A Halifax-area company is aiming to build a ready-to-use underwater platform with a suite of “lab-on-a-chip” sensors for marine research.
Dartmouth Ocean Technologies, or DOT, is the creation of president Arnold Furlong and Director of Innovation Roger Race. Furlong is a serial entrepreneur specializing in marine technology, and Race is a biologist and engineer based out of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The towable platform on which the sensors will be mounted already exists in the form of DOT’s V-Wing depressor—a fiberglass wing that can be outfitted with sensors and towed behind a boat.
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