Port Everglades is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world and a leading container port in Florida. It is among the most active cargo ports in the United States with more than 5,300 ships calling at the Port in a year, and the Port handling over 23 million tons of liquid, bulk and containerized cargoes. The UIS(TM) which includes the Echoscope? real-time 3D sonar will be used by the Port for, among other things, underwater inspections of piers and critical infrastructure, vessel hull surveys and harbor surveys to ensure safety of navigation including after hurricanes and other events.

Our President of Technology, Blair Cunningham said: "we are very pleased to welcome Port Everglades to our community of UIS(TM) users. The Coda Octopus UIS(TM) is proving its value in ports globally. With its Echoscope? real-time 3D capabilities it yields significant cost and time savings by enabling operators to see underwater objects in zero visibility conditions immediately. This allows immediate decision making. Moreover, using this technology, a port can inspect a 1000 foot pier in minutes compared to several hours by a team of divers. The direct result is a significant increase in confidence for those providing Port Security."

About Coda Octopus Group, Inc.

Originally founded in 1994 as Coda Technologies, the Coda Octopus Group is now headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. The Group consists of a Marine Products business located in Lakeland, Florida, Edinburgh, Scotland and Bergen, Norway, and engineering businesses, Coda Octopus Colmek in Salt Lake City, Utah and Coda Octopus Martech in Weymouth, England. Each of the Group companies are technology innovators with a particularly high level of sonar expertise. The Group has facilities in Florida, Utah, the UK and Norway.

Alongside providing custom engineering and development for defense applications, one of the Group's key products is the Coda Octopus Echoscope? - the world's first real time patented 3D sub-sea sonar. The Echoscope? is also at the heart of the Underwater Inspection System(TM), which is being adopted for homeland security, and other applications in ports around the world.

With this patented revolutionizing sub-sea visualization capability, and the existing systems integration skills within the Group, the Coda Octopus Group believes it can become a world leading integrated sonar technology supplier.

For further information, please visit http://www.codaoctopusgroup.com or contact Coda Octopus at info@codaoctopusgroup.com.

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