibra Lake in Perth. General Manager Perth, Mark Musarra, said that there had already been a high demand for hydrostatic pressure testing services. “We have completed two customer jobs this week,” said Mark, […]

3D Printing – High Quality with Rapid Turnaround BlueZone Group is building on the high quality and rapid turnaround of our Subsea Cable Moulding Service by offering our customers a similar service for 3D printed parts. The Markforged Mark Two 3D Printer can print in advanced materials including composite materials with a higher strength-to-weight ratio […]

Five Years From PacX More than 5 years have passed since BlueZone supported the recovery of the “Papa Mau” Wave Glider after completion of its historic and record breaking Pacific Crossing. On 20 November 2012 UVS supported Liquid Robotics in the recovery of the “Papa Mau” Wave Glider at Hervey Bay near Bundaberg, Queensland. Papa […]

Launch of the Kailani Telemetry Buoy BlueZone Group is please to announce the launch of the Kailani Telemetry Buoy. The “Internet of Things at Sea” is made real by the Kailani Telemetry Buoy for receiving real-time data from your deployed instruments. The compact sea surface buoy package is just 460mm in diameter and less than […]