Ron Allum Deepsea Services (RADS) is a 100% Australian owned company that designs, builds and tests specialist underwater systems capable of operating in the deepest, most remote points on the planet.
Founded in 2013 and based in Taren Point NSW, RADS has built a reputation as being a reliable, adaptable and responsive sovereign capability. RADS unique solutions include energy storage and distribution, variable ballast systems, thruster motors, pumps and gearboxes along with fibre-optic, electrical and mechanical terminations/connections and penetrations.
These products, together with our control networks (comprising hardware, firmware, and software solutions), mean our engineering team is uniquely placed to design and build systems that are tailored to underwater vehicles with challenging payload, tasking and operating depth and endurance requirements.
RADS founder, Ron Allum, commenced work on Deepsea Challenger in 2005, researching and overseeing the building of the pressure sphere that forms its core. He then went on to develop a unique formula for syntactic foam, Isofloat®, which provided Deepsea Challenger’s chassis and flotation.
Ron's pressure-balanced, fluid filled electronic systems and other innovative ideas kept the submersible's weight to a minimum while maximizing its ability to do science and imaging work in the world's deepest spots.
Our sister company, Ron Allum Deepsea Systems, has the exclusive Australian license and non-exclusive worldwide license to manufacture Isofloat®.
Deep Ray is a novel high-performance autonomous undersea glider based on a hydrodynamically efficient flying wing configuration. With an intended range exceeding 2500 km (1350Nm) and extremely low self-noise, Deep Ray is proposed as an autonomous system for front-line remote area undersea acoustic surveillance. RADS delivered a Deep Ray Demonstrator to Defence on 23 November 2020.
The Hadal Water Column Profiler (HWCP) is a multidisciplinary 11-km depth rated free-falling profiler which gathers a range of scientific data. It also records video and carries a water sampler. Even for 11 km depths, the HWCP is capable of several profiles a day.
The HWCP design and build is the result of a highly successful collaboration between a team of scientists, engineers and technicians from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Ron Allum Deepsea Services, who provided floatation, pressure tolerant batteries and vehicle design, and Rockland Scientific International who provided the custom turbulent microstructure instrumentation.
RADS has provided vehicle design, manufacture and testing and engineering support to Australian and overseas primes on their AUV programs. Projects range from small AUVs to tailored in-board systems for Extra Large AUVs.
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