Month: January 2023

Episode 20: Total immersion, Telling stories beneath the waves

Ryan Chatfield  and his mates have spent their lives exploring, and filming, the world below the waves. When they turned their skills to documentary making, a new connection, film-maker Brendan Hutchins, helped them pitch a series to Disney+, Shipwreck Hunters Australia. Together, they tell the stories of shipwrecks, their victims and survivors, making a human…

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Short: Deploying remote operated vehicles from uncrewed vessels

Remotely operated vehicles can perform inspections efficiently and effectively without risk to humans. However, they can require time-consuming returns to port for reconfiguration. Mark Bruce has been working to develop electric ROVs that can be deployed from uncrewed surface vessels and pack more sensors in a way that allows them to operate without interruption or…

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