Services to the Aquaculture Industry:

Why take on the risks and expense of human dives?

Using our Micro ROV you can see what’s happening below the surface without getting wet.

Operated from on land, a pontoon or a boat we can:

• Improve safety by diverless inspections
• Cut fish loss through net inspections.
• Carry out stock assessments
• Control fishery operations
• Find expensive lost equipment
• Perform regulatory compliance work.
• Survey the sea bed and take samples.
• Recover dead fish to prevent spreading disease.
• Check the condition of cages, quays, pipelines, cables hulls and moorings.

 

Why take on the risks and expense of human dives? Control fishery operations by seeing what's happening beneath the surface. Without divers, cut fish loss through net inspections, monitor feeding, find expensive lost equipment, and perform regulatory compliance work.

For example, in the US aquaculture industry, food waste of just one percent represents $5 million in lost profit each year and in a salmon farm, the cost of a four-kilogram salmon escaping through an undetected hole equals a $12 USD loss from the fish farmer’s bottom line.

Micro ROV Service's small, light ROV can be slipped into the water from a small boat, raft or land and is quickly travelling through the water, capturing crisp video. With two halogen lights, the ROV can be used day or night Sending live video to a monitor on the deck. It does not scare fish as divers often do or create a panic that can lead to the death of fish.

With the ROV we can survey sea beds, inspect and sample polluted sites without spreading disease, recover morts, and check the condition of cages, quays, pipelines, cables, hulls, and moorings.

The Videoray Micro ROV
Weighing in at only 4.8 kgs (10.6 lbs) and being only 36 cm (14.2") long and 27 cm (11") wide the Pro-4 is small, light and easily deployed. In fact it is literally "throw it in the water. At only 21cm (8.5") high it can fit easily into most submerged pipelines, intakes or outfalls and spaces which are unreachable by a diver.

Small but powerful the Videoray Pro-4 can travel at 4.2 knots, see with the high resolution TV quality camera under the bright illumination of two Halogen lights. If the water is murky, there is the Blue View sonar sweeping the area and showing in sharp relief what’s ahead.

Found something? if it's small enough the manipulator can pick it up, if not the smart tether allows us to position it for later recovery by divers.

Want to measure or test something? the range of accessories allows on the spot testing of cathodic protection, determine metal thickness, detect radiation, sample water quality, and take measurements with a laser.

The ROV is a boon to the underwater world – for photographers, scientists, environmentalists, search and rescue, law enforcement, customs and excise, dam inspections, tank inspections, commercial and offshore oil and gas installation and monitoring, fisheries, recreational divers, hull inspections for yachties and commercial shipping, inspection of wharves, piers, moorings and harbour facilities and many more uses which are being discovered daily.

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