Editorial

Staff · Issue 94, Jan/Feb 2017 · pp. 4–13

Products mentioned: Trident Open ROV

Editorial Trident Open ROV You may (or probably may not) remember my Editorial piece in UwP90 about the Trident Open ROV Kickstarter project. Well I have an update for you. I pledged my money in November 2015 and was well down the list of initial investors in the queue so the campaign had started a lot earlier in 2015. My credit card was duly charged with a promise of November 2016 delivery. In October 2016 an e mail came through in couched words intimating that delivery would be delayed. I wasn’t surprised. Coincidentally when I attended the DEMA Show in Las Vegas in November 2016 Trident OpenROV had a stand there and I was able to speak to those involved in the project. We discussed the reasons for the delayed delivery and was given several reasons why. I responded that I understood the problems with getting a new product off the ground and I left reassured that I would get my ROV but …