Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant.
When it's farther from the shore, the device will use satellite signals instead.
In the dark water, two of them located it, searching with their hands and communicating with rescuers on shore through devices in their masks.
The HLD is now the world's largest on-shore lifting device, and it works well.
Surfing is not only unrecognized here, but the concept of Cubans swimming away from protected shores with a flotation device can also leave officials uneasy.
The perfect gift for seafarers is a VHF radio, or so I was advised by a customer who owns several, because, apparently, you can't have too many ship-to-shore handheld communication devices.
"If we don't face surprises, we aren't learning," said Mr. Lotti, a bespectacled 45-year-old native of Finland, as he directed a 15-man team responsible for towing the 32-yard-long container-shaped device back to shore.
So teams are encouraged to explore cost-saving approaches, like launching the device from the shore (so that no ship is required).
The drone spotted two teenagers in trouble around a half-a-mile out from shore, and then dropped a flotation device it carries for the purpose to give them something to hang on to (via Verge).
Researchers, who had tagged the shark for a study on the animal's behavioral patterns, found its tracking device washed up on shore four months after its disappearance.
A company called Wherify Wireless in Redwood Shores, Calif., sells a satellite location device designed to be worn by young children.
