Download BlueView Technologies and VideoRay LLC Complete Jamaican

BlueView Technologies and VideoRay LLC
Complete Jamaican Port Security Trip
Both Companies Learn Underwater Smuggling Detection
Techniques from Leading Security Firm in Kingston, Jamaica
December 10-14, Kingston,
Jamaica - Senior Executives
from VideoRay and BlueView
recently returned from a week
long visit with Security
Administrators, Ltd (SAL) in
Port Bustamante, Kingston,
Jamaica. SAL is in charge of
all port security in Port
Bustamante as dictated by the
ISPS code, including ensuring
that drug smugglers do not
attach canisters in underwater
hull locations on ships leaving the port. In the
last year three separate vessels have been
found to have canisters attached, most recently
on November 25th. Before VideoRay
operations began in 2002, human divers who
located drug caches had been murdered by
vicious drug gangs.
The purpose of the trip was three fold. The
first was to understand more fully how
VideoRays were being used in order to further
improve their capabilities and suitability for
this task. The second purpose was to finalize a
contract to allow SAL to increase their scope of
security services throughout the Caribbean by
selling and servicing VideoRays in additional
ports. Finally, demonstrations were
successfully conducted with BlueView
imagining sonar showing a significant increase in the speed and efficiency of
searches in the highly restricted visibility of the water in Port Bustamante.
After the meetings, VideoRay and BlueView concluded that the P450 imaging
sonar, mounted under a VideoRay ROV, can detect an actual drug container on
an actual cargo vessel from a distance of over 100 feet. Meetings and
demonstrations were conducted with several members of Jamaica's law
enforcement community with VideoRay and BlueView. All involved are now
convinced that the three companies can work together to effectively, safely, and
rapidly inspect hulls for drug attachments in harbors throughout the Caribbean.
About BlueView Technologies
Located in Seattle Washington, BlueView Technologies manufactures both
custom and off-the-shelf miniature multibeam sonar solutions. BlueView
provides mission-critical real-time underwater vision for Navy, Law
Enforcement, Oil & Gas, and other marine applications. Visit BlueView online at
www.blueviewtech.com.
About VideoRay
VideoRay now has far more Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in service
around the world than any manufacturer, and is delivering additional ROVs at an
increasing rate. Weighing just 8 pounds and starting at $5995 USD, VideoRays
can be equipped with sonar, positioning systems or other accessories, and are
used for underwater surveys, offshore inspections, search and recovery,
homeland defense, science, fish farming and a range of applications in
underwater environments. In August, the General Services Administration (GSA)
awarded VideoRay a contract to supply vehicles to the US government, making it
easier and faster for many agencies to acquire one. See
http://www.videoray.com/GSA for more information.