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Advances in underwater vision systems are often initiated by a
customer's demand for increased ability and capability to cater for
new subsea technologies or specific underwater tasks.

This has driven companies like Bowtech Products to develop and provide
the technology to meet these expectations. Whether that is for small
ROV tooling intervention cameras, NDT Inspection quality,
oceanographic survey, low light salvage work, diver helmet mounted
cameras - or any other of the myriad of modern subsea tasks that
requires a complete and advanced imaging solution - companies like
Bowtech have led the way.

The latest generation of Bowtech Products ultra low light and HD
cameras reflects this progress.

The lack of available tubes for low light SIT cameras meant that an
alternative or improved technology had to be found.

Bowtech developed and were the first to market this next generation
camera for ultra low light viewing. The Bowtech Explorer EXTREME using
Cooled BIT EMCCD technology has now achieved this.

In the case of salvage companies, who by their nature need to sell
film and documentary rights, one of the key driving forces in product
improvement is to bring HD quality subsea video to the surface and
beyond. Having manufactured one of the first HD cameras, Bowtech
Products are now testing a unique and compact 1080i/720p camera with
fiber output to cater for this customer driven requirement.

This 6,000m grade 5 titanium alloy housed camera, with sapphire glass
window, can also provide component or HD-SDI output with a wide
variety of matched connector solutions, cabling and complimentary LED
lighting. The Bowtech Surveyor HD colour camera, with unique fiber
output also has an optical zoom of 10:1.

Such progress means that high profile underwater discoveries can be
filmed in all their HD glory. If in any doubt what an HD camera can
do, look at a bank note with the naked eye and then with an HD camera.
This will give you an idea of the definition, hidden clarity and
information that HD video now brings to the subsea world.