Dive Track Competition - Winning Prototype Receives Award
Tritech International and Newcastle University has received a prestigious innovation award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Europe’s largest professional society for engineers and the UK governing body, British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)
The IET Innovation in Engineering Awards Ceremony was held in London on 13th November. Recognising and celebrating excellence in engineering innovation across a range of industry sectors and engineering disciplines.
The £5000 prize was presented to the winning team Tritech/NU who designed and manufactured DiveTrack, a transceiver device carried by divers, which communicates with a surface unit. This enables the diver to be located at all times and can also send emergency signals to the surface alerting boat crew to problems underwater.
The Award winning DiveTrack Location System will now be on display at BSAC Diving Officer's Conference in London, this Saturday, 1st December 2007.
The DiveTrack competition, was originally set up in memory of Penny Glover who died with her dive buddy Jacques Filippi in a tragic diving accident in 2005.
Donating the full award and a personal contribution to Newcastle University, Marcus Cardew of Tritech said:
"Having been in the underwater industry for many years, it has been a great privilege to work with Newcastle University and turn their excellent research into such an important and useful aid for those who venture underwater."
Richard Marsh, Managing Director of Tritech says that he is confident that, in the near future, the company will bring an easily affordable product to market which will significantly improve diver safety worldwide. He also hopes to continue collaboration with BSAC divers in the design and testing of such products.
Richard Marsh adds,
“The fundamental technology would support future developments such as simple text messaging and telemetry of diver health or gas data.”
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