Living in a three dimensional world has taught our brains to see images in three dimensions, even though the observations that pass through our eyes are only two dimensional. It's the slightly differing information contained in multiple two dimensional perspectives that allows us to extrapolate three dimensional images. The same concept is now being realized in underwater robotic work in zero optical visibility water using high definition sonar.

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SeaBotix participated with the Canadian Navy in the world's largest international maritime exercise - Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) to create a unique training opportunity using the SeaBotix vLBV.  The training exercise was designed to use SeaBotix vectored Little Benthic Vehicles (vLBVs) to precisely identify, tag and record targets of interest on the oceans floor. 

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SeaBotix and the US Navy EOD teams worked together with thousands of volunteers, area residents, harbor Police, and the US Coast Guard along the shores, and in common dumping areas of San Diego Bay on Saturday, August 25th, 2012 to remove trash and debris as part of Operation Clean Sweep.

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High school and college students learned more about the design, engineering, and operation of Remotely Operated Vehicles this year at the AUVSi RoboSub competition.  The competition was at the SSC Pacific TRANSDEC facility in San Diego, 17-22 July.

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ADS and SeaBotix have teamed together to create a partnership that is committed to provide operational products that are “force multipliers” for military and first responder missions. As part of this commitment, ADS and SeaBotix worked together this summer at the ADS Warrior Expo in San Diego, San Antonio, and Virginia Beach.

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Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc. recently acquired BlueView Technologies, Inc. . BlueView, provides compact forward-looking imaging sonar, microbathymetry systems and 3D scanning sonar.  This acquisition may create new business opportunities for BlueView and for SeaBotix.

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A body believed to be a Moses Lake man missing since December was found Monday with the help of Franklin County's new, remote-controlled underwater search-and-rescue robot.

Grant County Sheriff's officials were back at the Potholes Reservoir again Monday searching for Dan Toya, 64.

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Long time SeaBotix client Orca Maritime specializes in underwater security, survey, GIS, marine services and training. As a known expert in the local San Diego area Orca Maritime was contracted to recover a lost Experimental AUV. Armed with a new vLBV300 ROV system and an approximate last known location the team set out on the recovery mission.

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NORWALK, CT., March 5, 2012 – Bolt Technology Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: BOLT) today announced that its subsidiary, SeaBotix Inc. of San Diego, California, has recorded the initial sale of its SeaBotix Containerized Delivery System (CDS). The system was delivered to the Advanced Technologies Division of Oceaneering International, Inc.

The SeaBotix CDS platform is the world’s first rapid-response, fully self-contained, single-point pick system capable of operating remotely operated vehicles (ROV’s), marine sampling devices, sonar systems, and many other marine technologies up to 4,000 meters deep.

As part of the total CDS solution, a complete control room is incorporated into the container with multiple monitors, workspace, ample storage, redundant HVAC, and a power distribution system. This allows the system to be safely and easily operated by two persons from vessels of opportunity as small as 40 meters.

Raymond M. Soto, Bolt’s Chairman and CEO, commented, “We are pleased to have delivered this system to Oceaneering and we look forward to providing these CDS systems to support many types of applications for ROV’s as well as other marine solutions. We are also excited about the opportunity to support Oceaneering International with the entire line of SeaBotix products.”

Bolt Technology Corporation is a leading worldwide developer and manufacturer of marine seismic data acquisition equipment, used principally for offshore oil and natural gas exploration, and remotely- operated robotic vehicles systems used for a variety of underwater tasks.

Coastal Dynamics Limited is now fully trained and equipped with a SeaBotix LBV600-6, adding a new level of capability to their marine environmental operations throughout the Caribbean.

During the week of March 5, 2012, employees of Coastal Dynamics successfully completed comprehensive training on their new LBV600-6 at their facility in beautiful Maraval, Trinidad. They selected three days of training for their personnel, which consisted of ROV operational theory, maintenance, service and piloting skills.

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MESA -- Just days after buying a search-and-rescue robot to help in drowning cases, Franklin County sheriff's deputies put the remote-controlled device to work on a call for a submerged vehicle.

The robot, called SARbot, quickly revealed Friday that no one was inside the Cadillac Escalade, which was found upside down in 20 feet of water near Mesa, according to a sheriff's office news release.

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SeaBotix collaborated with several local San Diego agencies in the San Diego International Airport’s Triennial mass-casualty exercise known as AIRX 2011. This event simulated an aircraft losing one engine and running off the airport’s runway – directly into the estuary on which SeaBotix and their Training Dock is located (it was a close one). The purpose was to exercise and evaluate local agency procedures and response to airport disasters.

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SeaBotix client SEA Corp, located in Venezuela has an Underwater Team that routinely conducts underwater inspections and surveys. One such survey included the inspection of a waterproofing system installed in the "Las Canalitas" dam.

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