A shore-deployable research vehicle for coastal reef monitoring in Singapore and the region.
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The problem
Singapore’s waters hold roughly 255 species of hard coral, nearly a third of the world’s total, packed into a tiny area. Since 1953, more than 60% of that cover has been lost. Visibility often drops to less than an arm’s length, and divers alone can’t keep pace with the reefs that remain.
The vehicle
An open-frame research tool: live video, depth and temperature logging, deployable from shore.
Inspect the systems →The crew
Students at UWCSEA East combining mechanical design, electronics, and reef ecology for field-ready monitoring.
Meet the team →In the water
Field footage
Pulau Hantu Dive
Tioman Surface Launch
Shore deploy
Pool trials
Boat staging
Bench build
Workshop · reef · telemetry
What it does
Live 1080p video through murky coastal water. It is the first step to protecting a reef you can’t walk on.
Depth, pressure, and temperature logged with every dive so environmental context travels with the footage.
Shore- or boat-deployable at ~5.9 kg and about $1,500, giving researchers access without a support vessel.
01 / 02 · Heat & loss
Warm the sea by 1.5–2 °C and polyps expel their algae, causing bleaching. Over 84% of the world’s reefs face heat stress. Reefs cover under 1% of the ocean floor yet support about 1 in 4 marine species.
02 / 02 · Our answer
Reef Monitoring ROV has live 1080p video and depth and temperature logging. It is field-proven at Pulau Hantu and Pulau Tioman, with a maximum depth of 11.04 m and over 10,000 logged samples.
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