ROV Lightweight Lifting Tether System

A segmented marine tether that keeps a compact diameter for comms/power while adding a load-bearing lifting sleeve for safe launch/recovery, plus torsion control and optional “S-tether” buoyancy behavior. Enables lighter signal tethers to lift heavy ROVs safely: adds a load-bearing sleeve for in-air lift, reduces twist/hockling, and can form an “S” shape to lower tug on the vehicle.

CPICS Submersible Microscope

CPICS is a submersible microscope that captures sharp, high-resolution images of plankton and suspended particles directly in the water. It uses darkfield lighting so the camera mainly sees light scattered by the organism or particle, which makes fine features stand out. The imaging space is open and flow-through, so fragile targets can pass through naturally and stay intact. The system can also sort and label images automatically using image-quality checks, in-focus detection, and trained categories.

Submersible Interferometric Sensor

This technology reads an interferometer signal using a standard spectrometer. It calculates absolute optical path length difference with very high precision, even when the spectrometer samples are not spaced in the usual “quadrature” way. It has a resolution from 1/1,000 to 1/100,000 of a wavelength, which supports high-precision sensing of parameters like refractive index, which can be used for salinity and density.