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DOE Debuts Phantom T5 ROV

Deep Ocean Engineering (DOE) revealed the newest ad- dition to its family of underwater drones, the Phantom T5

ROV, which is designed to be a powerful, rugged, reliable, portable and easily expandable system. According to DOE, applications for the Phantom T5 span a broad spectrum: • Homeland Security: Defense, Military, Customs, Police • Hydroelectric System Monitoring • Infrastructure Inspections: Bridges, Tunnels, Pipelines, Ships • Scienti? c Research: Geology, Biology, Archeology • Exploration: Oil and Gas, Salvage, S&R • Cinematography: Videos, Photos, Film “The Phantom T5 open-frame architecture makes mechan- ical integrations a breeze, while the dedicated expansion bulkhead connectors, used for both power and telemetry, are provided as standard,” said John Bergman, Deep Ocean

Engineering, Vice President of Engineering. “In addition, an optional tool skid allows the customer to “bolt on” their sensors or tools by plugging into the expansion bulkhead connectors for nearly limitless, task-speci? c, expansion pos- sibilities.”

Ben Kinnaman, President and CEO of Greensea Systems,

Inc., said “Their (Deep Ocean Engineering) engineers are top-tier, and we were happy to work with such a strong, re- silient, and rugged vehicle. We know that integrating any of our navigation, control, and autonomy packages on their

ROVs will result in high performance and increased capa- bilities.”

Standard Phantom T5 features: • Full HD video (1080i & 0.35 lux) with 20X optical zoom, on-screen videographic overlay mounted on a tilt platform with angle feedback • 300m depth rating (500m optional), LED Lights, and two person portability (39 kg / 86 lbs. dry weight) • User accessible power/telemetry bulkheads and open frame architecture for facilitated expansion • Minimal topside footprint for rapid deployment • high performance, magnetically coupled thrusters (highest thrust to weight ratio and reliability of any

ROV in its class • Resilient, non-corroding polypropylene chassis • Maintenance-free auto-functions available (includ- ing auto-heading, auto-depth, auto-stabilize and auto-altitude) www.marinetechnologynews.com

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