Mr. Anthony Weir:

As regards the marriage between aerial robotics and surface and subsea robotics, as a nation, we will see that when we look at not so much the commercial entities but the national entities: defence, forestry, agriculture, the Coast Guard. When we look at these entities, and primarily with the marine, the aerial aspect of this would be the inspection and the monitoring of offshore structures. The subsea aspect of this is the monitoring of our subsea structures. These subsea structures can be offshore power generation, offshore power conduits, subsea cables and subsea communication conduits. How do we actively monitor these and how can we actively and predictably monitor what is happening to these, be it malicious or just regular maintenance? That is where the marriage would come. The aerial drones would monitor what is happening above the water and the subsea drones would monitor what is happening within the water column and what is happening to our assets on the seabed, be they-----