Students Q&A with Underwater Drone Experts
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting our local town Ayr Public School’s grade 5/6 class at our shop to teach students about Deep Trekker ROVs and what it’s like working in the field that we do. Eager to take every opportunity to engage in our community, we were thrilled when the school reached out to us asking for an afternoon lesson to enhance their social studies and global business curriculum. We started off the afternoon with a presentation about Deep Trekker ROVs, marketing, tradeshows, and travel. Everyone from the Deep Trekker team that was involved with the presentation were very impressed with the interest and amount of questions we received from the students.
Here are just a few of the many amazing questions we were asked.
“Does the depth rating come from the length of the tether or the pressure that the ROV can handle?”

“Why did you organize your products into packages?”
When we initially started out just selling the DTG2, we gave every customer the option of building their own packages. After some time it became clear that separating them into four packages (the Starter, Pro, Smart, and Worker) was an easier way to showcase the different aspects of our products and ensure that a customer is receiving all of the components that they need to perform a certain job. However, we still offer a number of additional accessories that can be added to customize the packages.“What are some of the import challenges you face when selling your products abroad?”
We have sold to over 70 countries worldwide, to a number of nations with different import regulations. In North America we are covered under NAFTA so exporting to the United States is generally not a challenge. As for the rest of the world, we have resellers in various countries that help us ensure that our products are being imported properly, we check in with agents specialized in dealing with imports in other countries, and ensure that our products are labelled properly (including all relevant paper work) when we ship them abroad.
“How did a company from the little town of Ayr, Ontario become known around the world?”
A lot of travel, demo days, writing editorials, exhibiting at trade shows, hard work, and a TON of enthusiasm.
“How does the pitching system work?”
