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Leading Canadian Submersible Robotics Company Deep Trekker Celebrating 10 Years

 

2020 proves to be another exciting year for Deep Trekker as they honour their tenth year

February 18,  2020 – Kitchener, Ontario – Submersible robot company Deep Trekker is thrilled to announce they are celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2020. Over the last decade Deep Trekker has grown from a garage start-up to a global company serving more than 9 industries.

Solving harsh environmental situations with fully assembled, tested and ready to use remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), Deep Trekker gets eyes underwater in minutes. With applications in aquaculture, ocean science, shipping, defense, infrastructure and search and rescue among others, Deep Trekker’s underwater drones are on the leading edge of ocean technology.

“Deep Trekker was inspired by an incident in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada,” shared Deep Trekker President Sam Macdonald. “I dropped my flashlight into the water one night and I thought that it would be perfect if I had a robot that could go in and get it for me.”

After developing their first ROV prototype, Sam and her business partner Jeff Lotz realized what a truly versatile product they had. Allowing users to get visual of underwater and submerged spaces has proven to be incredibly useful.

“Often if we can’t see it, we pay no mind to it – our robotics are designed to go places that aren’t normally seen.” shared Macdonald. “There is a tremendous amount of underwater infrastructure, operations, biology and ecology that people don’t always know about. We want to create tools that help uncover our underwater world.”

Deep Trekker’s advanced innovations have greatly impacted the world around them. The underwater drones provide users with a safe, convenient and cost-efficient way to inspect the underwater world and submerged infrastructure without endangering human divers. Specialized add ons provide industry specific tools like sonar, grabber arms, thickness gauges and vacuum attachments among others.

In addition to the Kitchener headquarters, Deep Trekker also has an office in Puerto Montt, Chile and dealers across the world.The company designs and manufactures at their head office in Kitchener, Ontario.

Deep Trekker will be attending the Seafood Expo North America as part of their 10 year celebrations. Deep Trekker Aquaculture Industry Expert Andrew Lawrence and Communications Specialist Rachel Doornekamp will be in attendance for the duration of the show at booth 2088. Attendees are encouraged to stop by the booth to take the DTG3 ROV for a test drive in Deep Trekker’s tank.

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About Deep Trekker

Deep Trekker Inc. was founded in 2010 with a mission to create portable, affordable, and easy to use harsh environment robotic inspection tools. The company is headquartered in Ontario, Canada, with engineering and manufacturing all completed in house.  Based on a clean sheet design, the premiere product, the DTG2 ROV was introduced in August 2011. Since that time, Deep Trekker Inc has developed the DTG3 ROV, Revolution ROV, DT340 Pipe Crawler, DT320 Mini Pipe Crawler, DT640 Utility Crawler and DTPod. With sales in over 80 countries, Deep Trekker robots can be found in industries ranging from aquaculture to municipal contracting, military and defense, search and rescue, shipping, infrastructure and more.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Rachel Doornekamp
Communications Specialist
[email protected]
1-226-898-2542
www.deeptrekker.com

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