ONE of the pioneering deep water test facilities in the UK is marking a decade of being at the beating heart of innovation. The project to construct a 1.2 million litre Deep Recovery Facility at the Cumbria HQ of Forth Engineering was fraught with technical and financial challenges.
But a refusal to accept failure led to its eventual completion – and subsequent use for everything from the testing of a three-metre remote control whale, to complex underwater robots.
