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30MTRMay 2012As offshore activity continues to migrate into deeper waters and more remote locations, every aspect of explo- ration and development faces increasing challenges and levels of complexity. Most headlines on this subject are dominated by platform and riser technology evolution, the trend to next-generation drill ships, and augmenting production capabilities to include subsea processing. All of these involve incredibly complex solutions and will continue to revolutionize the industry; still, their applica- tion use and success will continue to rely on ROV evolu- tion that can keep pace and deploy those technologies into reality. Consider the basic challenge of physically placing anROV into the deep water areas necessary to perform its tasks. Where traditional WROV?s operate in waters around 2500 meters deep, today?s activity is increasingly Enabling Deepwater ROV Activity viaCabling By David J. Harris[Source: TE Connectivity] Figure 1 A typical umbilical cable is an armored assembly containing signal conductors, power conductors, and optical fibers. MTR#4 (18-33):MTR Layouts 4/27/2012 10:09 AM Page 30