Ocean tech companies ‘showing off a toys’ in Nova Scotia

High-speed vessel demonstrations and worldly sensors used to detect unexploded bombs were some of a things on display in Halifax gulf Wednesday as a new Dartmouth heart for sea record hold a initial proof event.

“We’re all about display off a toys here today,” said Jim Hanlon, CEO of a Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, known as COVE.

“It’s a showcase for a internal companies display off their wares, their equipment, as good as visiting companies from 12 opposite countries around a world.”

The incubator heart has captivated 54 tenants and an 80 per cent occupancy rate since opening in a former Canadian Coast Guard bottom in Oct 2018.

It’s a pointer of a expansion in Atlantic Canada’s sea tech sector, Hanlon said.

“We’re not neophytes during this, we are unequivocally utterly good during sea technology. We’re with a peers from around a universe and they all commend a strength of a village here in terms of a ability to furnish world-class sea technology,” he said.

One of those companies is P.EI.-based MarineNav, that sells a remotely operated vehicles (ROV) to a Canadian Coast Guard and to a salmon aquaculture attention in Norway.

“It’s really cold water, so tired would set in really fast for a diver,” pronounced Harold Phillips of MarineNav. “The ROV, basically, it can stay in a H2O indefinitely and and promote behind high-definition images and work during inlet distant over what a diver is able of doing.”

Boston Engineering, a record firm formed in Waltham, Mass., also showed off a remotely operated car that resembled a swimming fish.

‘Small, blue planet’

Roger Race, a manager during Boston Engineering, sees parallels between a expansion of sea record in New England and Atlantic Canada.

“A lot of partnership between these nautical communities here in Halifax and a nautical communities down in Boston, and it’s a expansion market,” he said.

“We’re saying new companies come adult in a Boston area. We’re saying new companies here during COVE in Halifax and we always are articulate to any other. It’s a small, blue world and we’re all operative on a same objective.”

Hanlon predicted the repurposed seashore ensure bottom will be entirely assigned by a initial anniversary in October.

“At that point, we start articulate about COVE 2.0,” he said.

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cove-ocean-technology-hub-halifax-1.5163685?cmp=rss