CoastalCOMS

Source: Brisbane Times, QLD, Australia
September 4, 2010 – 10:53AM

A seven metre sub-adult humpback whale has been freed from a shark net on the Gold Coast.
Queensland shark control manager Tony Ham from Fisheries Queensland said it took officers less than half an hour to free the whale, which became entangled off Surfers Paradise early on Saturday morning.
“The [...]

CoastalCOMS announced today that they have signed a deal with Big Orange Dot LLC to provide camera services and wave data processing for surf.Solspot.com. The resulting camera network will be the first ’sensing’ HD wave cameras in the US to process video and utilize video analysis for live measurements of surf heights and wave [...]

Using mobile tower systems and HD surveillance cameras CoastalCOMS broadcast live vision and breaking wave heights during the Annual Lifeguard National Championships earlier this month.

Oahu’s Ocean Safety Division is going mobile this summer. Two wireless, remote deployable camera units will be stationed at beaches around the island on an as needed basis, giving ocean lifeguards immediate access to vision and information via CoastalCOMS hosted surveillance networks.
The Ocean Safety Division’s hosted beach surveillance network now services five fixed locations, [...]

Hosted monitoring of sensitive marine environmental areas for human impact, wildlife movement, and protected area enforcement.

The CoastalCOMS team is operating a multi-camera, mobile, beach camera unit this spring and recording late into the night in hopes of ‘catching’ local fish.