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Happy World Ocean Day! At Boxfish Research we believe that raising awareness and understanding of the ocean and marine environment is important for our planet’s future. Boxfish Research designs and…

Boxfish Research together with DIVE New Zealand + DIVE Pacific magazine will be at 2021 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show on May 13-16, 2021. We will exhibit our industry-leading advanced…

Boxfish Research designs and manufactures industry leading, actively stabilised, ultra-high definition underwater ROVs and AUVs for submerged asset inspection, defence & security, marine science, energy, aquaculture, police and search &…

The next-generation Boxfish underwater drone for filmmaking delivers full-frame, 8K video from 1,000 metres deep 2nd March, 2021 – Auckland, New Zealand – Boxfish Research, New Zealand manufacturer of underwater…

Boxfish team recently went out to one of the world’s best diving spots Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve on a sea trial of the new features of the Boxfish ROV…

This year, Boxfish Research has decided to celebrate Christmas a little differently with the gift of impact in mind.  We wanted to say thank you to our dedicated partners by…

AUCKLAND – December 1, 2020 – Boxfish Research announces record breaking depth range during its latest deep sea mission in New Zealand. This is the first underwater deployment conducted by…

What does the Boxfish ROV allow marine scientists to do that they couldn’t do before? Check out the industry experts Dr Regina Eisert – @TPAonIce, Andrew Wright from Fisheries and…

Boxfish Research began after a chance meeting between three engineers who happened to be trialing home built ROV’s (remotely operated vehicle) at the same time and location in Auckland, NZ….

Boxfish Research is attending Water New Zealand Conference & Expo – the largest water and wastewater event in New Zealand with the main goal to find new industry partners. The…

We want to keep our personalised customer trainings going, with a worldwide pandemic, we’ve taken it online. That is why this year we launched our online customer training program. Check…

Ian Schipper, a volcanologist at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington gave us an interview about Waka Lab project of analysing and collection of volcanic gases from submarine volcanoes using…

Boxfish 360 has been featured in the recent LA MINA – The Discovery by El Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo (CINDAQ) and INAH Arqueología Subacuática Península de…

The SS Ventnor carrying the bodies of 501 Chinese men, mostly gold miners, from New Zealand back to China, sank off the Hokianga Heads after striking a reef near Taranaki…

This week Boxfish Research’s co-founder Ben King will be speaking about remote imaging for monitoring wildlife and habitat in Antarctica using the Boxfish ROV at the Wildlife Technology Online Conference….

Dr Regina Eisert’s team has captured a number of outstanding videos of underwater mammals using different equipment including underwater virtual reality camera Boxfish 360 during Antarctica 2020 summer expedition. Check…

Boxfish Research continues all of business operations, including manufacturing, running without severe interruption during COVID-19 pandemic. We have excellent online systems and communications which allow us to continue manufacturing and…

Unique Group and Boxfish Research announced a new authorized reseller partnership, bringing Boxfish Research’s underwater remote operated vehicle Boxfish ROV to Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Boxfish Research is based…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to explore the remote depths of the ocean? Boxfish Research’s very own Mechatronics R&D Engineer and ROV pilot – Douglas Grant…

Especially for those who interested in professional underwater videography and photography, Boxfish released Boxfish Cinematic ROV for professionals with up to 15 stops of dynamic range, 10-bit LOG recording and…

This season was different from Dr Regina Eisert’s summer expedition 2019 but we gathered a lot of footage and started Boxfish Antarctica Series that reveals underwater sea life of the…

Auckland, New Zealand – August 8, 2019 Boxfish Research is bringing its innovative, underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to Tasmania’s high-tech underwater industries. Until recently, divers have formed the backbone…

One of the earliest tourism attractions of New Zealand – the Pink Terraces, located in the Waimangu Valley – were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886 and…

Rodolphe Holler owner of Tahiti Private Expeditions, wants to show the world how he uses the Boxfish ROV, and show the world what he does! Here he has filmed a…

It was a cold night in New Zealand, but the interest, the questions, the endless ideas and the enthusiasm from the NZ Cinematographers was heartwarming…

Hazardous and murky conditions in our ports and marinas can make it challenging for divers to carry out important biosecurity inspections for introduced pest species. NIWA scientists are pioneering the…

MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union’s Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. It was later converted into…

Kiwi Robotics Company now Distributing in Japan ·     Boxfish Research has made its first sale into Japan to Japanese distributor Cosmos Shoji. ·     Trainer Russel Hughes…

Boxfish ROV’s highlights from the 2019 Antarctic season where Boxfish Research teamed up with Dr. Regina Eisert from the Top Predator Alliance to support her work studying the mammals in…

We were invited by New Zealand’s largest seafood company, Sanford, to showcase the world under the surface of our oceans to visitors at the Ports of Auckland Seeport Festival 2019….