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Speaker 1: A Mount Monganuig business has created undersea drones that could

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Speaker 1: help protect seafloor cables from sabotage. Bay Dynamics, which makes

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Speaker 1: the drones, is just being acquired by another drone business

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Speaker 1: called Sios Aerospace, and SCIOs is chief executive Sam Via

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Speaker 1: is with us. Now, Hey Sam, hey, hey, they hate

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Speaker 1: them very well, thank you. So are you actually going

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Speaker 1: to use these drones to monitor what's going on with

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Speaker 1: the cables under the sea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so well, I mean that's obviously one application to it,

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Speaker 2: but certainly a very important application which we're seeing, you know,

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Speaker 2: a big global demand for.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Why what are we worried about? We are

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Speaker 1: we genuinely worried that sabotage is part of the grab

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Speaker 1: bag of things people might.

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Speaker 2: Do to us. Now, obviously, our market's global, not just

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, and certainly, you know, anyone watching the news

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Speaker 2: in Europe sees will see the potential sabotage and the

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Speaker 2: nervousness around the particularly in the EU, around potential sabotage

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Speaker 2: by hostile vessels or potentially vessels from some certain countries

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Speaker 2: that might accidentally drag, anchor or intentionally disrupt sea for infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: So who are you selling to?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so SIUs is a developer and manufacturer of uncrewed

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Speaker 2: vehicles or drones and robotics across both defense and the

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Speaker 2: civil sector. Predominantly are our customers. We have a number

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Speaker 2: of customers in Europe and you know, obviously we're a

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Speaker 2: New Zealand company, so we're now setting up on New

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Speaker 2: Zealand production facility to also offer the the same products

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Speaker 2: to the APAC region. And now obviously this acquisition of

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Speaker 2: a Dynamics adds another string to our bow by being

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Speaker 2: able to offer our customers also with sub surface vehicles.

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Speaker 1: Same. Thanks, it's first stuff man. Best of luck with

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