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ble testing facilities, infrastructure, and the application area right at its fingertips.”

Three St. John’s-based companies presented on their underwater vehicle technology: GRI Simulations Inc.’s

VROV Field Development Kit,

Marport Deepsea Technologies Inc.’s

SQX-500 AUV, and Pangeo Subsea’s

Sub-Bottom Imager.

GRI Simulations’ (http://www.grisim.com/) VROV

Field Development Kit (FDK) sup- ports the design and development of subsea oil and gas fields, from site survey through design, construction, production and decommissioning.

Stephen Dodd, Vice President,

Operations & Business

Development, explains that the sys- tem builds on the high-fidelity dynamics and graphical capabilities of GRI Simulations’ VROV

Simulator, a training and rehearsal system for ROV pilots.

The FDK links GIS, bathymetry, and model databases to ensure that field design models are dimensionally correct and realistically situated. The 3D visualization incorporates pipeline routes, geological features, pipelines, trees, manifolds and other objects in the field. The same model is updated through the life of the project, and can be used for accessi- bility testing, flowline crossover detection, hazard identification, and mission rehearsal. When switched to the simulator mode, an ROV pilot- trainee can interact with the 3D pipe and other visualized equipment.

Currently in operation on interna- tional projects with two major oil companies, the FDK is being extend- ed to life of field support roles through embedded interfaces for his- torical documents and real-time data related to engineering analysis. www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 23 (L to R): Dean Steinke, Director of Operations, Dynamic Systems Analysis;

Stephen Dodd, VP, Operations & Business Development, GRI Simulations Inc; and Chris Collier, Principal Consultant, Hudson Solutions Group, LLC.