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AURA

"The Bigger the Mark, the Better the Chance"

When someone goes overboard, rescue timelines are measured in minutes (not hours) and most of those minutes unfold in darkness or severely impaired visibility. Many overboard incidents occur at night, during storms, or amid fog, spray, and rough seas, where contrast disappears and traditional visual aids fail.

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Fluorescent dyes are effective in clear daylight, but they vanish when the sun does leaving rescuers searching in the exact conditions where visibility matters most.

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BioGlo AURA™ is a manual or automatically activated dye-dispersal signaling system engineered to provide immediate, high-contrast surface visibility the moment it is deployed or immersed by creating a visible marker in the water itself.

 

No batteries.
No electronics.
No reliance on what the person is wearing.

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* Actual product may vary in design

What is AURA?

SOLA™ is a standalone dye-based rescue visibility system designed to rapidly mark the water surface around a person, object, or incident location.
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SOLA is deployable across multiple formats, including:
  • Wearable canisters
  • Belt-mounted or harness-mounted devices
  • Throwable or deployable markers
  • Integrated safety gear and survival kits
  • Aviation and marine emergency equipment
 
SOLA remains sealed and dormant during storage.
 
Upon manual activation or automatic water contact, the system releases a high-visibility bioluminescent dye plume.
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The result:
A large, unmistakable visual marker on the water surface that can be detected by boats, aircraft, UAVs, and shoreline responders, even in glare, waves, fog, rain, or heavy seas.

Why AURA Exists?

In many real-world emergencies, there is nothing visible to look for.
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  • Current manual fluorescent dye markers do not provide illumination for nighttime or reduced-visibility conditions
  • Clothing offers no surface-level visibility
  • Small point lights disappear in daylight, chop, and glare
  • Victims and debris are easily lost in open water
 
When an unexpected water entry occurs, visibility must move from the person to the environment itself.  Conventional dye markers and signaling devices fall short:
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  • Short-lived dispersion
  • Manual activation only
  • Daylight only usefulness
  • No integration with modern rescue workflows
 
SOLA™ creates a visible target in the water where rescuers are already looking.

How AURA works?

  1. Deployment or immersion occurs.
    The device is thrown, worn, manually or automatically activated upon water contact.

  2. Manual or automatic activation triggers SOLA. Mechanical valves, water-soluble barriers, or pressure-based triggers release the dye... no batteries, no electronics.

  3. Dye dispersal begins immediately.
    A high-contrast bioluminescent dye plume spreads across the surface, forming a visible halo or trail.

  4. Surface visibility is established.
    The water itself becomes the signal clearly detectable from air, sea, and shore.

 

The surrounding water becomes a visible rescue marker, detectable from every angle​

Key Advantages

Environmental Visibility
  • Marks the water, not just the person
  • Highly visible in nighttime, fog, glare, and rough seas
  • Detectable by aircraft, drones, and vessels
 
Manual or Autonomous Deployment
  • User-activated or water-activated options
  • No batteries
  • No electronics
  • No dependence on consciousness
 
Scalable & Flexible
  • Wearable, throwable, or integrated formats
  • Suitable for individuals, vessels, or mass-casualty scenarios
  • Compatible with marine, aviation, and industrial safety systems
 
Harsh-Environment Reliable
  • Functions in saltwater, cold water, and heavy seas
  • No electrical failure modes
  • Long shelf life
  • Designed for government, commercial, and rescue use

Designed for Real-World Rescue

 

SOLA™ is built for scenarios where surface-level visibility saves lives:

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  • Daylight AND nighttime man-overboard events

  • Aviation ditching and debris fields

  • Offshore and industrial incidents

  • Flood and mass-rescue scenarios

  • UAV-assisted and aerial search operations

 

The system assumes no ideal conditions and no guaranteed user action because real rescues never do.

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Visibility, Released

BioGlo SOLA™ turns the water itself into the signal providing large-area, unmistakable visibility when clothing, lights, or flotation aren’t enough.

It is the fastest way to establish a visual reference point in open water.​​

Interested in Deployment Formats, Fleet Programs, or Certification Alignment?

Contact BioGlo Scientific to discuss configurations, activation logic, and pilot evaluations.

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