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VIDEO: Caliente Fishing Team

CAPTAIN Arik Bergerman and his Caliente Fishing Team stack the deck with talent and technology.

The Caliente Fishing Team has competed in fishing tournaments for over 22 years throughout Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and up and down the Atlantic Coast. With Captain Arik Bergerman as a stable fixture at the helm, the team has included many incredible fishermen over the years.

“Fishing is a passion, and when you start winning, you start to search for the best people and the best equipment. You need to be fast and you need to use your time – the little time you have – with efficiency,” Bergerman said.

“The incredible fishing machine we run is a 39-foot Yellowfin powered by reliable quad 400 Mercury Marine Verados. The electronics and navigation systems are the latest technology from Raymarine and FLIR,”

“We do 24 tournaments a year and it’s important to have great equipment with you. The combination of Raymarine and FLIR is perfect and has definitely contributed to our record of success.” he said.

Team Caliente’s new Yellowfin relies on four Raymarine Axiom series multifunction displays (MFDs) to display the critical information that helps with safe navigation and catching fish. “We run an Axiom XL 24 at the helm, along with an Axiom Pro 12 and an Axiom Pro 9,” says Bergerman, who uses these units to display not only sonar and radar information, but also real-time video from four Raymarine CAM220 IP marine cameras and a FLIR M232 thermal camera.

“We can call up the views from any of these cameras on any Axiom screen and overlay AIS information in ClearCruise AR to immediately tell us what buoys or vessels we are looking at. The combination allows us to run with greatly increased safety day or night, and the view on the big Axiom XL 24 is like looking into a window at night,” said Arik, whose setup includes an additional Axiom Pro 16 mounted overhead and facing the cockpit, so the crew can easily see what’s happening around and below the vessel at any given second.

Team Caliente also utilises just about every other available situational awareness-enhancing Raymarine technology, including Evolution autopilot, Magnum radar and the full suite of Raymarine sonar channels, including CHIRP sonar, DownVision, SideVision, and RealVision 3D.

For more information: www.raymarine.com.au

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