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ROV Technology Interview

DOE’s Bergman, Sabo & Takeda

Deep Ocean Engineering

Last month MTR sat with Deep Ocean Engineering – Robert Sabo, President & Corporate

Secretary; John Bergman, Vice President of Engineering; and Mike Takeda, Director of Operations – to discuss recent advances in the ? eld of ROV out? t and operation.

By Greg Trauthwein

For our readers not familiar with Deep Ocean Engineer- fornia. Deep Ocean has been in operation for over 30 years ing, please provide a brief company history as well as in- and has sold more than 600 ROV systems in over 30 countries formation that give them the size, scope and depth of your worldwide. Deep Ocean’s ROV systems have been used in a current product line and operations. broad range of industry applications - military, security, sal- vage, long tunnel and pipeline inspection, customs, nuclear

Takeda and hydroelectric power plants, dams and lakes, offshore oil

Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc. is a privately owned small busi- and gas servicing, scienti? c research and education, ? sheries ness founded in 1982 and is incorporated in California. Deep and broadcast ? lming. Customers include the military organi-

Ocean Engineering is a technology-based engineering and zations of twenty-? ve (25) countries (including the U.S. Navy, manufacturing company that provides integrated robotic solu- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Explosive Ordinance Disposal, tions for various underwater applications in harsh and diverse Naval Facilities Engineering and Service Center and Army operating environments. Deep Ocean designs, builds and tests Corps of Engineers), the FBI, Canadian Defense, UK Cus- its remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from its plant in Cali- toms, various utility power companies, science, law enforce-

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