Marine Environmental Projects in the CRD.

https://victoriaairphotos.com/marine-environmental.html 

To practice new solutions dealing with the maritime environmental safety and biological issues plaguing our local waters and beaches.

We specialize in difficult to reach areas and islets using RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems with Advanced Pilot) technology with other special techniques to detect, assess and remove these environmental hazards.

VAP's recent Salish Sea Project detected detected, documented and removed various marine debris. High quality data was gathered. VAP offers contract and volunteer services for these environmental services.

While our primary mission is photography, survey & documentation, we also wade ashore to retrieve items including buoys and other debris and take a closer look. We will also coordinate and manage a process to remove boats from the beaches. 

Our Actions:

At VAP we are concerned with the marine environment and want to help in various ways. We use education, skills and proper training and equipment. We want to help clean this mess and we need your help!

We are partnering with volunteer, community organizations, contractors and with government oversite.  

 

About us:

Our RPAS (Both M300 and DJI Phantom 4/ MAVIC Thermal Drones) produce very high-resolution imagery both in RGB and Thermal.

RPAS flights are preauthorized by Nav Canada in our flight areas noted. RPAS Advanced pilot Carlos has over 3500 hours of flight time since 2012. Our M300 drone is equipped with floats for enhanced safety.

We are currently looking at ways of using the drone logistics to sling plastic debris off beaches to help save time, costs while improving safety of crews.

The Small Vessel owned and operated by VAP is perfect for our beach clean-up efforts. It is equipped with HR depth sounders and GPS Maps/charts, VHF Radios, 2 anchors and a T/O/ landing area. and other equipment. Power comes from a hyper-efficient, economical, EFI Yamaha 4-stroke engine.

Crew are Transport Canada commercial SVOP/ and MED Lifeboatman Qualified and trained, with years of experience in the marine environment including as fishing guide, as deckhand on BC Ferries and serving on Coast Guard vessels.