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
Atlantic Canada Profiles: SULIS
Changing the way we see the oceans From its inception, SULIS has focussed on improving subsea vision. “Both optical quality and field of view are significantly compromised when you put a terrestrial camera lens behind a flat port (window), underwater,” said Adam Gobi (BEng, MSc), founder and CEO of SULIS Aquatic Technologies. “A dome-shaped port helps with field of view, but it is a crude optical element that adds additional optical distortions and aberrations that must be properly considered in the optical design process.” It is these sorts of optical limitatio
OSIL Expands In-House Engineering
enables us to deliver products to the market quicker, to maintain more effective controls over the equipment produced and gives us better administration of the supply chain.” said OSIL Managing Director, Dr. Richard Williams. The equipment in the new department includes XYZ full cad cam lathes (with capacity up to 425 mm diameter x 200mm length) turning centers and vertical machining centers (up to 1,200mm X travel and 650mm Y travel), manual lathes and vertical mills. The division also uses full 2017 Solidworks and One CNCXR6 Cam Software. The new engineering and CNC machining
MTR100: develogic
block system containing all necessary elements for collecting data anywhere in the ocean and transporting it to the customers’ office. Develogic’s end-to-end design and manufacturing process integrates electronic and 3D mechanical design, multi-physics and structural simulation, 3D CAM and computer-aided inspection. In addition to the custom solutions business, develogic also specializes in marine acoustic solutions: acoustic telemetry systems with proven ranges up to 30,000m, passive recording capabilities up to three years and RAFOS sound sources for underwater navigation are
February 2024
