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April 2017

Contents

Volume 60 • Number 3

On the Cover

Digitization Offshore 26 The New Path 2626

From offshore wind to oil, the path toward a more sustainable offshore energy industry is in the cloud.

By Kira Coley

Voices 12 Sean Halpin

From a sunken ship on Penobscot

Bay to working with the world’s top oil and gas companies, Sean Halpin has always had a love and a career tied to the ocean.

Young Innovators 16

SeaPerch

More than 1,500 will gather in Atlanta for the Seventh National SeaPerch

Challenge, a gathering of some bright young minds and perhaps the future of subsea tech.

By Phil Kimball 16

Buoyancy 33 Deepwater Drilling SeaPerch © abhijith3747 / Adobe Stock

Riser Buoyancy

Software analysis and Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) for access to extreme conditions.

By Collin Gaskill

Work Class ROVs 38

Work Horses

ROVs increasingly perform a multitude of tasks. MTR looks at recent developments in the work class sector.

4 Editor’s Note 8 MarineTechnologyNews.com 10 People & Company News 38 Products: ROVs 46 MTR100 2017 3838 48 Advertiser’s Index Photo: Saipem 2017 April 2

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