News, Travel & Events

Staff · Issue 90, May/Jun 2016 · pp. 4–13

Products mentioned: Trident ROV, Palau Siren

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com I had to check the date of the article on the Daily Mail website in case it was an April Fools Day prank but it was dated April 8th so it can’t have been. The plan is to build a 30 mile bridge across the Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Egypt. At first glance this seemed like a good idea but when you look at the map it is planned to span across the Straits of Tiran. The bridge, to be named after King Salman of Saudi Arabia, will facilitate pilgrimages to Mecca and promote local industry, and is likely Trident ROV Open ROV is a long established project to develop small ROVs for a wider market and to help them become ‘quadcopters of the sea’. The first incarnation was quite basic but nevertheless very successful. I understand they have shipped in the order of thousands. Back in September 2015 I was alerted to their second incarnation, Trident, by a…