JW Fishers Mini-Cam Bolsters Police Search Diving Efforts
JW Fishers Manufacturing has supplied its MC-2HD mini camera to the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, strengthening its capabilities for water recovery operations.The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office recently purchased a JW Fishers' MC-2HD mini camera, which is being deployed in multiple training operations and evidence searches of the department's Underwater Search and Recovery Team (USRT).The compact device easily mounts on Kirby Morgan helmets or can be utilized with an optional handle and added LED light. The HD camera enables divers to navigate the depths while transmitting
Inspiring Future Ocean Explorers with Landers
built by several 10-year old elementary school students, by college students in their 20’s, and by university researchers. SCUBA divers have used the vehicle to preview bottom conditions before they gear up. More applications are described below.The quality of the image depends on the camera. Several models of waterproof action cameras have a setting for underwater photography that color correct for the loss of reds and oranges. We found the Akaso EK7000 camera was affordable, came with an underwater housing, and provided reasonably good photos.Figure 2. A Kelp Bass
Prysmian Gets $647M Job to Install Australia’s Green Interconnector
expected by August 2025.Prysmian will design, test, supply and install a HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) cable system, consisting of 320 kV single-core cables with XLPE insulation and single-wire armouring, covering both submarine and land sections.The company will also provide a fully integrated PRY-CAM permanent monitoring system.The cables for the Marinus Link project will span 345 km – 255 km undersea across Bass Strait and 90 km underground in Gippsland, Victoria, with the completion date set for 2030.With a capacity of 750 MW for the first stage, the Marinus Link will facilitate the flow
New Battery Option for Mako 4K Subsea Video Cam
New battery-power option for Mako camera Popular subsea video camera now capable of standalone operation. Arctic Rays has developed a new battery option for its popular Mako video camera, opening new standalone capabilities for underwater filming for research. Mako is a 4K video capture option that is for filming from legacy ROVs because of its ability to give real-time monitor output in SD via coax while recording 1080p 4K video at 30 fps. The new internal battery option for Mako allows for standalone operation, a perfect complement to Mako's existing capability of using preset recording
Global Reef Expedition: Mission to Tonga
maps of the shallow marine environments in Tonga. These maps have been shared with government officials in Tonga and are available to explore on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation World Web Map Portal (http://maps.lof.org/lof).To verify the accuracy of these maps, an underwater tethered video camera, called a drop-cam, was used to gather video of the benthic composition at each survey site. At each point, the drop-cam was suspended from the survey boat enabling it to “fly” along the sea floor recording video, geographic position, time, date, heading, and speed. Some of these geo-referen
Thruster Design for Submersible Developers
system characteristics of the propeller and drive are defined in the prior stage, the details of the propeller component can then be designed. This process, called “wake-adapted propeller design”, delivers the radial shape parameters that reflect size (chord, thickness, foil), lift (pitch, camber), and position (rake, skew). These parameters are designed to a specified vehicle speed, required thrust loading, and shaft RPM (i.e., the “design point”), with supporting evaluations for cavitation and blade strength.A multi-duty application (such as an adaptive UUV that will carry
STR, Forssea Agree Exclusive Partnership
Robotics Visual LOCalisation (V-LOC) Positioning technology, which will be available globally for operations. The V-LOC positioning system is a computer vision-based method able to track and position underwater markers with millimetric accuracy. The V-LOC technology is embedded inside an innovative camera, called the NAV CAM which mounted on a ROV system and markers attached onto subsea assets. The real-time output can provide the operator with live asset’s heading and attitude, or relativedistance between 2 structures.Scott Johnstone, Group Managing Director, STR said, "Over the past
Prysmian to Supply Cables for French Floating Wind Farm
,” said Alessandro Panico, Sales Team Manager - Offshore Wind, Prysmian Group. “The EPR technology is a key enabling factor for the development of dynamic cable solutions thanks to its unique mechanical and electrical properties.”The PGL project also comprises of a full combined PRY-CAM permanent monitoring system, Prysmian said. All inter-array connections will be permanently monitored using PRY-CAM innovative solutions for Partial Discharge (PD) measurement, Distributed Temperature (DTS) and Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to measure all key operating parameters of the whole cable system
Subsea Vision & Photogrammetry Lab Formed
Offshore robotics company FORSSEA ROBOTICS chose GMS as main technical partner to certify its real-time visual positioning technologies. A joint laboratory will be created to develop a common offer covering camera calibration, subsea image treatment and innovative photogrammetry solutions.FORSSEA ROBOTICS decided last year to adapt its Atoll ROV embedded visual docking technology into a stand-alone product. The company was already manufacturing and commercializing underwater cameras, mainly for R&D underwater vision applications.The so-called V-LOC (Visual LOCalization) technology has been designed
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