Police, SAR & Defence

Police, Search & Rescue and Defence: When these sectors are at work, reliability and accuracy is essential as almost always they act in emergency situations.

Specialised sectors such as police, defence and search and rescue, use a range of equipment in a completely different manner than many typical research. Where fish farmers use ROVs for monitoring fish, police use them for inspecting wreckage; where drilling rigs track oil spills with drifters, AMSA use them to aide search and rescue operations, where engineers are interested in ocean currents for design purposes, submarines are interested in them to monitor their position covertly for longer. Here is how some of our agencies are involved:

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Ocean currents for defence operations
Ocean waves for defence operations
Doppler Velocity Logs (DVL) for vessel / submarine navigation

ROVs for wreckage invesigation
ROVs for first response applications
Drop cameras for subsurface investiagtion
Pipe crawlers for asset checking, recovery, security
ROV for mine / subsea checking

iSLDMB for search and rescue / man overboard
VHF tracking beacons for surf life saving
Oil spill tracking response
Beacons and flashers for underwater assets / vehicles

Tide gauges for rapid deployment and recovery
Tide gauges for longer term hydrographic surveys
CTDs for speed of sound determination to aide underwater acoustic monitoring and avoidance