Blue Zone Group Posts

SeaBotix ROVs for Aquaculture

SeaBotix ROVs for Aquaculture UVS has recently supplied Huon Aquaculture with Teledyne SeaBotix Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to support their operations at Hideaway Bay – the home of Huon Aquaculture. Huon is the largest family owned and operated vertically integrated salmon producer in Australia. Its operations span all links of the supply chain, from hatcheries […]

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Sealite Sphere 200 Series

Sealite Sphere 200 Series DeepSea Power and Light has announced the launch of the next generation SeaLite Sphere. This upgrade to the SeaLite Sphere family features increased light output, LED efficiency, and updated housing providing improved beam control. The Sealite Sphere 200 Series includes flood 75° and Spot 34° reflector options with a hard anodized […]

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Successful SeaBotix Training

Successful SeaBotix Training Staff from UVS workshops in Newcastle and Perth have completed training in all aspects of support for Teledyne SeaBotix Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) at Newcastle, NSW. The training was conducted by Cyril Poissonnet, Strategic Product Development Manager, SeaBotix Teledyne Marine, who traveled to Australia especially for the event. Newcastle Workshop Manager, Grant […]

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Aquatec Equipment Awards

Aquatec Equipment Awards UVS partner, Aquatec Group, are creators of innovative instruments, services and solutions for measurement, monitoring and communication underwater.  Aquatec’s Equipment Awards give students and early career researchers the opportunity to use Aquatec’s innovative instruments for their research and are now open for applications. Two instruments are available to loan: the commercially established […]

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Greater Hunter Makers Festival

Greater Hunter Makers Festival BlueZone/UVS is excited to be a participant in the inaugural Greater Hunter Makers Festival to be staged in Newcastle 11 and 12 November 2016. The vision of the Makers Festival is to showcase the Greater Hunter Region as a global centre of engineering and manufacturing excellence offering world-class people,customised products and services. […]

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Successful IEEE Student Outreach

Successful IEEE Student Outreach The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has supported a successful student outreach program conducted at the BlueZone Group Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) facility in Newcastle, NSW. The IEEE NSW Joint Chapter Communications, Signal Processing and Ocean Engineering, EA and IICA arranged a site visit to BlueZone Group’s facility at […]

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Release Refurbishment

Release Refurbishment These “before & after” pictures from the BlueZone workshop demonstrate the complete capability offered for repair, overhaul and total refurbishment of equipment like acoustic releases. BlueZone workshops include electrical, electronic and electro-mechanical service capability that is focused on the maintenance of oceanographic equipment. Importantly, BlueZone has a complete painting facility that specialises in […]

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Z-Boat with MB2 and SeaBotix Little Benthic Crawler for Demonstration in Australia/NZ

Z-Boat with MB2 and SeaBotix Little Benthic Crawler for Demonstration in Australia/NZ UVS is pleased to announce the demonstration of two innovative Teledyne Marine products in Australia and New Zealand in October: The  Teledyne  OceanScience  Z-Boat with  MB2  Multibeam  Echosounder is  an  entirely  new  option  for  high-resolution  shallow-water hydrographic surveying. Get multibeam bathymetry data where […]

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ASPI Report – Australian border security and unmanned maritime vehicles

ASPI Report – Australian border security and unmanned maritime vehicles In a report published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute the application of Unmanned Maritime Vehicles (UMV), like the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider, to Australia’s border security challenge has been considered. Australia’s complete maritime jurisdiction covers about 14 million square kilometres, including an exclusive economic […]

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Hamish Shines on Awards Night

Hamish Shines on Awards Night UVS is pleased to announce that Electronics Technician, Hamish McInnes has been the 2016 recipient of the Josh Woolfson Memorial Encouragement Award. The Josh Woolfson Memorial Encouragement Award was established in 2012 by Liz Woolfson in memory of her husband, Josh Woolfson and his work in the Industrial Electronics courses […]

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