Chasing Dory review

Peter Rowlands · Issue 112, Jan/Feb 2020 · pp. 49–51

Products mentioned: Chasing Dory, Gladius Mini Submersible Drone, Gladius Submersible Drone (GSD), Dive+ app

Chasing-Innovation, a Chinese company started in 2016, and I go back quite a while now for I have long been a fan of their small ROVs and back in 2017 I pledged on Indiegogo for their first product - The Gladius Submersible Drone (GSD). I reviewed it in Issue UwP99 Nov/Dec and it has proved a most useful and reliable vehicle. In my review I congratulated them for having made such a good product right from the start. It provided the capability of ROVs costing several times more and was extremely easy to deploy and operate. In early 2019 when I heard that they had developed the GSD into the Gladius Mini Submersible Drone my original purchase was ‘Ebayed’ and now resides in Turkey with a marine surveyor! The Gladius Mini has proved to be a significant improvement; one of the most important being the ability to tilt and hold it’s angle which makes searching for anything on the seabed so much…