NZ Navy Dive Team Receives ROV Training
lectures and practical/in-water operational training and was specifically tailored by The Underwater Center for the Navy, allowing the candidates to train within their own site with their own ROVs. The candidates were put through their paces by ROV Training and Operations Superintendent, Paul Bury, who has 15 years’ experience in the ROV industry, and has been training industry-ready ROV pilot technicians for over 13 years at The Underwater Center. “We spent an intensive nine days with the team teaching them all aspects of the Seaeye Falcon,” Bury
Underwater Center Boosts SAR Training
designed to assist ROV operators, latching and un-latching equipment safely for deployment and recovery. A dummy cargo was lowered to the seabed using the hook allowing the team to practice hooking and un-hooking the weight to simulate a recovery. The Center’s ROV Training Manager Paul Bury said that the team had been attracted to the Center due to the realistic working conditions it has to offer. “The three days were quite a challenge as they were doing things they had never done before, which was the main point of them being here,” he said. “Also, the conditions
February 2026
