This is the autonomous underwater veh (AUV) that Orca Maritime is using for mapping the search area. SDG&E’s contractor from WH Pacific is using a UAV which has a radio metric camera. #gratitude #technology

#UPDATE Day 2 of the search and recovery efforts have ceased due to limited light. Crews will be back at 5am Monday to search more of #SanVicenteReservoir. Orca Maritime will be utilizing robotic tools to aid the San Diego Lifeguards search efforts. #NBC7 nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Sea…

Our mission to recover the missing 12-year-old girl came to a successful resolution today. Thanks to all the agencies - public & private who came together to support SDFD. #RIP #publicservice #teamwork

Orca Maritime conducts search for WWII aircraft off the coast of Saipan orcamaritime.com/news/2020/4/20…

Chestley Howell and Kimberly Flax ballasting Orca's newest OceanServer IVER3 in prep for it's maiden dive to map a sunken trawler.

Orca & OceanServer spent a week training NOSWC on three new Iver3 Edgetech and Starfish #AUV systems equipped with extended payload sections

Orca & OceanServer spent 3 days with NOSWC in Virginia, conducting training on their Iver3 #AUV systems

Orca was on site to supervise the use of an Iver3 #AUV by the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Marines during training exercise Steel Knight

Video from yesterday's 300' deep recovery of a fouled transponder using a #Seabotix vLBV300

Orca attended the SonarWiz workshop in Seattle last week to brush up on the latests features for data processing and display

Intern Judith Chadwick gets "stick time" during ROV operations in support of Navy Programs. Unmanned systems SME Chad Nelson instructs.

Daryl Slocum (OceanServer), Chad Nelson, Chestley Howell, and Judith Chadwick head out for another day of U/W technology testing.

Oceanology 2017 North America - Jesse Rodocker, Strategic Robotic Systems, briefs members of Orca Maritime's ops team on the Fusion ROV.

Chad Nelson (Orca Maritime) and Daryl Slocum (OceanServer) run three simultaneous AUV missions mapping the sea floor off the SoCal coast.

The Orca crew conducts underwater harbor survey using OceanServer IVER3 AUVs.

Just completed a side scan sonar and swath bathymetry survey of Marine Group Boat Works two facilities in San Diego using an Iver3 #AUV

This is why we always bring our #ROV on #AUV jobs. Pulling our #Iver3 out of the kelp off San Clemente Island using our #SeaBotix #vLBV300

Trained #NASA last week on their Iver3. The #AUV will be used to test autonomy developed at #JPL that may one day find its way to Europa.

Spent a week with TeledyneMarine training on the Gavia #AUV, collecting bathymetry and side scan of ship and plane wrecks around San Diego

Built a larger version of our recovery system to pull heavy objects that are out of diver depth using our SeaBotix vLBV. 4 recoveries in the first round with the line going from the surface, clipped and up to the recovery boat in about 20 minutes each