• PROJECTS
& DEVELOPMENTS
The survey team preparing the vessel Pekapeka for a day’s survey activity, Port Tarakohe
OCEAN INFINITY ENTERS THE REGION Rhys Davies, Andrew Price and David Field, Marine Team Ocean Infinity
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ince 2008 the New Zealand and
Tonga, Fiordland and Coromandel.
and more complex surveys in a variety
Australian branch of iXblue has
As Ocean Infinity, we will retain
been undertaking hydrographic
our focus of providing hydrographic
The NZ team’s first project under
surveys throughout Oceania and be-
surveying services on either side of
the Ocean Infinity banner is the Toitū
yond and we are excited to announce
the Tasman; growing the industry
Te Whenua Land Information New
the next chapter in our history.
and capability and leveraging off the
Zealand (LINZ) Hydrographic Survey
technology in the marine robotics
Project in the Nelson to Kahurangi
been acquired by Ocean Infinity;
sector that Ocean Infinity is globally
Shoals and western Marlborough
a world-leading ocean robotics
renowned for, to provide new and
Sounds area, which commenced
company. The fit was a natural one for
innovative ways to acquire and
in March 2022. With an estimated
Ocean Infinity, with the team having
process hydrographic survey data.
total of 13,000 survey line miles of
iXblue Pty Ltd has recently
the experience and knowledge of the
As we grow, we will be able to ex-
of environments.
bathymetric, backscatter and water
use of an uncrewed surface vessel
plore new markets and leverage the
column data to collect, the project
(the DriX) for large-scale nautical
collective manpower and experience
has been split into two survey phases
charting surveys in our region, having
that exists within the wider Ocean
– coastal and offshore – with data
completed projects in the Kingdom of
Infinity family to help deliver larger
collection and processing spanning
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